Bill O dug himself a pit..that he does not acknowledge..shame on him.
As soon as he felt himself sinking in a quicksand of his own making, he began to SPIN trying to get out. Saying he never did more than "raise questions" about Shawn's failure to get away from Devlin.
Any of us, including myself, who saw and heard his first attack on Shawn, knows he had already passed judgement against the boy. A fact that he has never admitted, just as you point out. A time or two or three afterwards he said, if I'm wrong, I'll admit it. But he has changed his story so that now he claims never to have done anything he need apologize for.
One of the worst performances in the history of tv punditry...