It's not often I work up enough heartbeats to comment here, but lets all remember that the Canadians aren't really ever going to be well-disposed to the 101. They've caught a serious cold over the 101 once in the courts and they're on their way to catching another. Inevitably they are doing anything they can to justify their recent decision to buy the S92, treat what they say with a large pinch of salt.
Finally, with the Boeing anti-Airbus campaign in the background, Sikorsky clearly feel more at ease with using all the tricks in the book to talk down the US101 as they know that if it wins it will change US defence helicopter procurement patterns radically and most importantly at great cost to Sikorsky.
Fortunately with GW' back in the seat they'll have to invent or 'spin' a lot more stories yet!!!