It's all about Hitch

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Mon Oct 21 07:52:03 PDT 2002


I seem to recall that his previous departure from left solidarity, the 'snitchens' episode, just happened to occur at the time his previous book was released. This suggests a bit more than self-promotion is at work.

mbs

Come on-- "pathetic", he's out there selling a book on Orwell for gods sake. Of course there's self-promotion involved to stage his own little "Orwell in miniature defection".

My complaint is that so few on the Left, Michael Moore and a few others excepting, have so little sense these days of creative marketing with good timing.

-- Nathan Newman

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:11 AM Subject: It's all about Hitch

Doesn't anyone else find Hitch's endless self-promotion and publicity mongering over his "departure from the left" as really pathetic? Jesus, resign and move on already. His astonishing sense of self-importance and embarassing need to be noticed are really sad. And really, his columns were never *that* good ... witty, but never high on the "wow, that was insightful" scale ...

Chris Kromm Keep your eyes on the prize.



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