I'm pretty sure Purple (or anyone else on this board) isn't fooled for a moment by your attempt to out-outrage someone. You're the one that remarked as if you union officials played with furloughed pilots' lives like they were pawns. Maybe you didn't mean it the way it sounded, but you definitely gave that impression.

You atone for this kind of political deafness by apologizing...not by accusing those who called you out on it of doing what only you've done.

Carl