Okay, let's look at the evidence. How about the following exchange?

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
From: Amos - PM
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 12:03 PM

Bruce:

Do not vent your bitterness on me with false assumptions. It is a bottomless pit of woe not worth the falling itno, to start that kind of a slanging match. Based on these petty forum scribblings you have no gauge or metric of what I feel about what.

A
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Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
From: beardedbruce - PM
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 12:13 PM

Amos,

That was the post from 2005 that I had posted. I was pointing out to Don that his blame of the Bush administration was not justified, and merely an example of his ( perhaps justified in other cases, but not this one) bigotry.

I am sure we slang enough at the time to fulfil both of our desires.

When I objected to being called a "bigot" by you—with no foundation at all—you responded thus:

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
From: beardedbruce - PM
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 01:07 PM

Don,

"Main Entry: big•ot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun
Etymology: French, hypocrite, bigot
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
- big•ot•ed /-g&-t&d/ adjective
- big•ot•ed•ly adverb "

If the shoe fits....

Your blame of the Bush administration for all the evils of the world demonstrate your bigotry.

To which, Amos responds:

Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
From: Amos - PM
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 01:23 PM

Bruce:

This is a bit like saying that accusing a killer of killing is bigoted. [Exactly, Amos--DF] The instantiations of the over-secretive, repressive, and destructive policies imposed on the nation by the current executive suite are legion. Their lies are legion; their economic blunders, legal evasions, and poor decisions are legion. Wherefore would it be bigotry to say so? Even in one instance missing some mitigating detail?

A

There is quite a bit more there, but it would seem that you like to accuse people of "bigotry" quite a bit. Do you even know what the word means? After all, I did post a dictionary definition of the word on that thread. But you seem to think it means "anyone who disagrees with what I believe." I guess that includes the Merriam-Webster dictionary too. So let's let other people decide, okay?

I'd suggest that you leave the epithets alone and stick to the discussion itself.

Now, back to the subject of this thread—

Don Firth