Doesn't matter. He's not telling all the truth anyway.

I'm kind of surprised it took this long for someone to get to him...hey seems like a good time to remind everyone about America's role in ruining democracy in Iran and ending up with those Ayatollahs, one of whom issued that fatwa against Rushdie...I'm sure you know all about that though

At some point in time this was to be expected. Mr. Rushdie said he felt safe within the US but I never could understand this. Violence and religious zealots of any sort or religion including the violently religious zealots can be found there and have a stronghold within some parts of the population. So maybe this was the wrong place to feel relatively safe in?