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.....and the fact that Sumlin didn't handle a few situations very well, does not change that.
But it does change that...for a joke to be funny it has to be rooted in truth, which in this context is
"People are splitting hairs over every minor thing that happens in the program while overall Sumlin has the program in a fine state". Sorry, but that premise was false. Sumlin didn't have the program in a fine state overall.
This joke became a tired one because on every thread where someone voiced a concern about something in the program they would get a heavy dose of this.
Sure, in the context of thousands of threads/posts I'm sure there were some that were downright silly concerns, but the overall narrative that posters were voicing false concerns isn't true. There were valid concerns about the programs. There were major issues during his tenure where Sumlin didn't have his **** together.