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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 17 14:15:12 PDT 2001


LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:


>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.

Oh come on. You had your self-righteousness under control for a while, but apparently the WTC bombing has brought on a terrible relapse. You are inventing positions and arguing with straw men. Get the bombast under control, or you'll be ready for Fox News in a few days.

Doug



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