[lbo-talk] Josh Marshall: Hitchens=Orwell

[Brad DeLong]

>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/....(May 29th, 2003 --
>3:02 AM EDT //.............
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>
>"Sorta, kinda, not-really money quote from Chris
>Hitchens' review of Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars ...
>
>'I think it is only for strict party reasons that
>[Blumenthal] fails to mention Roger Tamraz and James
>Riady and all Clinton's other thick-envelope direct
>donors, and concentrates instead on saying (at
>excruciating length) that Whitewater produced no
>smoking gun. This may be true, though it is not true
>that the Clintons ever acted as if they had nothing to
>hide or nothing to fear.'
>
>People's evidence #492 that Orwell really does matter.
>And why it would have been nice to have him around in
>the late 90s, or maybe even in editing this review.

You've misread Marshall. Marshall's point is that Orwell would have 
torn Hitchens into shreds and gobbets...