oouDocuments on the We stop for lunch at the Oregon Trail Diner in Baker City: a prime rib which refuses to part at all under my knife, and so remains uneaten. Hey-ho. Two thumbs down for the Oregon Trail Diner. [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] July 15, 2009 (Wednesday) Salt Lake City (Utah) — Boise (Idaho) MY posted diary arouses some skepticism. Jonathan B. comments: “A poor night on the rollaway” — Okay, so let’s get this straight.

You’re sharing a luxus suite with the hottest girl in town, but you’re sleeping on some rubbishy camp bed? I don’t mean to be vulgar, butehrm! Paperwork all morning, then we drive north to Boise in Idaho. At six-fifteen pm we reach the Red Feather Lounge in 8th Street in Boise; I wait outside as our first guests turn up.

All goes well until two journalists of the Boise Weekly (a free sheet) also arrive, “Nate” and a female who insists on invading our private room, uninvited, taking photos of guests, and who then tries to tape an interview with me; she loudly calls me a Nazi and anti-Semite, and we accordingly refuse admission both to her and her friend. (“Nate” has tried yesterday to get the location. Following our security routine, I told him to come to 6th Street this evening and phone again).

Rachel, the female, says she recognized me by chance while sitting at the bar, which is rather implausible. Jae later identifies the noxious pair from the Boise Weekly website by name. Perhaps unfortunately Jae lets fly a string of well-chosen invective at Rachel, the dumpy little Jewish reporter-female, and we shall certainly not hear the last of that in the media; I lecture Jae about that and urge her not to do it again.

Upset by the obscenities uttered by the Journaille , some of our guests have left before I begin speaking. Back at the Hilton Inn afterwards, I find that one of them, Joe D , has emailed: I would like to thank you for coming to Boise. I want to apologize for leaving the discussion before it started. I was really looking forward to hearing you speak. I have lived and worked in the valley my entire life.

I had hoped for a smooth event, but instead had a camera shoved in my daughter’s and my face along with constant drool of obscenities from the reporter’s foul mouth. Fearing media smear and loss of my job I did not feel it was appropriate to continue to subject either myself or my daughter to the reporter’s crude disruption so I chose to leave.

I reply: I am so sorry about this evening’s minor fracas with the two Jewish journalists “Nathan” [ Nathaniel Hoffman ] and “Rachel” [ Rachael Daigle ]. They were not invited by us, and of course we could not allow them to stay after “Rachel” insulted me to my face outside in the street. We had an interesting talk and discussion afterwards, and have just got