Jacob Segal
on 9/18/01 5:15 AM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood at panix.com wrote:
> 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