Old argument. I told those shippers why blame Sakura when the entire village full of shinobi is also watching on. And not to mentioned that Hinata's carelessness could have been disastrous. If not naruto been pinned down by black-rods and Pain thought Naruto was already subdued, he would have taken Hinata hostage. I explained to those NHtards and none of them have a single braincell to comprehend what I said. Waste of time.
Tell you the truth, the red herring I think is fake because he said after that NH was his OTP from the start. Two days later the pity interview and he stated that he wanted NH from the start of PT2. Then he changed his mind to popularity (which means NH was not from the start of PT 2 lol) and the heroine switched to be made. Not supporting him, but I think he said it to spare us mercy from the movie and the franchise. He wanted no NS fans to watch the movie and when found out SP set a trap from both the NS and SN fanbases with a 30 second video at the cinema. I might be wrong be who knows.
Problem is when you flip-flop within two-days like that during interviews, someone told you to change your speech. He pass from pity love at it was all planned all along ( pity love for the movie that is about to come out about that love, I believe we call that bad business, won't you think:P)