To be fair, the anti-Rommel propaganda campaign began long before Monty came onto the scene. Just my own opinion, but I think Monty was only the second British general (Wavell being the first) to truly understand how it was that Rommel kept winning battles he had no business winning, i.e. a genius for rapid paced, highly mobile battles. Which is why Monty made shrewd use of his material and numerical superiority to make sure his own battle against Rommel was neither fast paced nor highly mobile. But again, that is just an opinion. I have seen very little direct evidence for this having come across almost no reliable first hand accounts from within Monty's circle.