Whoa!!!! I just asked a simple question to the board and did not vilify B.B. or anyone.
Furthermore, some time back, BB made a public statement indicating that someone from MB’s family was going to speak out. I never heard anything more about that.
It sounds like you have your views and we all can, of course. But there’s been no vilifying.
Respectfully, I will reply to clarify, not meaning to attack, but also to be honest about what I see.You asked a "question" as to why "no one" has been speaking up for MB, but then offered 3 possible answers, all of which were very critical of the family in whichever of the 3 was chosen.
I feel a very different, 4th answer, was more accurate to answering your question.
You did not allow for the possibility - and indeed, have argued strongly against allowing it as an answer - that the family
1 has BB speaking for them,
2 is comfortable with him doing so,
3 has considered also speaking up but then decided it was of no added value,
4 speaking up would open them to the same bashing that BB gets and who needs more burden, and
5 they fully support him as spokesman and feel they have already spoken through him so that should be enough.
In reply to that idea, rather than accept it as a legit choice for them to make, you have attacked BB's ability to fill that role. I accept that you may not have considered it as such, but it sure feels like vilifying when your response to him being the spokesman is assertions that he isn't qualified by being blood, and that he is not to be trusted because he's the spouse.
But observe: the family trusts him. They know him better than any of us, and they let him speak for them. They could speak up in a different way anytime they felt it would be of value, and have chosen not to. If we assess that thoughtfully, that is an eloquent commentary by them, where his voice is the only one being heard and one they are very willing to let speak for them.