Like I said, I can’t blame the author. I am not in his position so I can only empathize from afar.
I use to shoot in matches with a friend who was a black conservative (he has since past). I emailed a ‘hit piece article’ to all my shooting club against the current _resident when he was running for office in ‘08. I got an EFFF YOU reply from him. He was not going to take anybody bad mouthing and preventing a black president from getting elected no mater if he was a MARXIST POS.
I understood from afar why he needed to vote for the guy. I still do. But it is no reason to vote for someone.
Well, of course, my real point is that Podheretz shouldn’t even be in the business of reviewing movies. He was a NY Post political editorialist as I remember and then suddenly he was moved to movies. But then The Times takes food critics and makes them political pundits. Go figure.
In any case, he is one of Disney’s most famous characters: a maroon!