With respect, this isn't "ironic" at all, and I don't mean this as some stupid quibbling about the definition because I mean this for all definitions. Those two facts are quite connected; maybe not completely directly, but they are far from independent events that just happen to be occurring in some unexpected manner. At the very least, it means I interpret the rescue as another level of razzle-dazzle rather than a rescue based on solid fundamentals. This doesn't surprise me too much, your mileage may vary.