The next day, Williams and BET failed to come to terms, and on Saturday morning, the day of the show, BET's president of music programming, Stephen Hill, released a purposefully unconvincing statement: he said that Williams had put his hosting slot on the line in a break-dancing competition with the R. & B. star T-Pain, and he had lost.
Given a fake bomb was found near the training ground with a photograph of Hulk taped to it, that is a slightly unconvincing statement, but what is significant is that Zenit's largest fan group is apparently desperate not to be perceived as racist.
This is an ingenious but unconvincing argument.
These assertions are counterbalanced by fairly unconvincing statements that he and his bandmates "didn't give a shit" about what anybody thought of them, an eating-and-having-your-cake syndrome common to many pop musicians.
Igor Shchyogolev, the Minister for Telecommunications made a series of slightly unconvincing statements about avoiding a top down approach to telecoms but he mad an interesting aside: he admitted his own son had used a filesharing network, but had found it much easier to pay for apps and music via the iPhone, an example where legitimate ecommerce means would gain traction for just being easier.
"The takeover will ensure Portsmouth's future is safe and will bring financial stability," read an unconvincing club statement, which may or may not have been scribbled on the back of one of the IOUs they issued to players in lieu of wages last Friday.
Considering that one of his muses, Betty Catroux, went on to become a muse to another designer, Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme, and the other, Loulou de la Falaise, opened her own fashion boutique, that statement seems unconvincing.
His previous statement was unconvincing, but much can be said and done differently before the film's release on October 7 and in the days and years that follow.
After he was grilled by members of the committee, Mr. Yates was dismissed by Keith Vaz, the chairman, who told him that his statements were "unconvincing, so you may well be hearing from us again".
The trials all collapsed in July 1985, after defence questioning that had exposed police testimony at odds with the film of what happened, partially identical statements by different officers, officers saying they had had statements dictated to them, an allegedly forged signature by a police officer on a statement, and generally unconvincing police evidence in the witness box.
However, we feel this argument is unconvincing.
