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 ::::Taken as a whole the article can fairly to be said to be rather self-indulgent - though your reference to ""his self-indulgent nature"" is absurdly sweeping. But disproof on one Israeli mailing list is not the issue:  
 :::::""...within hours, the internet - a vile institution which I do not use - was awash with stories that the United States had banned my entry to America because of my critical articles about the Bush administration or because I had long ago interviewed bin Laden or because I was so horrible that no democracy would ever let me stain its front doormat.  This rubbish followed me round the world. In Australia to launch my book, I was asked - on 10 radio and television shows and in four lectures - how it felt to be banned from the United States. I must have spent a total of two hours collectively explaining that this was untrue. I had simply travelled on an old passport that was no longer valid for entry to the US. It was useless. In Scotland, a university academic introducing me to his audience by announcing that my articles 'must at last have got up the nose of the Bush administration' because I had been banned. The internet bullshit followed me to Dublin and then to Cork and then to Belfast. Nothing, it seemed, could switch off the message.""  
 ::::Remember too that this is the guy who some people dislike enough that the internet term Fisking was coined.   "