Hyper-intellectual

"Perhaps the chic-est of the warlords was Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader, a hyper-intellectual, elegantly louche stoner of the time with long locks and a fab L.P. collection, or so one heard. He graduated from the AUB, as so many leftists did, and was resolutely anti-American." What does it say about the intellect of a person who finds Walid Jumblat to be "hyper-intellectual"? But is this not the same Hariri-Saudi-funded correspondent who called March 14 "March 15"? How lazy do you have to be to get the date (seen everywhere in Lebanon) wrong? (thanks Laure)