the solidarity that was shown with stalin rushdie by his dinner party back in the 80s would not be shownas the south park incident illustrated. everyone goes quietly about it these days. had to cancel an appearance at a literary festival in india a couple days ago. he would be the first to say is that even the tepid support he received almost 25 years ago he would not get now. >> guest: next call, 30 minutes left, comes from ohio. you are on booktv. >> caller: thank you for the work you have done and the risks you have taken on behalf of free speech. i would like to recommend to the viewers that if they want to see some really chilling examples of what could happen when political correctness is enacted into law they ought to nose around youtube and watch the encounters you had in canada. what i really want to ask you about is -- you list of the as one of your influences. i admire greatly and i wondered if you could comment a little bit about her and if you met her and you might be able to tell stories about her. >> guest: i usually run into her at these conferences were we are speaking a

is funny now but in 2013 when they're studying her rear end and her marriage, so on and so on, stalin rushdie wrote a poem about her. there's a lot of material here. lincoln has very little. but kim. i have to say i am one of the few critics that keeps hammering at the question that the crucial reason things can't be turned around is americans literally don't have the gray matter to do it. this is very impolite. there are one or two others saying it. one is phillip green. ville political scientist doing an article called farewell to democracy and he wrote what seized the critical mass of americans is historical amnesia and intellectual peculiarity. the result is politics of social self destruction. let's put it on the line. if you're stupid you can't do all that. in the aftermath of the crash of 2008 very few people promulgated the ideology that led to the crash got appointed as president's economic advisers. tim -- not as in the wall street financial leader has faced jail. indeed major corporate figures who brought the economy down work rewarded huge bonuses and some secured prestigious appo