Actually, I was merely trying to dampen an earlier anti-John-Gee feeding frenzy here by pointing out that there might be other factors involved, and that the members of the chorus of ridicule against Dr. Gee might not be in a position to comment intelligently on the Ritner/Gee matter.
Yes, it is called poisoning the well no matter how you try to spin it. Gee is accused of lying, which he most certainly has, and your only response is to inform your audience that Gee's professor was removed from his dissertation committee! You have no intellectual basis for defending Gee. All you have is
ad hominem against anyone who dares point out the fact that John Gee is willing to lie for the Lord.
I don't believe that I have ever said -- certainly I have never believed -- that Robert Ritner is just an anti-Mormon whose responses to Gee should be rejected on that basis alone.
Now you are just insulting everyone's intelligence. Ritner is an anti-Mormon Evangelical didn't ya know? He participated in the Luke Wilson video, which is all Mormons need to know. But you're saying you didn't mean to imply his bias against Gee was based in his Mormonism! You want us to believe that your bringing up the so-called "removal" from the committee, wasn't intended in any way to bias your audience towards Ritner's arguments against Gee's claims?
Then what, pray tell, was your purpose for mentioning this in virtually every single time Ritner's arguments were raised on the forums, over the course of three years? There was no "anti-Gee frenzy" in every instance. And you were not subtley implying that there "might be other factors involved." You were banking on it, and you were counting on those factors involving an extreme prejudice against Gee. So much so that we could easily dismiss anything Ritner says out of hand! This was the whole point of you commenting on how rare an occasion it was for a Dept Chair to be thrown off a committee. It must have been someything extraordinarily bigoted on Ritner's part, right? But of course, you left all that to the imaginations of your naïve readers, especially those who are conditioned to think in these terms. LDS folks are always the victims of unwarranted persecution. Your little deceptive rant about Ritner's prejudice against the innocent Mormon graduate student, whose only apparent crime was to reveal that he was LDS, just completed the picture for them. In the words of your mentor, "you're a damned fool."