Edit: I exchanged some tweets with the guy and he says there was no editing and no omissions on that interview. He says he does have an audio of the interview but I didn't go as far as asking to have it.
Bit I'm not sure "editing" or "omissions" are the issue. Reading through that, NOTHING that he said strikes me as inaccurate factually. It's just that it comes across as blunt and lacking tact in the way it is worded, which is uncharacteristic of how Mike has responded in the past. As others have pointed out, I think it is just more an issue of translating his responses into Spanish and then back to English again. A lot of the subtle, but important nuances of what he is saying can easily be lost in that process. I am purely speculating, of course, since I obviously have no idea what was originally said. But I can picture him saying
something close to what was said in each of those answers and I would not have a problem with any of it, so I am betting it is simply that a lot of nuance and context was lost in translation--not that things were necessarily changed or edited out.
Some examples:
Where he talks about the mix: I do not doubt that the isolated drum track sounded a lot bigger. Mixing drums is HARD, and I cannot count the number of times a monster drummer doesn't sound all that great simply because he was not recorded properly or because the drums just get lost in the final mix. I would say it happens more often than not. Mike Portnoy had become VERY good at recording his drum parts and making sure the drums sound very huge and punchy in the overall mix. With him missing, the drum mix
did sound off on ADTOE. It just did. If anyone who picks up the album can tell, Mike obviously would be able to. I have no problem with him saying so. And again, I am betting it came across as a lot more tactful if we could hear the original audio rather than just reading the printed word having been translated twice.
Regarding the grammy nomination, I do not have a problem with that either. I think what he is trying to say is that Portnoy leaving was in the headlines and brought an unprecedented amount of exposure that got DT noticed and in the news. Since the grammies are, in essence, a popularity contest at their very core, no matter how good a band is, they are not going to get nominated unless they are noticed and have a degree of exposure. In the grand scheme of the music industry, DT is an obscure band. So of course the exposure from the Portnoy departure helped. I don't have much of an issue with that statement.