I’ve said it before. Here it comes again:
STB’s slanders and libels included accusations which could be detected as bogus by soldiers and other normal people.
STB himself would have known that what he wrote was impossible on a physical basis, or improbable as a matter of military structure and the behavior of soldiers, not to mention easily checked. Not to mention easily checked.
He also would have known that TNR would swallow this stuff wholesale, only to be busted before the ink was dry by the aforementioned soldiers and other normal people.
Motivation (which is screwy and impenetrable) aside, if he’d wanted to take down TNR, how could he have done it better?
The question which interests me is why he didn’t make up stuff that wouldn’t have been so easily refuted.
