I think you were stung by the suggestion that could be something racist in not noticing that the people murdered in New York were vastly outnumbered by those murdered by the Clinton administration.
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
>
> > I can no longer believe that this is a simple misreading. It's a deliberate
> > misrepresentation. --C. G. Estabrook
> >
>
> Try a deliberate rejection of your tendentious, mendacious spin,
> calculated to try to make an action taken in a way to minimize the
> loss of human life [a bombing at night which took one life, and which
> had the goal of abating the loss of life] the equivalent of an action
> designed to maximize the loss of human life [a bombing when upwards of
> 50,000 innocent people were present]. Try a deliberate rejection of
> an argument that is being presented without credible evidence. What
> you are doing is the intellectual equivalent of what the defense
> lawyers did in the Rodney King trial -- taking the obvious and
> self-evident, and trying to desensitize the observer by breaking it
> down into isolated frames -- so we should come away thinking that we
> see something different from what we actually saw.