“That emotional state was in evidence when I questioned her. In her Guardian essay, (…) she warns of arrests of public figures taking place. ‘If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now.’
“I reminded her of several things. One, we were in a bookstore. Two, we were in a bookstore that had dozens of books critical of the Bush Administration including Charlie Savage’s Takeover, John Dean’s Broken Government, Jack Goldsmith’s The Terror Presidency and Glenn Greenwald’s Tragic Legacy.
“Third, I pointed out that people were not afraid to speak in this country and that in New England most political commentary was decidedly anti-Bush. Fourth, I reminded her that we were discussing her book in public and not under cover of darkness. Fifth, I further reminded her that the Bush Administration would be leaving in fewer than 460 days never to return. With this in mind, I asked her if she honestly believed that she and the other authors I mentioned would be arrested and imprisoned.
“Naomi Wolf did not want to answer my question. She began by talking about Germany in 1931-1932…”
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“Since she did not answer my question the first time, I asked her once more. Wolf replied, ‘I hope not.’ She then shouted at me yet again and asked me, ‘Why are we having this discussion?’ If she had permitted me to retort, I would have said because she brought it up in her essay. Wolf then proceeded to tell me she was getting ‘angry’ and then invoked her two children much to the delight of the crowd sympathetic to her who began applauding….”
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