My favorite version of this is when they try to lie about what he "meant," only to then tell on themselves by saying something that's still awful.
Like with the recent "poisoning the blood" quote. I saw several people say he didn't mean ALL immigrants. Okay? That's still some racist shit. It's not even lying about crime anymore, it's straight-up eugenic garbage.
Really the only thing I remember about the first one is that after the movie was done, I realized I was on the edge of my seat basically all movie. It might be dumb, but it succeeds as an action movie.
They do bring that up in the comics and the animated series ( at least the 3d ones). I'm sure more than once I've seen Megatron say something like " it's them calling our ways deceitful, and since we fight for justice we are proud be Decepticons " or something like that.