I think he is referring to Langewiesche's assertion that Sully used alpha protection when landing, remaining in normal law, when dead-sticking the airbus. It is verly likely that Sully "knew" he was in normal law, so even though his inputs would have resulted in a stall without the computer intervention, he ended up with a pretty much minimum descent rate landing which is what he wanted.
I don't see the "pilot-hate" that ayecarumba sees either.
Palmer's book "Understanding AF447" is a great read, but very basic / aimed at non-aviators. It gets into significantly more detail than the Vanity Fair article, which I also thought was a pretty good summary of the issues involved for those not familiar.