Y the X Tape?

Here's something you won't get from "he said/she said" television news. Randy David offers a likely motive for Chavit's X tape and points out the differences between the Erap and Hello Garci conversations.

Conversations: normal and faked by Randy David.

THE SO-CALLED "X-tape" that Ilocos Gov. Luis "Chavit" Singson has brought to the public's attention, which supposedly implicates former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada in a plot to assassinate President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, seems so patently fabricated he cannot possibly think people would swallow it. Its real intent must lie elsewhere.

My view is that the Chavit tape simply aims to show that real voices can be lifted from an original source and then mixed with other voices to simulate a conversation that in fact never took place. Thus, the public is prompted to suspend its belief in the authenticity of any recorded conversation -- including the ones alleged between President Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. This is invalidation by contamination.