I never was good on the tightrope. I wanna mash a bug!
Ohh .. I'll take the evil side of that for 100, Alex. The sentiment I was trying to express was that FReepers might be incorrecty picking on Hays as the author of the lie (hey, we all make mistakes), but in the end, that error should not be significant. At worst, it shows inattention to detail.
I advocate putting heat on all of them, knowing that the heat is incorrectly placed on all but one.
The nit I am picking is that letters to AP and Hays would be more powerful if rooted in fact. E.g. "One of your reporters authored a lie" can't be refuted -- but "Hays authored a lie" might be.