On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 9:10:11 PM UTC-4, bigdog wrote:
There is no question about it. Posner's research is sloppy. I just looked
at his potboiler last night, and he's telling the story like a novel, as
if he is the author and he knows everything. He does have footnotes, and
presumably they support what he says. But still, taking somebody's
account, and then using it as if it is fact6 is very sloppy. One example,
in his narration he says that Oswald was brought to the police station
just after 2 o'clock, and then was taken to a third floor interrogation
room. Then, in the interrogation room, the police still don't know whether
he's Hidell or Oswald. But this cannot be true. We have a film showing
Oswald being brought into the interrogation room, and there's a weird coat
rack/clock right there, and it's 2 O'Clock on the button. He had to have
arrived at the station shortly before 2. This is a minor detail, but when
you are reciting specific facts, they ought to be correct, no? And we know
that Jack Dougherty and Billy Lovelady and Danny Arce and William Shelley
were all there, either in the Squad Room Oswald was walked through, or in
that very interrogation room, when Oswald was brought in, and that they
identified him to the police. So, they already knew who he was when they
sat him down in the interrogation room. Yet, Posner, has Guy Rose come in
and ask Oswald who he really is. Posner tells a story with incorrect
details as if he knows it all. Like a lawyer would. And being a Wall
Street lawyer, Posner of course supports the Official Story. He doesn't
care about the truth. Like Bugliosi, he is simply trying to scam the jury.
His sources may support what he says, but they are wrong if they do. This
sort of storytelling is extremely arrogant when applied to history, and
should be restricted to fiction, where the author has the authority to
create the facts. By providing an omniscient narration, Posner conditions
his readers to accept that he knows what happened, when he obviously does
not. He is no more an authority on the matter than you or I, certainly no
more than I.