Hitchens as the love child of Safire

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Nov 16 16:58:43 PST 2001


Dennis Breslin wrote:
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> To invoke the spectre of Hitchens, it is all to do with the way the
> left has marginalized itself,

This is literal non-sense. _The Left (at the present time) is a non-existent entity, and any statements about "the left" (positive or negative) are mere intellectual farts for self-gratification, not comments on any aspect whatever of the real world.

Since I presume Breslin considers himself a "leftist," this statement is either, as I said, a mere intellectual fart or it applies as much to Breslin himself as to anyone else.

Dennis Breslin disagrees with X, Y, & Z. But he lacks the energy, the intellect, the knowledge, or the courage to develop that disagreement, so he pisses on unnamed people and preens himself on his superiority.

Carrol



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