Kimball,
Without disagreeing with your position I must say it seems to me that you’ve done little more than dusted off your equally acerbic Susan Sontag obit from FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE circa 2004 changing little for the record but the characters.
I quote the first graf:

Susan Sontag: An Obituary
By Roger Kimball
NewCriterion.com | Wednesday, December 29, 2004

When a friend called me yesterday morning with the news that Susan Sontag had died at the age 71, just about the first thing I thought was, “well, we’ll have a huge, hagiographical, front-page obituary tomorrow in The New York Times.” Check to see if I am correct. In the meantime, as you prepare yourself for the Times’s litany about 1) what a penetrating critical intelligence Sontag wielded and 2) what a “courageous” and challenging “dissident” voice she provided (those quotation marks are proleptic: let’s see if the Times uses those words), here is another “courageous,” “penetratingly intelligent” dissident voice, that of Salman Rushdie, who provided this bouquet in his capacity as President of the PEN American Center: