Or the extreme right is becoming more and more leftwing. Witness the appearance of Christopher Hitchens on the Drudge Report this weekend, parrotting the Safire line on ChinaGate. Hitchens bemoaned the fact that the Clintonoids "had sold our nuclear secrets" to the Chinese. He warned of the rise of crazy religious cults (of neither Maoist nor, yes he said it, Stalinist origins) in Beijing and predicted that in 10 years a "gang of crackpots" could be running China, with our nuclear weapons aimed right back at us. Holy smokes. Even the dredful Drudge was speechless. By the way, the Hitchen bit on China was replayed all day on FoxNews, including a snip that followed the observations of a rather pale Katrina vanden Heuvel on the "Kremlin Crisis." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it just a year or so ago that KvH commissioned one of my favorite writers, Robert Sherrill, to pen a nasty cover piece The Nation on the evils of Rupert Murdoch? Times change.
JSC
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