yit- its not our job to go round up support and respect for rishonim. it IS our job to accord them the proper respect, and these excuses dont hold water. what i mean to point out is the underlying nekuda; you wouldnt catch R Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita refering to rishonim that way, because it simply doesnt befit them. im not advocating talking yeshivish (whatever exactly that means in this particular case) rather, being a mentsch.
