is it possible Jim Brady is not acquainted with Mr Google?

Could the longtime professional journalist, executive editor of the Washington Post online, really be so much more poorly equipped to make background inquiries than a bunch of amateurs with day jobs, who spend an hour or so in their spare time after dinner, before going to bed, simply typing a guy's name and hitting the return key? DHinMI at dailykos thinks circumstances suggest that may be the case. update: Jane reprises her Columbo impersonation that Brady admires so much.