--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > Judy, your analysis is, of course, dead on accurate. But, I can't > > help but think you take Barry far more seriously than he takes > > himself. I always assume he's just joking around when he posts > > bullshit just to get a rise out of people. > > In my observation over more than 10 years, Barry > adopts the *pose* of not taking himself seriously, but > it's only that, a pose. It's designed to allow him to > wiggle out of his dishonest statements and attacks when > someone catches him. The attacks themselves are deadly > serious, as is his intention to mislead and deceive > others. > > You can't really tell that this is the case unless > you've followed his posts and exchanges over some time. > Just for instance, he'll say something untrue in a > post that one *could* view as just kidding around, but > then sometime later he'll bring the falsehood up again > in a serious discussion as if it were established fact > and base an argument on it. > > He's sometimes pretty clever about it. I'd bet that > if you were to have taken a poll immediately after he'd > posted what I quoted about the issue in the thread > being the right to express oneself--i.e., his bogus > parallel with the Muhammad cartoons thread--a majority > of those who read that post would have thought he had > a point. > > And that's a pretty serious charge, that those of us > who have been criticizing Feste don't think Feste has > a right to express his views.
While I agree with you on the mechanics of his style, its not clear why he constantly distorts things. Does he have agenda? Perhaps he likes to promote a few minor POVs. But I don't see it as a crusade to promote a particular over arching platform. I think its more that seeks to be, craves being, seen as witty. To be the life of the party, always with a witty bon mot, piercing observation. Why let truth, facts and logic get in the way of such a fabulous pursuit? Its sort of fun to watch. Few of his witticisms can be made around true things. So its a bit of a game or puzzle to see what Barry is distorting today -- in pursuit of his fabulaous witty image. It keeps the mind sharp to unravel twisted knots, to peer through his smoke and mirrors. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
