Likewise, Calvin Trillin wrote a piece during the Carter Administration in the style of Mencken about a "Godly Southern farmer" with a "Bible-thunping sister." It was so well written that it was accepted as a recently-discovered work which just happened to fit well with Carter and family. It took Trillin a while to knock down the success of his parody, even after he confessed in front of God and everybody.
It would be clever if the Killian memos were a stunt that somehow got loose. But that would violate Occam's razor.
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> It would be clever if the Killian memos were a stunt that
> somehow got loose. But that would violate Occam's razor.
Well, we now have a whole TV series "Mythbusters" devoted
to stomping out this kind of thing, but I agree with you
that "inept deliberate Dem fraud" is a simpler explanation
than "escaped prank".
We certainly have no shortage of motivated and more than
sufficiently incompetent Dem hacks who could have
authored these memos using supporting props from the
real Bush ANG jacket.