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Does anyone truly believe that Aaron cared about Jay and Louise looking bad to the public? The only reason he made a big issue it to Jay was one or both of the following:

1. He is afraid that he will come out of it looking tight - fisted so instead of taking responsibility for his own actions he deflects his guilt onto Jay and Louise.
2. He doesn’t trust the public to make up their own mind so he has to make sure he educates all the thickos out there.

HIs only legitimate gripe (though personally I don’t think he even had that) was that Jay and Louise didn’t tell him they were going ahead with it, so perhaps making him look mean. But he doesn’t even focus on that. Instead, he makes the mistake of saying they did it for votes. Then he has to come to the DR as well to push his point and explain further (a dead giveaway that he knows HE looks bad).
As throughout the whole series, it is always someone else’s fault - never his. Everyone else’s motives are always suspect but he is the epitome of integrity and high principles. He has never once admitted he was wrong, as far as I can recollect. He is always the hard done by victim who goes off to brood about how the lesser people of the world hurt his superior and sensitive soul.
No doubt he thinks this makes him look interesting and deep.
Aaron my dear, you can fool some of the people some of the time (as you have), but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Underneath, he is a selfish, self centered egotist whose only care and aim is to get his hands on that prize money.