Reply #35: Perhaps, Sir

[The Magistrate]

Mr. Moore simply lacks your well-honed instinct fot the capillary in these matters. He may have considered the thing you find of such all-consuming importance to be peripheral; he may have felt the points he concentrated on would be of more value in propagandizing his intended audience. His purpose, after all, is to rouse in people a sense that they already agree with the view he presents, and a distaste for Saudi Arabia is pretty widespread among the people, even on the rightward portions of the political spectrum. Getting people to view the criminals of the '00 Coup as tools of Arab royals who hate the West and the United States with a passion will pay better at the polls, and is a far easier sell today, then limning the same events as issuing from some policy paper with a "suspiciously large number of Jews" among its signatories....