I respect Gentry because he put on a good effort. Took a lot of courage. But you have to call a spade a spade: he got waxed by the those three thugs. Most of that was because of the way the situation was set up. There was no way that he could have been successful in the interview.
Gentry tried to come across as smooth, but his believability was that of a used car salesman. He took the absolute wrong approach by attacking Greenberg. He should have educated him, not started a fist fight in which he got his ass handed to him.