Hello Earl!

13 Apr 10 19:46, you wrote to Richard Webb:

and just so that we are clear, I am not that Ross... :-)


 EC> -> From my cursory reading of that silliness, I understand, at
 EC> -> least from Ross's assertion that he was quoting a relative.

 EC> It is a long, long, LONG running exchange.  For years, Ross tried to
 EC> discredit anything Tim said on any subject, in any echo, by digging up
 EC> similar snippets from his past posts.  Tim's response can be seen as
 EC> "turnabout is fair play" or "two wrongs don't make a
right," take your
 EC> pick.  Ross has made a number of amazingly bigoted comments over the
 EC> years (based on race, religion, gender, and so on), so he shouldn't be
 EC> surprised to see them reappear when HE accuses others of the same.

 EC> The old "I was quoting someone else" dodge is amusing,
though.  He has
 EC> also used the variations of "I was quoting a freeper" or
"I was
 EC> quoting a Klansman" when people object to his language.  But the
 EC> original post almost never says something like "I saw a news clip of
 EC> the protest on CNN, and there was a Klansman who was SO BIGOTED that
 EC> he kept saying bleep."  It just says "bleep," so the
fact that he
 EC> thinks it is okay to say "bleep" just because someone else did is
 EC> laughable.  And when he tries to explain away his own comments on race
 EC> by claiming that his father, his aunt, and other members of his family
 EC> are racist, well, that is a really strange alibi.

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