Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
“I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.”
“But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.”