Don't leave those bottom two laying out at my house. To my spouse a knife is a knife. Pizza knife to slice bananas? Sure, why the hell not. Bread knife to cut cheddar - done. Drives a neurotic like me nuts.
If you're a piece of shit for a living, you're still a piece of shit. The fact that you have sponsors doesn't transfer that to another person, it just means there's more pieces of shit. Being shit isn't zero sum.
The people who sheepishly say, "nothing personal" are lying to themselves. Not that it's personal, but that it matters whether or not it's personal.