Take the following as truth: In The New Yorker , Gore Vidal defends Seymour Hersh's Kennedy-bashing  The fact that [Hersh has] found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge is hardly his fault.
Then the following statement: "Gore Vidal's defence of Seymour Hersh alienated him from much of the American Elite." is true, false, or inconclusive?