On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> "And now the drive is to delegitimize Israel. An English lefty is
> never more
> comfortable, never more deliciously smug than when attacking
> Israel. It's
> anti-Semitism with a clear conscience."
>
> Martin Amis in Radar, who, along with discredited chum Hitchens,
> believes
> that the Arab hordes are upon us, and that this may be "the
> beginning of the
> end."
>
> <http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/02/martin_amis_1.php>
Yuck. And it was Chris Lehmann, an otherwise fine intelligent fellow (and husband of Marxist editor Ana Marie Cox) who prodded him into saying all this.
Funny what people see. Gawker's take on this interview was all about how Tina Brown cured Amis of the curse of unfuckability.
Doug