Worst referee report ever

I've had some bad referee reports over time, but this one is a gem:

Veiled misgivings are a technique of yellow journalism; they ought not be permitted in scholarly work.

The author’s condescension toward intellectual commentary causes me dismay. Is it not fundamental to scholarship that one attempts to find in exceptional texts coherence and profound consistency not readily apparent to “us”? Is that not why we study and is that not how we learn? The sentiment the author expresses here is the odde