Rupert Murdoch apologises for 'grotesque' Middle East cartoon

[onwardsand upwards]

22. Now we're getting somewhere!

I'll admit that I missed that you were making the point that the cartoon was not anti-semitic. We agree on that, then.

I thought, though, that you were making this other point, only minutes ago: by bringing two concepts into close proximity (eg: "niggardly" and, well, the N word) one can mention one and, thereby, slyly imply the other. Your rhetoric in the previous post did exactly that: by bringing in David Duke, and the word racism, in close proximity with the cartoonist. The last word in your paragraph was "racist". Did I miss that point?

I think you're also really splitting hairs with the distinction between bigotry and racism. Again, a rhetorical device to pull the argument away from it's main issue.

The foolishness and ignorance of the analogy is in the eye of the beholder -- especially if the beholder focusses on the picayune points of language, rather than the substance of the argument.

What, are you my ex-wife?