Just to play devils advocate here, if his father really has lost it due to age, then he is protecting his dad's reputation by letting people know. I didn't actually hear how it was phrased, but I think that should be figured in to the equation.
Possibly.
I saw an interview with him a few weeks ago, and
made comment that Mike Wallace seemed sadly
"halfway to senile"...I wasn't kidding.
It was a "one on one"...maybe Charlie Rose, or Larry King.