Noah Feldman gets the pulse of the Lebanese public

Look at his contacts in Lebanon who educate him about Lebanon: "To check this theory, I spoke to Mohamed Choucair, the president of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of Lebanon and the CEO of Patchi chocolates, the region’s largest candy manufacturer. We were sitting in the cigar bar of Le Gray hotel near Martyrs’ Square with Paula Yacoubian, Beirut’s answer to Oprah Winfrey, and her husband, Moafac Harb, formerly the news director of the U.S.-government-funded Arabic television network Alhurra."  He did not even say that Shuqayr (not Shuqayr--a professor of Islamic law who does not know the rules of Arabic transliteration) is a lackey of Hariri family.  And he does not say that Yacoubian is a TV reporter on Hariri TV and that no one--except someone who does not know a thing about Lebanon and who can't watch Arabic TV-- would say that she is comparable to Oprah.