[lbo-talk] BHL overwrites on Zidane

[andie nachgeborenen]

It's a measure of how low Hitch has sunk that he
should now like BHL, a lightweight held down only by
his willingness to be a vulgar ideological hack, a
writer with integrity, style, or brains (such as Hitch
once had in spades).  Surely the old Hitch demolished
BHL somewhere? 

Rohatyn, well, what do you expect.  

In contrast, the other "new philosopher" (i.e., French
political writer who belately discovered the Gulag and
decided, with tremendous originality, that it followed
from Stalinist repression that communism is evil --
why didn't I think of that? Oh, because it's a non
sequiter, right) of any note, Andre Glucksmann, was/is
pretty thoughtful and wrote some stuff that is still
worth reading.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody besides the editors of the WSJ and AM
> actually like  
> > this guy? I've never heard anyone mention him
> without expressing  
> > boredom or disdain.
> 
> Christopher Hitchens likes him, and Felix Rohatyn
> adores him. At a  
> Council on Foreign Relations event
> <http://www.cfr.org/publication/ 
> 9755/in_the_footsteps_of_toqueville_audio.html>,
> Rohatyn addressed  
> him throughout as "BHL," using the French
> pronunciation, and gushed  
> about how brilliant he is.
> 
> Doug
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