--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" <s3raphita@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the sane - and reasoned - response (as opposed to the > childish rants of the other posters).
I'm sorry you felt it was "childish" of me to quote Steyn's remark in his second paragraph, before he even began to discuss the merits of the case against Zimmerman: "The U.S. Department of so-called Justice dispatched something called its 'Community Relations Services' to Florida to help organize anti-Zimmerman rallies at taxpayer expense." I haven't been following the specifics of the Zimmerman trial, so I have no comments on Steyn's view of it--except to say that anyone who would assert the bit of right-wing insanity I just quoted has something so seriously wrong with their attitude and their judgment that I wouldn't trust them to tell me whether it was raining outside. For more on this nitwittery: http://prospect.org/article/how-conservative-media-are-eating-zimmerman-trial http://tinyurl.com/q3q7a35 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/07/trayvon_martin_and_the_justice_department_s_community_relations_service.single.html http://tinyurl.com/mqd2tyj *Of course* the DOJ didn't send anybody to Florida to "help organize anti-Zimmerman rallies." The team was sent to try to help calm the burgeoning racial tensions. That's by contrast with the right wing media, which is doing its best to *inflame* those tensions with this absurd and completely false story. I note that you didn't want to comment on this, Seraphita; you preferred to resort to slinging ad hominems.
