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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
But you do seem to be speaking for them.
Suprised you didn't hear about the pulled advertising....just about everyone has heard that story.
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I had to chuckle when I heard that news. And to think, when I took exception to his now widely criticized column, you wrote that he found time to speak with you about MY comments. All of your "Beyer may have meant 'ostentatious' when he wrote vulgar," ( that's paraphrased, pleeze don't sue me, ok?) explanations, with you pulling up supporting dictionary definitions were fairly amusing, if not especially interesting, along with the anger you directed at me culminating, predictably, with you questioning my mental capacity.
It was certainly curious when Crist came out a couple days later with a column on the same topic, written in far more modulated tones. A direct apology for Beyer's "working over" of the Sheiks? Maybe not, but DRF's Publisher covering the same topic as Beyer did a couple days before makes it an interesting notion.
Your thoughts are clear. So are Beyer's. Hopefully he's more open to criticism of his work on this occasion than you.
You probably don't give a rat's a ss about what I thought of his work, other than to take the occasion as opportunity to attack me in a fashion which brought to my mind the image of a rabid lhasa opso.
I doubt what you or I think about this really matters. But I'd bet my last freakin dollar the DRF's Publisher and Board of Directors care.
Give my regards to your friend, Mr. Beyer, if he's not too busy offering his expert insights on geo-politics and the collective psyche of the Dubai populace.