When he turned out to be a surprisingly good sport about the quip, responding with an "lol," I decided to probe him more about the scandal. "It's fine," he said. "The media and public don't want to look past a headline."
"How do you wish the media would have told the story?" I asked. I wanted to have a dialogue with him, instead of mocking him as everyone else on the Internet had already done.
"Accurately would be nice haha," he wrote.