If one were to be actually honest, instead of just pretending to be, two points would need to be made:
1. The "insult" wasn't really to Maharishi; it was to those who revere him. It was said that if they had witnessed him sexually abusing a baby, they would nevertheless continue to maintain he was a life celibate. The hypothetical image of Maharishi abusing a baby was tasteless and offensive, but it was the vicious slur on his followers that triggered the upset and outrage. 2. It wasn't just this one entirely gratuitous insult, malicious as it was, that led TM supporters to walk out. This was just the most recent in a very long and relentless sequence of savage, sadistic insults by TM critics personally targeting TM supporters. Barry wrote, in part: Which is interesting in the context of all this this latest soap opera hysteria on Fairfield Life, because if people are honest, what it's really about is that a few living people became so offended at what was said in passing about a dead person that they went bat-shit crazy.
