Hi, Knucklehead. Guess what, some Powerline readers also read rogerlsimon. There’s no triumphalism, scoop or gotcha involved with the post in question. My son is Powerline’s correspondent. The post is the result of his sense of right and wrong, which had to be kneaded through several days of wrestling with the ethics of relaying the conversations. He finally accepted that the report will end the friendship with Mr. Strong, whom he has known for 20 years, but he takes cold comfort that being convinced of the forgeries, and thus the ethics of the whole Rathergate show, with the stakes involved he had no choice. He’s not named, and will get nothing for it but exterior grief, and what interior comfort comes from one of those moments arriving when he had to take either the easy way or the hard, and he took the hard, because it would do more good for more people. It’s “sacrifice”, far more alien to my boomer gen than his twentysomethings. Jeez, forgive the unmeant melodrama! And Powerline did do due diligence, via exchanged (thus web verifiable) phone calls featuring a close questioning of address and CV. To that end also, I sent weblinks to published info on our small business, thus achieving a Ratherian preponderance of verification. Well, enjoyed your post, and I agree with you, many things in this world exhaust the handlers before the handlers have exhausted them; that’s where the whimpers come from when things won’t end with a bang!