Maybe I haven't been following the threads too carefully, but I don't think that Carol C's posts generally do seem to say "one side is totally wrong and the other is totally right". Rather they appear to concentrate on pointing out faults on the side that gets the most favourable media coverage, which isn't the same thing at all.

There's a quote I came across the other day, and it strikes me that it says something which we would do well to hold to in our exchanges ion the Mudcat, especially when we are getting angry. It comes from a detective story writer who died a couple of years ago, Ellis Peters. She is writing here in the voice of the protagonist in her books, Brother Cadfael, a 12th century monk:

"The simplest and most temperate words are the best to express complex and intemperate feelings."