Bet you wouldn't think so if someone you didn't like - Seth Rollins, Ultimate Warrior, etc. - said it.
This kind of hypocritical apologist behavior is sometimes rampant on PWO.
"Jim Cornette's real good at the rasslin', so Jim Cornette can do no wrong. Jim Cornette once fell off a scaffold for my entertainment, so he can say whatever he wants."
As much of a garbage heap as wrestling has historically been, and wrestling fans still are, Cornette has run out of free passes IMO. He's had one for way too long, and I blame sycophantic wrestling fans and promoters on that as much as anyone else.
The ugly truth is, neither of them should have been in TNA at that point, because they were both complete liabilities with outdated booking styles and sensibilities - Russo (1990s) and/or Cornette (1980s) in TNA (mid-2000s) was never, ever going to work, just like Heyman has been a complete and utter abysmal failure on Raw, despite no one wanted to admit that because he's still popular.