The McVeigh Tapes

The McVeigh Tapes here:
Rachel Maddow Show

I just watched the McVeigh Tapes program presented by Rachel Maddow. I usually like Maddow usually but something stank about The McVeigh Tapes. The program is interspersed with "expert opinions" that attack McVeigh as a coward, a failure, and a psychopath. Maybe he was these things but what bothered me is that the program didn't want me to decide for myself. It was if the producers were worried that if The McVeigh tapes were presented in a truly objective manner it would be too likely that the viewer would sympathize with McVeigh.

All I really want to say about the matter is that perhaps he was neither a coward nor a hero. Perhaps he was neither a failure nor a success. Perhaps he was neither a psychopath nor completely sane.

Yet it is difficult to fault Maddow et al here. How else can such information be presented to a mass audience? How do we talk about someone like McVeigh without the ominous music and calling him a coward, failure and psychopath every 30 seconds? Are such ad hominum attacks on McVeigh obligatory, involuntary, necessary, or...a factual representation of who McVeigh actually was?