Washington Examiner in a phone interview on Wednesday. "I mean, why is it necessary to do that?" "If they had confidence in their claims, they wouldn't have to do stuff like this, they wouldn't have to lie, [and] they wouldn't have to go and take things out of context," he added. "I'm disappointed and upset." He also blasted the footage for being "very selectively edited" and "out of context." As a result, he said, it missed his main arguments that background checks are subject to large numbers of "false positives" and have adverse effects on minority males. On May 14, Lott said he was contacted by a man claiming to be Jordan Simon, the board chairman of a fictional school called the James Madison Academy, to be its keynote speaker. At the time, the unidentified person who worked for Change the Ref, crafted a fake website for the institution, JamesMadisonAcademy.net, which no longer displays on a web browser.