Dear Ujm,
1) Huh? See what they did, and look how it played out.
2) The gun control stuff. See #1. I’m sorry that you drooled for nothing.
3) Agudah could have ignored it because it wasn’t on their doorstep. The press release does nothing to prevent it from coming to our doorstep. At least the OU made it clear that it can’t be accepted.
If the Agudah feels that they are gaurenteed to best Rabbi Weiss in a debate, they should have publicly done so. All the small time rabbi arguments do not hold up over time. By now YCT and OO are much stronger because of those public debates. If Agudah determined that there is no clear strategy to best them in open debate, than they should of have a meeting of their greatest minds to determine why exactly we are not Conservative Jews and were OO stands. And then professionally disseminated their results. תשועה ברוב יועץ
4) The media’s role is to support the masses were they are comfortable. All the anti OO media achieved, is that frum people who are committed to Torah display open hostility to OO. They did not make more comfortable in our yiddishkiet. And they definitely didn’t explain what we should think about these issues and the sources for them. This is a recipe for more of our descendants ending up on the other side of the battle lines, CH”V.