Write a review of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, win a Prius?

AW&CP author Thomas MacNamee takes his defense of his book to a new venue, but luckily he remembered to bring his F-bombs along:
What is this, some sort of band of morons with pitchforks, none of whom is able to understand that my book is not a suck piece? that in fact, vividly available to the perspicacious reader--a type of whom there have been a great many--I have shown Alice to be as YOU see her, manipulative, self-aggrandizing, media-hungry? How is it that you are unable to understand this in my book? Is the only thing that you would understand something like ALICE WATERS IS A MANIPULATIVE, SELF-AGGRANDIZING BITCH? Is that how you think things get moved forward in the real world? Do you sit up in the top of redwood trees too? Please, whoever you are--I do not know to whom I'm writing this--I do seriously urge you to take some time to reflect on how real change is really effected in this world. My "take" on Alice--which you've apparently continued to miss entirely--is the sort of understanding that does move things forward: She's human, she's famous, she's influential, she's manipulative, she's getting a lot done, you may not like her, I may not like her, but this is how it works, folks, like it or not, this is how it works. It's vulgar, it's oversimplified, it's mediagenic, it's democracy. It's not how Berkeley's tastemaking morality-making oligogracy would wish it to be. It's merely human nature. Alas, at its nearly-best. Yeah, oh, and, sir, or madam, or mademoiselle, fuck you and the Prius you rode in on.
Given my lack of ability with language, I would welcome your help in parsing what this means, or at least helping me remember where I left my Prius.

Comments

[jack-ruby]

would it help if he knew you drink shlitz?

[Chris Perrin]

It means "You aren't smart or observant enough to realize that I, the mighty THOMAS MACNAMEE have present the truth about Alice Waters."

The truth being that she's manipulative and all the rest.

To which I can respond with a firm "eh." I still like what she did to the restaurant industry.