Overnight, his 2000 work, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," had become an Osama book.Uhh... CNN? Check. BBC? Check. Al Reuters? Check. Pacifica? Check.In gray slacks, plaid shirt and black slippers, Blum padded around his one-bedroom apartment on Connecticut Avenue. A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '50s hung on his kitchen wall. Bookshelves bowed under the weight of secret histories of the CIA. The cord on his prehistoric phone let him roam across the living room. He'd already done CNN and MSNBC. A guy from the New York Post knocked on the door to take pictures. The BBC rang, then Reuters and Pacifica Radio stations on both coasts.
Bush hit the nail on the head when he said "you're either with us or against us."