Christopher Hitchens

[erpowers]

Christopher Hitchens is an idiot. I have been listening to an excerpt from the debate that is being replayed on Democracy Now. At first I was just thinking does this guy even read the papers then I just realized that he is an idiot. In response to a Katrina question Hitchens tried to claim that Bush could not order troops into action in states and that the governor has to ask the president for help. It had been proven days earlier that Blanco had asked the President for help and the President did not do anything. This debate took place about two weeks after the hurricane happened so he should have had his facts straight.

Also Hitchens tried to say that liberals were saying that the hurricane effort was slow because poor Arabs were given money by the government. First, that is not what liberal have been saying or are saying now. Liberals have been saying that Bush wasted money by starting a war that did not need to be fought. I know that Republicans will try to say that those two statements are the same, but they are not. Second, what poor arabs are being given money? It seems that most of the money being spent in Iraq is being given to Hallliburton and other companies like Halliburton.

To make things worse Hitchens went on to say that liberals and other who were criticizing Bush had no right to say that the people were treated poorly because they were black in that the people had not been identified yet. If the areas that were flooded were mainly black then it is easy to conclude that the people that died there were black. In addition, the majority of the people at the Super Dome and the convention center were black. Once again Christopher Hitchens is an idiot. It is just amazing to see that someone could be so stupid. Hitchens is a Jackass man!!

[SteppingRazor]

1. I've never understood how a supposed "contrarian"...

As he loves to call himself, could be so establishment-friendly. It just defies logic. If you're going to be iconoclastic and contrarian, don't you by definition have to be at your most incredulous when confronting the most powerful?

[ragin_acadian]

2. maybe the contrarian thingy is why he's always drunk,

or does interviews with a scotch in his hand. everyone else is sober, so he's just being contrary.

[SteppingRazor]

4. As an unrepentent drunk, I can't hold that against him.

:evilgrin:

[ragin_acadian]

8. ha!

a votre sonte :toast:

[submerged99]

6. exactly

Kind of how people like Dennis Miller fashion themselves to be rebels when all they are doing is reinforcing the views of power wielders.

[I Have A Dream]

7. He took a lot of heat for suporting the war in Iraq. I think that...

he received so much "abuse" from the left that he is now firmly in support of anything that B* does. (I get the magazine "The Nation", and he was a regular contributing writer for "The Nation" at the time that he came out in support of the war. He was absolutely abused (deservedly so) by the other Nation writers when he came out supporting B*'s illegal war. Because he has such a big ego, he can't ever admit that he was wrong about the war, and he'll never forgive the left for treating him the way it did.

He reminds me quite a bit of Clarence Thomas. Because of what he went through during his confirmation hearings, he became much, much more right than he would have been, in my opinion. (Don't get me wrong -- I think that he would have still be a staunch conservative, but I wonder whether he subconsciously takes the absolute extreme opposite of what the left would want just to get even with us for what he went through during his hearings.)

The mind works in mysterious ways!

[Veronicrat]

3. Origins of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" - Huxley

I was reading "Ape & Essence" the other night, by Adlous Huxley, and it seems that Karl Rove (he who must not me named- Rovedemort) is also a fan of his, but for all the wrong reasons. It is a really chilling tale this is, and mirrors to a large extent what is happening in our american society. In the second part, called "Script", the pshycologist says " All you need do is threaten your neighbor with any of the weapons of mass destruction. Their own panic will do the rest." and goes on to discuss a panic in new York City!
On the opposite page, the narrator says. "Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the dumb or studiedly jocular desparation of one who is aware of the obscene presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there arent any windows." Sounds like the astrodome to me.
And sounds like how the Bushies rule. Put fear into us.

I do think that Rovedemort is a student of Huxley's, but as i said for all the wrong reasons.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I used to respect him. Now I think the only thing smart about him

is the accent.

[noonwitch]

9. I've hated him since he started trashing Mother Theresa in Vanity Fair

It was so unnecessary and cruel.

[GayCanuck]

10. What the hell

ever happened to Hitch? I used to like him and now he is a total puss.

[bluedawg12]

11. Isn't he former socialist now neocon? n/t

[Julius Civitatus]

12. And idiot... and a major alcoholic

Just saying the truth.