21-07-2012, 04:46 PM
The thing is, Waldron works hard to get on these shows.
And unfortunately, they actually book him.
But the worst part is, no one challenges him.
When Lamar is challenged he gets tense, personal, and defensive. I know this since I have seen him up close in that situation. He also gets evasive and dishonest.
My personal opinion as to why he does this is that he doesn't even trust his own data. Which is why he inflates it and misrepresents it.
For instance, in Ultimate Sacrifice, he footnotes the Bolden stuff to, not Edwin Black, but to George Black. With no page numbers. When I asked him about this, he said it was the "footnote editor". I have never heard of a footnote editor. But we are supposed to believe that the footnote editor did not notice there were no page numbers next to a whole series of footnotes.
Or that when Lamar got back the galleys, he did not notice that either.
Sure.
Lamar then said that the Black article was on line. The reason it was on line is that I pointed out this trick in Waldron's book. And then people asked me for the article which I got from Jim Douglass. If left up to Waldron, no one would ever have known the proper source.
And unfortunately, they actually book him.
But the worst part is, no one challenges him.
When Lamar is challenged he gets tense, personal, and defensive. I know this since I have seen him up close in that situation. He also gets evasive and dishonest.
My personal opinion as to why he does this is that he doesn't even trust his own data. Which is why he inflates it and misrepresents it.
For instance, in Ultimate Sacrifice, he footnotes the Bolden stuff to, not Edwin Black, but to George Black. With no page numbers. When I asked him about this, he said it was the "footnote editor". I have never heard of a footnote editor. But we are supposed to believe that the footnote editor did not notice there were no page numbers next to a whole series of footnotes.
Or that when Lamar got back the galleys, he did not notice that either.
Sure.
Lamar then said that the Black article was on line. The reason it was on line is that I pointed out this trick in Waldron's book. And then people asked me for the article which I got from Jim Douglass. If left up to Waldron, no one would ever have known the proper source.