MHS dodges defamation bullet

Theres never a day I wake up and want to see Martin Hamilton-Smith on TV. Except perhaps today, when he dragged his political carcass onto the steps of parliament and gave the full apology that Mike Rann asked of him, as a precondition to dropping a potential defamation action.

MHS stood in front of the media and read a preprepared statement apologizing for any hurt or embarassment it may have caused the people he linked to scientology, using forged documents to prosecute his argument.

More oddly, he got away with this line:

... and I further accept that the documents on which I had relied, were forgeries and the matters referred to them, or referred to in them were fabricated by a person or persons whose identity is unknown to me - Martin Hamilton-Smith (emphasis added)

MHS is still apparently running with the line that he had no idea who gave him the documents in the first place. Apparenly you just give this guy something defamatory and he reads it out in parliament before he even asks for your name.

What a tool.

Listen to the debacle here, from a dying horses mouth. Read the full debacle here.