One way to try to influence people's thinking indirectly involves the words, "even as." The idea is to present the activities of two different groups and use the phrase, "even as" to imply that the actions of one group should have shamed the other group out of doing whatever it is they're doing. Like so:
Even as Uday Hussein was shoving people feet first into plastic shredders, anti-war protestors chanted, "Bush is a terrorist."
Like most rhetorical devices, there's nothing wrong with this. Unless you're doing it in a news story. (You know those things that are supposed to be opinion neutral.) Tim Blair points out a pretty bizzare example.
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