Your assessment is probably the correct one. Sometimes I bend over backwards to give my adversaries the benefit of the doubt.
:-)
If he had just read the news rather than try to be a Journalistic Saint/Prima Donna he would have stayed out of trouble.
Going back to the clip where he talks about the RPG, at the beginning he is talking to the student interviewer - about himself.
It is painfully obvious he's trying to impress. He compares himself to Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings while at the same time referring to them as "giants in our business."
He wishes so desperately to be included sand associated with them in people's minds.