[BigEdLB]

How about this idea. These two sources of bird cage liners, TNR & TWS, are all in for a self-servicing status quo, and are scared to death of the old power structure crumbling. Therefore they use the old Pravdaesque technique of distortion to try and rescue their sorry backsides. Most of us here long ago realized that this magazine looks down their nose as regular folks, and dismisses our opinions as ignorance to some notion that elites knows what’s better for us than we do.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The point isn't to convince the writer to publicly acknowledge they were wrong. The point is to make the argument publicly so that readers and others who may be persuadable get to read an intelligent response and perhaps question an article they might otherwise accept. You might be better off trying to correct misperceptions, or at least defend the guy in a non-strident way.