"Hitchens' nervous breakdown"

steve philion philion at hawaii.edu
Fri Sep 27 06:56:17 PDT 2002


I don't really have a horse in this race, since Hitchens no longer appears in the Evening Standard, and I don't read the Nation, but is the resignation of a newspaper columnist really an appropriate occasion for people being so bloody nasty? It strikes me that if the guy has a drinking problem, or if he's had a breakdown, it's pretty bad taste to be gloating about it; if he hasn't, it's probably libellous.

--uhm, we're talking about a writer who slandered the holy hell out of people like Noam Chomsky in the aftermath of 911 with claims that he and others like him supported Al Qaeda as a liberating force...yada yada yada... The nervous breakdown comment was simply in jest, i.e. what the hell is going on with this guy that he is parroting propaganda about Al Qaeda and Saddam being bed buddies in any sense of the word or that Atta actually was in Czech at that time, something that seems highly suspect now. But when you're desperate as Bush to bomb the hell out of Bagdhad...you'll come up with anything...much like Condi and Rumsfeld do everyday... If I'm to believe Condi and Rums on this, then I'm also to believe them when they tell us about the 'nuclear' threat of Saddam....It's called war propaganda...they'll be floating out incubator babies soon enough...sad thing will be Hitchens will be castigating them for not doing it sooner...."I interviewed the lady who saw the babies gasping their last horrified gasps on the floor as the Iraqi soldiers violated the honor of American teenage girls...why is she being Ignored!!"

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