THE GUARDIAN VERSUS AARONOVITCH, KAMM AND WHEEN

So the boys lost, but apropos Chomsky's apologist stance on Srebrenica I was reminded of this:

He says he is not a 'crypto-communist'. But of course he does! What else could he say? A pickpocket does not go to the races wearing a label 'pickpocket' on his coat-lapel, and a propagandist does not describe himself as a propagandist.

Orwell on Konni Zilliacus in Tribune, 17 January 1947.