I'm pinging you beause I thought you too would appreciate an honest look at his reporting career.
Thanks. I don't know anything about Ms. Schlussel, but it almost appears she's a one-trick pony. I admire her candor on the subject of PJ's mideast ties, but my picture of PJ's shenanigans, like most Freepers, is much broader(although you couldn't tell it from the dirth of criticism on the earlier threads). "Saint Peter" he ain't.
I can't say what troubles me most about the glowing remarks about his style, presentation, consumate professionalism, etc. I do know one thing, and that is so many otherwise knowledgable Freepers seemed to get caught up in the "style over substance" thing. Something nearly every one of us to a person deplores as irrational thinking.
What we should be doing IMO is beating abc's servers, fax machines, and mail rooms to a froth in a effort to wean them from their Marxist teachings. Strike while the iron is hot; before sainthood is bestowed on PJ. FWIW, abc's demise also seems to be happening, but not soon enough for me.
Sortof of an aside: I have for years labeled these liberals/leftists/utopian dreamers as teenagers in suits, and I believe it's more accurate than not. What they in turn do is project their own failings onto the rest of us that aren't interested in a nanny to look after our affairs. We want to be left alone. Stay out of our way. Take your cradle to grave mentality and put it where the sun don't shine.
But he had style.
FGS