Sometimes having a person to get you in the door can make the biggest difference in the world. Everything isn't simply cut and dry like that.
If someone helped get you the opportunity to have the job of a lifetime would you be so quick to shyt on that person and throw them under the bus? Bo isn't defending Whitlock, he just doesn't address him and his shenanigans. Dude disagrees with him blatantly with his opinions contrasted with Whitlock's.
Not saying that we have to agree (I don't) with him not going in on Whitlock, but I understand. Same like buddy said with Charlemagne and Wendy Williams.
The difference to me and why I would have gone in on Whitlock is the fact that he did call Bo out by name and Bo still took the high road. Not too many cats can do that.