As evidence, he noted that Kissinger had been described in disparaging terms by Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote about pretty much every major political figure in disparaging terms, and that he'd been denounced as a practicing Satanist by David Icke, who's denounced pretty much every major political figure as a practicing Satanist; rather inexplicably, Ferguson himself even provided an incomplete list of over a dozen other prominent men and entire family dynasties against whom Icke has made this exact charge. It's the first time I can recall having seen someone actually screw up anecdotal evidence, and I've read pretty much everything Martin Peretz used to write for the New Republic back when he still owned it and no one could stop him. Speaking of which, I certainly hope the New Republic is doing okay.

Having returned from his cherry picking expedition with a basket full of rocks, Ferguson told us of the structural violence to which Kissinger has been subject at the hands of "the conspiracy theorists of the left." "In his People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn argues that Kissinger's policies in Chile were intended at least in part to serve the economic interests of International Telephone and Telegraph," Ferguson writes.