Interview with Philip Roth (Part 2)

Well, according to your thinking, then, an evil jerk can NEVER have a good idea? Sorry, but that just doesn't follow logically.

I don't remember my "thinking " or what I was saying. But I'd never want to be heard to say that an "evil jerk" can't have a good idea.

Itzik Basman

Well, then, it sounds like you're a petty-minded individual. Let's say you discover some anonymous writings and you agree with many of the ideas in them. Then one day you find out that they were written by an "evil jerk". You would suddenly say they weren't good ideas? If so, that's absurd. Ideas are just ideas, and if they are good ones, it doesn't matter where they come from.

yo yo!

read what I jusy wrote you.

 I agreed with you.

Itzik Basman

True, and I apologize.

No problem.

Itzik Basman

I read your comment. Uh....is that some kind of joke? You cant' do what you want? That's hilarious, and let's take a good, hard look at Bush/Rove's doings while in office.

What a fool Roth is, equating Bush with Ahmadinejad. He loves Gore, meanwhile Gore has been a hawk on Iraq for 15 years. How dumb he looks now that Obama has truly destroyed the country.

Roth said the president of Iran has some points with which he is in agreement, and is astounded that this is so. In fact, it's part of the "catastrophe" he enumerates here. You misunderstand Roth and twist his clear words to suit your purpose.

You call this brilliant man a poor political thinker even as you demonstrate publicly your own impoverished intellect.

What you fail to understand is explicit in much of what Roth has produced in the past 40 years. He is, very often, an unashamedly 'political' intelligence [ see, The Plot Against America and the Prague Orgy for openers] and so to simultaneously describe him as a brilliant writer trapped inside the body of an amoral political nitwit is to explicate only your cursory acquaintance with his body of work. Roth, like most liberals, does not hate America, he hates ignorance and depravity.