At least I don't appear to defend BD anymore. Nolonger seem to be his boyfriend either.
In my books there's nowt wrong with admitting to your own mistakes. In some people's eyes that's a character strength - not a weakness. As long as mistakes made are few. Certainly in my job if I wrote an important letter based on info provided by my staff to a wide circulation and it was then proven to be misleading or wrong I personally would take responsibility for it - not blame everyone else and assume collective responsibility. But I guess that's me.
With BD the truth is I never met the man and spoke to him once very briefly and once at length.
With MH the contact has been night-n-day different (I have now 3 Arch level files of stuff for starters !!!) and my association with MH has been in conjunction with others (who never post on here to best of my knowledge) who over the past 10 months I have come to trust and respect.