Sitting in this chair on a bad day, you might think that Jews had finally succumbed to Sartre's insulting suggestion that if people stopped hating us we would cease to exist.... Sadder still is the fact that many Jews seem to cherish their self-perception as victims.
Much more provocative is the truly insulting suggestion that the average Aussie needs at least 10 cans of lager to work up some contempt for any whingeing Pom, let alone one with a plum in his mouth as big as the Sydney Opera House.
Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Then he escalates, asking rhetorically, "Are poor parents incapable of acting in their children's self-interest?" I've seen some choice opponents make this insulting suggestion but I have never seen charter advocates do it.
Please, if you're about to shake your head with indignation and gripe that's an insulting suggestion, degrading work, something you would never do and it's too iffy a business, think again.
It's insulting to suggest".
I find that suggestion insulting".
Townshend dismisses that suggestion as "archaic, insulting and extraordinary dumb", but there's a smile on his face.
"The suggestion is obviously insulting and sensational, but more, is also dead wrong," Richard Bamberger, the governor's communications director, said in a 2,200-word 2,200-wordon Monday.
I don't accept that the BBC has an inherent pro-Israel stance and think the suggestion is deeply insulting to the correspondents, cameramen and producers working on the ground in Gaza and Israel to bring us news.
