I am certain Darren is pleased that I've stopped visiting Darren's Personal Board, but since it is one of the most frequented SI boards, I wanted to float an idea that should gain some currency:
All these "tapes" that are audio-only that are then "authenticated" as "genuine"...
Isn't it possible to take a "library" of sound bites, previously recorded at one sitting (<important) with a variety of specifics and generalizations of topics, and put together a recording to create a specific message?? Then you =play=the=tape= that you've cobbled together, in a room, and record via microphone the "cobbled" tape, so it sounds seamless and specific? Why else, in this age where very very very good recording equipment can be easily purchased for a small amount of money, would such terrible-quality tapes always surface. And no video, either? With camcorders so cheap?
Our government should just dismiss =every= one of these "surfaced" tapes as "100% bogus fabrications" and not give them one percent chance of "authentic" so long as there is no accompanying video. I mean, are these tapes under some sort of "court order"...i.e. "authentic until proven phony"?
New catch phrase, al-jazeera: "No Video, All Phony". |
