[lbo-talk] Zirin on Hitchens

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 22:14:12 PST 2010


Of course, Hitch has probably never done anything more strenuous in his life than falling off a bar stool.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> >From Dave Zirin's email newsletter Edge of Sports - will probably soon be
> available at: http://www.edgeofsports.com/
>
> Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool Nuance is the mortal enemy of essayist
> Christopher Hitchens. Whether it’s his rapturous support for Bush’s Iraq
> invasion or his best-selling dismissal (*God is NOT Good*) of religion,
> Hitchens will always eschew a surgical analysis for the rhetorical
> amputation. Beneath the Oxford education, he has become Thomas Friedman in
> an ascot, with all the subtlety of a blowtorch.
> <Snip>
>


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