by Haruo » Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:13 pm
I haven't had a chance to really research either the Northam or the Fairfax stories, but the thing that worries me about Northam much more than the pictures on his yearbook page (regardless of whether he is or is not one of the guys in costume) is why (at least as I have seen it reported) he first admitted it was him and then later denied it was him. I don't know exactly what it was he was trying to admit initially, nor whether or not that is the same thing that he later tried to deny. If it's the same thing (Is this you in this photo here? Yes. Next day: Is this you in this [same] photo here? No.) then I think that says more about his fitness to be governor than anything he may have done in 1984. I don't know if it means he's loony, or that he's dumb enough to think that you can do that sort of retraction, or what. But I'm not at all sure that what he said "Yes" to one day was the exact same question he said "No" to the next day. I don't have enough computer access time to track such things down and still accomplish anything in my life and keep my wife fed, so I'm unlikely to ever know unless a story I happen to see on Google News addresses and answers (clearly) my question. Or if somebody here does.
I can imagine him saying "Yes" meaning "Yes, that's my page, and I had a hand in its composition" but "No, the individuals in costume there are neither of them me." But I don't know, and the world of algorithm-driven sound bites and journalistic biases makes it hard to know if I ever will.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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