Excuse Me? Whose Insight?

The following graf from an appreciation of the recently deceased movie director filmmaker Robert Altman by The Washington Post's Stephen Hunter could have come only from the pen of a card-carrying member of the airheaded, immaculate of history iPod Generation:

Blindfolded, you could tell in the first few minutes that you were in a Robert Altman film, not because you couldn't hear anything but because you could hear everything. It was called, glibly, "overlapping dialogue," based on Altman's insight that only in the movies — and not in real life — do people wait politely while others speak, then respond in wittily shaped perfect sentences.

So, "overlapping dialogue" was "based on [an] Altma[n] insight," was it?

Incredible (and for a writer on film, equally appalling) ignorance.

Or maybe not so incredible, all things considered.