[lbo-talk] Galloway vs. Hitchens

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Tue May 17 19:08:02 PDT 2005


[one of those rare occasions when machismo can be a virtue]

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1486431,00.html>

Before the hearing began, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow even had some scorn left over to bestow generously upon the pro-war writer Christopher Hitchens. "You're a drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead.

"And you're a drink-soaked..." Eventually Mr Hitchens gave up. "You're a real thug, aren't you?" he hissed, stalking away.

[snip]

-- "To use a vocabulary is to change it." [Robert Brandom]



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