you spoke of your admiration for dwight macdonald. the only thing with which i agree with leon shrouds the about is when he said everybody has the right to be stupid but comrade mcdonald abuses the privilege. are am glad you are on so that america can see who writes for the new york times. but to the question that i called to ask, you said when you were making a speeches for one of your books that if we went to war with iraq you would not pay your taxes. where do you get off? >> guest: it was iran, not iraq. i wrote an article for the nation magazine that said i would not pay my taxes. that is correct. >> host: what about his back on liberal journalism writing for the new york times? >> guest: i don't think the n.y. times can be considered a liberal newspaper. remember it was one of the chief propagandas or cheerleaders for the war in iraq. it had to write a mayor culpa afterwards. it completely missed the looming financial meltdown because instead of walking into poor neighborhoods where families were being given some prime mortgages