There are plenty of PR firms who will take on any asshole. In fact, there are PR firms that specialize in that. I used to know a guy who worked for one. Really nice guy by the way, I went to his gay wedding – not a dry eye in the house. He also stopped working for them. Anyway I made up a slogan for the company he worked for: "where there's dirt, there is us" or something like (it was in German). This company made a reputation, if you can call it that, by working for organisations with really big PR problems: Exxon Valdez, Russian mafia, tobacco companies, and the list goes on.I think Joe has it about right that they got at least some consulting from one or more PR company and somewhere a strategy got worked out that worked around all of the vainglorious whims of the spoiled brat godboy.
What we are seeing is the product of this compromise. I'm sure the suggestion was made to deal with the stuff head on, which would have been the better solution, but godboy wasn't playing. Really both Mishler and Dettmers both demonstrate this processs in their testimonies.
I suspect that besides the godboy problem, EV is now suffering from a lack of talent, since alot of the good people have left. Anyway, in that kind of sycophantic environment the good people tend to get fed up eventually anyway, even if they manage to maintain their belief in Rawat's divinity.
