Recce By Death said:
MattSanchez,
Mind responding to the allegations....or are you going to ignore them...thus painting yourself as a troll.
The Milnet.ca Staff
As the creator of cplsanchez.info, which while it doesn't shy away from having opinions is nonetheless the definitive repository of all things Matt Sanchez, I am committed to the accuracy of all assertions of fact published there. My view is that everyone gets to have an opinion but that there's only one set of facts. Or, to put it differently, someone who doesn't argue from the facts is blowing smoke.
That can be a harsh view, and runs the risk of self-righteousness, but there's no reward without risk so I'll accept the risk. In this case, the reward isn't financial. The reward is to tell the truth about someone to whom the truth is a foreign concept. Call it a character flaw, but I really like to tell the truth in cases like this one.
I have repeatedly asked and challenged Sanchez to dispute any factual inaccuracies on cplsanchez.info. He has offered little but personal attacks in response. This is probably because the site itself -- as opposed to some of the material on the discussion board there, which is a bit freer swinging -- is very thoroughly researched. I am a former journalist whose work was nationally recognized for its high quality. I know the difference between fact and opinion, and I can quote the law of libel in great detail. I figured that, if I was going to create the site, that if nothing else I'd make sure that the facts are bulletproof. Trust me, Mr. Sanchez has met his match, and he knows it.
Thus, when I assert that he's appeared in 39 porn videos, that's not something I dreamed up. It's been reported elsewhere. When I assert that he was a male prostitute between 1999 and 2002, and almost certainly throughout 2004, that's not something I invented. The specific evidence is linked on the site. When I tell you he left the USMCR because of a "medical problem," I didn't pluck it out of thin air. It was reported in the
Marine Corps Times. And so on. I'm telling you this not to extend the argument here, but to let you and your readers know that, if Sanchez responds here, he'll almost certainly do it in the form of personal attacks devoid of factual content.
That's all he can do, because he really doesn't have any facts on his side, to speak of. In what passes for political discourse among the American right wing these days, facts are regarded with suspicion and often outright hostility. It's much easier to attack your opponent than it is to rebut his assertions of fact. In today's media, opinions are cheap and facts are expensive, so we're served a lot of opinions and not a lot of facts.
Here's an example of Sanchez's response to a challenge for factual criticisms of the material on my site:
http://forum.cplsanchez.info/user/Discussion.aspx?id=45939
Let me try putting this a different way: Generally speaking, I find Canadians to be pretty reasonable people who try to give a fair hearing to just about everyone and then seek a way to split the difference. It's something I admire about Canadian society. But there are people who abuse that good faith. Sanchez is one of them. I'm not going to arrogate to myself the right to tell anyone here what to think. Rather, I'll offer a general suggestion that occasionally "splitting the difference" entails awarding 99.9% of the argument to one view, and 0.1% of it to the other view.
