Who Do You Trust?

I don't have anything new or intelligent to add about the Eric Alterman column on John "Thumb" Fund and the response to it from Media Whores Online. But, since I can't find anything else to write about, here's my thought.

Alterman writes:

Over the past few weeks, I've received a set of documents from a close friend of Fund's--now posted on the Internet--that demonstrate to almost any fair-minded person that Fund is probably the victim of a deeply disturbed person.

Fair enough. If the documents are exculpatory to any fair-minded person, and they're on the 'net, why not link to them and let fair-minded people decide for themselves.

I'd also love to see the transcript from the deposition Fund had to give (the one he was bitching about to Brit Hume), just for comparison's sake. If Fund's evidence consists entirely of the accusation that his accuser is not credible, don't we need to examine the credibility of Fund before deciding who to believe? And if Fund's work "would fill a 'how not to' book for journalism schools across the land," as Dr. A. says, why is he any more credible than his ex-girlfriend?

Update (5/20): Eric Alterman, no doubt heeding this site's call for maximum disclosure, provides a link to his source material. Now, does anyone have the transcript of Fund's deposition testimony from the Blumenthal case?

And here's reader reaction to the Alterman column at the Horse.