Dinesh D’Souza is whacking back at critics and not doing it as effectively as he might. He writes:

My fellow AOL blogger Scott Johnson of Powerline has written a lengthy review of my book The Enemy at Home which was published in the New Criterion. I probably wouldn’t have seen it–I thought the New Criterion went out of business years ago–but it’s been reprinted elsewhere.

No, no, no. If you want to sneer loftily at the footling irrelevant obscurity of the publication you’ve been eviscerated by, the tone to adopt is that of the late and magnificently pompous British Prime Minister Edward Heath. It was always a source of pride to me when, following some en passant subordinate clause, the letters page would receive a missive from Sir Edward beginning:

It has been brought to my attention that your columnist Mark Steyn…

In other words, “I’m far too grand to read your publication but…”