…when the subject was immigration, Mark, I assure you that I wasn’t dishing anything out at the time. I said merely what I feel deeply — which is that, as a Jew, I have great difficulty supporting a blanket policy of immigration restriction because of what happened to the Jewish people after 1924 and the unwillingness of the United States to take Jews in. That didn’t seem to me to be deserving of boos. But I got ‘em, and I took ‘em.

Oh, and to the e-mailers who are accusing me of using a “pejorative” term when I describe people like Mark as “restrictionists,” please note that Mark himself uses the word “restrictionist” and take a chill pill.