"Are people simply embarrassed by their knee-jerk denunciations of the great man?"

Meaning me, Raymond? Not a knee-jerk, just a visceral reaction to the manner of the 'dishonest song' put-down. I didn't actually mind the instruction to 'write a Vietnam song by next week' so much; it sounded just like a schoolteacher setting homework.

Of course I'm as interested as you to hear the first-hand account from Jim.