Good to see that you're picking up the slack for Hank. When I asked him about his Tourette's episode on this point, he didn't seem inclined to get off the bumper sticker.
I don't think the stories are equivalent, though. Do you? Had Armstrong, like Kos, disclosed the relationship
at the time that he had taken took the money, his story would be far different, and probably wouldn't even have been illegal.
Of course, this would've meant that he'd have had to interrupt the VP mid-rant about the nonobjectivity of the fucking MSM, so I can understand how that might have been, you know, awkward.