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At any rate, the transcript of the show in question was posted, and it is easy to see how a large misunderstanding occurred. If people on all sides had waited for the transcript, perhaps a lot of insults and hard feelings and a freeper being banned could have been avoided.

I appreciate you telling me this, M. M.. I went through about 250 posts early this morning, but had to stop reading before seeing the actual transcript. I'm sorry I didn't see it.

One thing that really makes me crazy is a false accusation. God knows, I have had a little bit of that here from one particular poster.

I hope that if "bayourant" was at all accurate with his claim, I hope that he is reinstated. I still haven't seen the actual transcript. I wonder if you could point me to the post where it may be.

Again, thank you very much for your post. If I jumped to incorrect conclusions, it is mostly because of my very high esteem for F. Lee Levin. I just didn't and don't think he said such a thing.

But, there never really is any real excuse to falsely claim something about someone that is not true.

Thanks again.

The transcript is in post 399. The confusion came, I believe, because Levin accused the general of throwing mudballs (accusing some of the anti-port people of being anti-Arab). I didn't listen, but several posters talked about how Levin spoke very quickly and it would be easy to mentally transform "mudballs" into "dirtbag" when one of the listeners is emotional about the issue.

I think Levin should have been less emotional himself and have tried to clarify what he said early on, and made his identity plain to bayourant. I think bayourant shouldn't have come out with such an accusation without a transcript.

And I am off to listen to Tony Snow, my preferred talk show host. He also posts on FR and disagrees with us sometimes without being unpleasant.