I never liked and never admired Abdullah Schleifer, the new director of Al-Arabiya office in Washington, DC. He is a convert to Islam, and--like many converts--became a fanatic (especially in his love for House of Saud) and befriended Ayman Ad-Dhawahiri for a while. But look at this sentence from this interview in which Schleifer heaps praise on Saudi media--yes, there is no conflict-of-interest here: "Although I am not good in Arabic, but I have a feeling that Gulf media are more professional than the media in Bilad Ash-Sham, Iraq, and Egypt."