Originally posted by Green PaladinYou are letting your imagination run wild with speculations.
Actually, there's a contradiction above, the resolution of which casts the patriarch in an even poorer light. The image was doctored on Saturday the 31st of March, the interview took place the next day (Sunday, April Fools'😉, the ruse was discovered on Wednesday the 4th of April, and the patriarchate's acknowledgement of deception on Thursday the 5th o ...[text shortened]... pril. No wonder the patriarch could enjoy such confidence. The image had already been fudged!
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Originally posted by Green PaladinI probably can not explain it so you can understand, so I'll just let it go and you
What "speculations"? Where has my "imagination run wild"?
can believe wha ever you want. It is not going to make any difference to the
Patriarch what you believe. So have fun with whatever you wish to imagine.
Originally posted by Green PaladinI am still confused on chronology. He made statements to the effect that he did not wear the watch before the scandal of the image-doctoring was publicised in the blogosphere?
Actually, there's a contradiction above, the resolution of which casts the patriarch in an even poorer light. The image was doctored on Saturday the 31st of March, the interview took place the next day (Sunday, April Fools'😉, the ruse was discovered on Wednesday the 4th of April, and the patriarchate's acknowledgement of deception on Thursday the 5th o ...[text shortened]... pril. No wonder the patriarch could enjoy such confidence. The image had already been fudged!
Originally posted by Conrau KYes, as the quote on the previous page makes clear.
I am still confused on chronology. He made statements to the effect that he did not wear the watch before the scandal of the image-doctoring was publicised in the blogosphere?
"Coincidentally, the patriarch addressed the watch issue on Sunday, three days before the photo-doctoring scandal hit the blogosphere, in an interview with a prominent Kremlin-friendly television journalist, Vladimir Solovyov ... Sorting through gifts he had received over the years, the patriarch discovered that he did indeed own the Breguet, Mr. Solovyov said. But he insisted that he had never worn it and said he suspected that any photos of him wearing it had been altered with Photoshop [my emphasis]."