Over at Teekay’s

Never liked the guy, always jumping to put an anti-American spin on everything, but always grudgingly accepted that when not blinded by ideology, he could be a kick-ass reporter.

Heard him on BBC World (which we no longer get because the satellite dish is snowed in) yesterday, just an hour or so after Hariri’s assassination — in fact, even before we knew Hariri had been killed. He was not only exceptionally composed — this after a massive car bomb exploded near his home, after he’d been at the scene counting the bodies and body parts and burning cars and all that — but eloquent and measured and very much in command of the situation.

Now I admire him even more, and even more grudgingly — he’s one of our greatest reporters.