After reading about this here, I went ahead and wrote this for the Radar wire.
A further thought after the jump, but don't read it until you've read the Radar post.
I thought it was especially obnoxious that JG wrote the piece I quoted at length at least four months after he'd started working on the book. It's not like he changed his mind, he knew the whole time he wrote all that "I'd defend Al Gore too" crap that it was a lie.
I half suspect that all the attacks on liberals for using the fascist meme was really just a ploy to bully us into unilateral disarmament (which we love so much) so that they could have the weapon all to themselves.