Tuesday, September 21, 2004

"Lucy Ramirez" ... Burkett code for "DNC"

Well, well, well. Bill Burkett has yet another story about where he got the documents. In today's version Bill got them form "Lucy Ramirez". Oddly enough, nobody seems to be able to find "Lucy Ramirez". Not just Lucy, but any evidence that she exists. (Although word (no pun intended) has it that Dan Rather has some early 70's memos that prove she does.)

"Lucy Ramirez" is just the kind of person the anti-Bush crowd needs: someone who can't be reached for any kind of verification. Because everyone else they've trotted out as "proof" that Bush is responsible for both World Wars, poverty, and the Black Plague ends up either a) stating that the Lefties are lying, or b) demonstrating themselves to be so dishonest that they do more harm than good to the Democrats.

"Lucy Ramirez" won't give the Kerry Crowd those kinds of problems. She'll give them much bigger ones. Because as soon as it becomes clear that Burkett has moved on from conspiring in forging documents to conspiring in forging whole people (that is, in about three days) everyone is going to realize that "Lucy Ramirez" is Burkett-speak for "DNC".

What Bill Burkett doesn't seem to realize is that after admitting to telling lies about his source the first time through, his credibility the second time through leaves something to be desired. He could have just said that Hitler gave him the memos, but since he's already on record as saying that Bush is Hitler, that won't quite work.

Of course it's possible that the unknown, but eerily convenient "Lucy Ramirez" really does exist. But by application of Occam's Razor...