I just got back from Boston where I had my event at the Kennedy Forum with Maj.

Ball Emma of the

received. Majid in particular has really been flabbergasting. Nathan lean an

employee of Reza Osloons called Majid, my lap dog, Mertaza Hussein an employee

of Glenn Greenwald's, got on Twitter and called him a talking monkey, a porch

monkey, a native informant. This is all after viewing the video of our

conversation at Harvard and that video is online. You can see that on my blog.

Watch that video and then contemplate how close-minded and psychologically and

ethically confused you have to be to think that Majid was functioning as my

lackey there. As I said on that panel, if anything, my views were more

modified by our dialogue than his were and if you read the book you'll just see

how that conversation evolved. It's just amazing to me that the level of

cynicism and ill will this is bringing out in people. But I suppose I shouldn't

be amazed. Last week I did an interview with Dave Rubin and Dave is a really

nice guy incredibly supportive and had the bright idea of trying to

inoculate the world against misrepresentations of my views by just going

through the most controversial positions on profiling a nuclear war and all

the rest and he thought he would we would do five minutes on each in over the

course of this interview and then he would put up those separate chapters as a

point of reference for anyone who wanted to be clear about what my views

actually are. Well, we did this and then people distorted this very conversation.

So for instance, I said with respect to my views on profiling at airports, I

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