gold_dredger_phd: Hoo-f**king-ah! Outstanding synopsis. I especially agree with the estimation of Gore Vidal. I’ve seen him on talk shows before, dripping contempt for anyone not able to understand (and, more importantly, agree with) him.
Don’t forget the king of self-aggrandizement and self-attribution: Noam Chomsky. Noted apologist for Pol Pot as well.
Naomi Wolf is an absolute dilettante when it comes to this type of writing, and she is clearly out of her depth here. This type of tired polemical writing should have gone out with the ’60s and early ’70s, especially the repeated invocations of Mussolini and Hitler. I especially enjoyed the hysterical bon mot of: “I will no longer speak out when they come seize my friends!” I don’t find it easy to equate her with Diedrich Bonhoffer, whom she was undoubtedly referring to.
