Foos and Talese: The Same Cloth

Reading about the story, I could halfway have some sense that the guy was really trying to understand humanity.

After seeing the guy, listening to him and having him spell out his original motivations, I lost any notion that the man was a man of any integrity whatsoever.

There really was never any excuse for what he did, but I am a guy who tries to understand a person's motivations and give them the benefit of the doubt.

In this case Foos is clearly a narcissistic jerk, who having fulfilled his fantasies for decades and got away with it, was not satisfied. He sought fame and his true self was exposed when people's opinions shook his sense of self importance.

Just watch his reaction, his anger and take a measure of the man when he starts to unravel as negative stories roll in.

While I am at it, the author, (Talese) while much more composed and with a well polished veneer, seems cut from the same cloth. Talese is a great story teller and writer, but his choice of story to tell and his involvement in the story beginning in 1980 makes a him complicit to some degree.

Talese is professional and Foos unprofessional in such equal parts in this story as to make them indistinguishable.