The cacophony of criticism died down days ago with the only criticism being solicited criticism (effusive praise criticizing dissent). Other than that, no one is going out of their way to trash Young or Babcock. So I don’t get these long, apologetic posts denouncing criticism of the hire and announcing support.

On a separate note, the uncritical faith in Babcock is truly bizarre. He made one out of this world hire and another (Fuente) has been mediocre. Absolutely nothing Babcock has done has earned him uncritical faith.