more on Hitchins and Powell's "Bitch"

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/bitch04132006.html


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The camera then turns to a seedy, corpulent figure with a five-day shadow and a shirt that had seen extended service. This heap of bohemian flotsam , it emerged, was Hitchens.

Matthews (startled): "His what?"

Hitchens (still slurred): "His bitch, why aren't you, why are you calling Colin Powell a good soldier ..."

In subsequent replays Matthews edited out Hitchens' description.

It seems likely there will be a hiatus in MSNBC's relationship with Hitchens. His description of Armitage's role, as Powell's assistant, had some metaphorical resonance, but even in these days of robust public name-calling the networks don't care to have a former deputy secretary of state publicly identified as a catamite.

Of course it takes one to know one. Hitchens' journalistic role these days is to act as Dick Cheney's bitch with an energetic fervor that Armitage could only envy.

He probably does not dwell too lengthily on these aspects of his past in briefings with Cheney's aides, but Hitchens in former times would dwell in detail on his own personal services to Tom Driberg, a British Labor MP of notoriously gay preferences, of whom Winston Churchill once said, "Driberg, Driberg, isn't he the man bringing sodomy into disrepute?"
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men and their games - - while the world's ice is melting

[boobooday]

1. Hitchens is unhitched

And it ain't pretty.

Edit: And I love the remark at the end about how Hitchens is Cheney's 'bitch.'

[AlCzervik]

2. can i ask a favor?

i've been out of the country for 2 weeks and i've just now heard about this whole thing, is there a clip of it somewhere? Please and thank you.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. try crooksandliars.com

[eleny]

4. K&R

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. A well educated drunkard is Hitch in a nutshell.

I would bet he had a few too many belts of scotch at lunch.

[11cents]

6. Geez, it's hard to know who's more disgusting ....

Hitchens himself or his ex-friends, including the equally gin-soaked Alexander Cockburn, taking the opportunity to call him a fag.

[eliphaiku]

7. Hitchens

Is there anyone more loathsome than a traitor to the class struggle?

[11cents]

8. They were both "traitors" to their own class

Hitchens is from a well-to-do background, and Cockburn's family are from the Anglo-Scottish nobility.

But when Cockburn was celebrating the right-wing militias in the 90's, was he a traitor to the class struggle, or was he supporting the interests of working-class whites?

[Supersedeas]

9. Popcorn anyone?