1) You'd think this MacDonald character would lay out and keep out of the public spotlight after this whole charade, but nope. And everything he says or does to argue his side about his "unfair" firing makes things look worse. He "didn't know" most of the "Elders" who voted to fire him? Seriously? I know its a megachurch with hundreds of staff, but what kind of competent pastor doesn't even BOTHER to even meet the people hired to runs things at HIS church?
2) Mancow makes a great case what a snake MacDonald is, but one wonders why Mancow would continue to attend the church and give the guy the benefit of the doubt it was as blantantly obvious that MacDonald as big a liar and conman as Mancow says. I wouldn't stick around for another week if I had a "pastor" who was out spending millions on glitzy gifts to his pals or engaging in character assassination against good people.
1. I think there had been turnover among the “elders” as anyone who asked questions was “purged” and some outwardly compliant men checked their options and then bailed out. The bigger picture, though is the circular reasoning that, if they agreed to his removal, they “didn’t even know him.”
I think he’s just delusional, now, perhaps refusing to speak to anyone who doesn’t tell him he’s all that plus America’s Sexiest Man. A couple of years ago, he dropped a lawsuit against reporters when he realized their lawyers could subpoena documents. But now he’s decided to go after Mancow Mueller, and the countersuit means he can’t back out.
2. I don’t understand it either. Some people are strangely influential, though, and once a mark is “hooked,” our own drive to “not be wrong” does a lot of work.