Sooner or later "Son of Texas Air National Guard Memo" will emerge as disinfo
Rumors on Twitter from all kinds of folks are fun to indulge in.
Things which are conjectured or suspected, may indeed be true.
Speculation is a valuable tool in developing hypotheses which can be tested against facts. That's certainly a good thing.
However, believing that something is likely, coupled with the desire to believe it to be true, can lead to unfortunate consequences.
I have seen attempts in various phases of the campaign, and now this horrific maladministration, to get folks to "bite" on suspect information.
There is extremely fertile ground now in which to plant something that everyone wants to be true, but the falsity of whatever the shiny object happens to be, won't be made apparent until a lot of people have taken a big bite on it.
Jumping on to things which are not supported by facts, and require a buttload of conjecture to fill in the gaps, does not prove anyone to be "smart" if whatever it is does turn out to be correct. It simply proves that one is gullible and lucky.
For example, a few days from now when we are all agape at a grainy video of unknown origin of a fat blond guy being peed on, or whatever sensational thing emerges, do try to remember that absent a definite origin of the video, etc., that being peed on is not actually a crime in the first place. So when it turns out to be a fuzzy version of some existing porn video, and those promoting it as "proof" of something are thus discredited, please remember how the Texas Air National Guard Memo managed to suck all of the oxygen out of the legitimate allegation that W shirked his duty to do political work and get drunk for long periods of time.
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