Your choice of people to respond to doesn't do a lot to support your criticism. According to his profile cletus is originally from Australia, but now lives in NY and works for Google. I don't know him personally, but given his employer I'd hardly jump to the conclusion that he doesn't have any friends who work there.

>Honestly, I have a difficult time taking any developer who doesn't live here seriously

He's also got over 250k rep on SO, and 15k on HN, so there's more than a few other people who take what he says seriously enough.