Barry, you need to have a word with Joe. I'm sure the last thing he intended was make you look like a horse's ass, twice in a row.
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > Just to forestall more of this, I point out a favorite > TB "smear tactic" -- insinuate something about a critic > of Maharishi or the TMO that most people would find > negative or that would bias them towards disliking or > disbelieving the critic, but (and this is the important > part) phrase the innuendo as a question. > > Then, when called on the insinuation, the person can > act all offended and say, "I never said that Judith had > an affair with a married man, or that she was paranoid > enough to think Maharishi would have her killed...I > just asked a question. You are misrepresenting me." > > Two comments from her so far, BOTH finding a way to > "ask an innocent question," BOTH embedding a negative > spin on the author of a book she hasn't read. And in BOTH cases, finding to my surprise that the questions I expected Joe to shoot down happened to be right on the money: "When Judith observed that one of the women who more or less 'replaced' her, and who had left MMY very suddenly, died soon after in a plane crash, it scared the daylights out of her. She thought perhaps MMY's had that kind of power." In this case, reflecting on her even *more* negatively. Be careful, Barry. That thing dragging on the ground you keep shooting at may not be a third foot.
