"Cherry picking" is a basic human condition. People tend to hear and remember things which they agree with over things which they disagree with. The strange thing to me is that people with so much responsibility weren't able to do a much better job of it!

And I'm with you, MMI: the guy's dying, quickly. Just let it go, and get down to fixing the system that (apparently) railroaded him in the first place, then released him in the second.