Michael Tracey

So it's not like I'm trying to avoid anything or be at all evasive, right?

So it's not like I'm trying to avoid anything or be at all evasive, right?

So people ask me all the time, okay, how did he make his money?

So people ask me all the time, okay, how did he make his money?

What about Leslie Wexner, et cetera, et cetera.

What about Leslie Wexner, et cetera, et cetera.

So it's not like I'm unaccustomed to addressing any of this stuff.

So it's not like I'm unaccustomed to addressing any of this stuff.

It's just that I feel like there's a bit of a fallacy or a logical flaw in attempting to say that it's incumbent on me to proffer some kind of ultimate totalizing theory.

It's just that I feel like there's a bit of a fallacy or a logical flaw in attempting to say that it's incumbent on me to proffer some kind of ultimate totalizing theory.

I have a theory I could sketch out that maybe explains some of what people would like to know that people are so titillated by.

I have a theory I could sketch out that maybe explains some of what people would like to know that people are so titillated by.

But I think, again, one of the reasons why the coverage of the story has been so horribly bad is that

But I think, again, one of the reasons why the coverage of the story has been so horribly bad is that

speculation has replaced fact.

speculation has replaced fact.

And we have this whole mythology or folklore that's developed and that people just kind of ambiently absorb.

And we have this whole mythology or folklore that's developed and that people just kind of ambiently absorb.

And then they end up just believing things that are totally false.

And then they end up just believing things that are totally false.