Actually, it goes deeper than that. Given the positions he held, it is fair to say, that he has to have manipulative skills: put simply, he is a manipulator.
Manipulators use phones, mails, memo-s etc. as remote control devices. And since manipulators are more often than not weak on substance, they rely on input from outside more than "creators", who have more inherent values to live off from.
I think he just got pissed by being blown out of the water because of his net-blackout.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Confessions_o...
btw: maybe this is to be torrented on meshed freedomboxen?