For sure!!! It's one thing for all sides of a story being presented. It's quite another to just mindlessly spew garbage and that is exactly what he/she did.
"Sort of" is such a harmless thing to say. "Sort of". It's just a filler. "Sort of" - It doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, "sort of" means everything. Like after "I love you" or "You're going to live" or "It's a boy".