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We'll have to agree to disagree. I have read Schoch's book ("Voices..."; haven't got a good start on "Voyages..."), think I've got the JA West (who is a fanatical Anti-Bush demagogue last I bothered to check) book, and definitely enjoy my copy of that Sphinx video in which they appear (apart from Richard Hoaxland's segment on the non-face on Mars; at least Schoch gets the last word on that, stating for the record that he doesn't think that the Sphinx was built by ETs or people from Atlantis).

Rainer Stadelmann stated four years ago (and a little while before, and since) that Khufu (not Khafre) built the Sphinx at Giza, and naturally enough rejects Schoch/West et al's view that the Sphinx predates the Giza pyramids and the Egyptian dynastic period. IMHO, that was in part an antidote for the Egyptian texts (long known, not "translated" by Sitchin or something like that) from the New Kingdom (copied from an Old Kingdom text) and quoted by JAW that state that Khufu repaired the Sphinx, which was already in existence.

Schoch's view about the antiquity of the Sphinx and one of the nearby temples are based on geology (he's a geologist) and I generally support those. Khufu did build the Great Pyramid, using slave labor (not the Israelites; the pyramids they worked on were Middle Kingdom mudbrick structures); Zahi "Zowie" Hawass' claim that Egypt was a wonderful fantasyland where no one ever was held in slavery is so unutterably stupid I can hardly stand it. Lehner's finding of some villages constructed near the pyramid site doesn't mitigate against slavery -- obviously the slaves had to sleep at night and be fed and so on. But if Lehner bucks Hawass (and Lehner used to be an Edgar Cayce devotee; even wrote a small book for the ARE) he'll be kicked off the plateau.

Hawass seems to still refer to Stadelmann as "my good friend", so I don't think there's been any adverse reaction to his paper on the Sphinx. It actually serves as a defense against JAW, Schoch, and the radical redating they offer.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

We can at least agree that HawASS is an idiot. For the reason you state, and one or two of my own.
If the Egyptians did indeed build it, we have yet to discover the method.

The Sphinx faces its own image. Not Leo in the sky in 10,500 BC, the one on the ground... the one drawn by Churchill on a dinner napkin. It is bowing toward Mecca.