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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:22 AM Original message |
Hitchens profile in the New Yorker reveals him to be a deranged sadist |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. It will only confirm my opinion of him, but |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I hope it comes online. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I was just thinking something similar. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. The pathetic thing is, he thinks he's a hero. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. He does seem to suffer from delusions of grandeur. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
54. Sounds like a substance abuser, with a bad case of "grandiosity" |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. My thoughts exactly |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. How he got a reputation as a leftist, I'll never know. |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. He is anti-choice too?? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I doubt he changed his position. He and Hentoff were famous for being |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:05 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. This is too funny |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. He got that reputation as a columnist for The Nation back in the 1980s |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. I wonder if CH had the chance back in the 30's to take on |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. Just read counterpunch. Alexander Cockburn's emails are |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Thanks for that! |
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tenshi816 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. This might sound weird, |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Isn't Peter rabidly right-wing? |
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tenshi816 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 02:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
45. He's definitely conservative with a small "c", |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 02:25 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Nice family. |
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young_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. We skip Bill Maher when he's on |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
11. Hitch had one good line back when people read him, re: Ayn Rand. |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
12. "You're a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. you beat me to it |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. Great minds think alike. Galloway's slap upside Hitchen's head is a |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
15. Isn't it amazing how these drunken saps like Hichens envy Dean so? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:50 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Hitchens is a colonialist at heart. |
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shance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. Hi back* |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
19. Personally, I feel sorry for him |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. Hitchens is a RW toad, |
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StraightDope (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Fuck pity. |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 02:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
44. wasn't he rabidly anti-Clinton pre 2000????? |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. sry SD but I can't condemn burnt out drunks, I pity them all |
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StraightDope (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 10:31 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Fair enough... |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. Man, I wish he'd run for something. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. You mean for something other than Happy Hour at Tapatini's? |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. If he self-destructs like that because of a disagreement at a party, |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
25. So he doesn't care about anybody who disagrees with him, but DOES care |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. The sad thing is, he wrote The Trials Of Henry Kissenger, which |
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librarycard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 01:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
41. that was excellent |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
31. The Onion had Hitch pegged years ago: |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
33. The contrast is that those bearded nuts |
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Marnieworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
34. He was a total asshole on Real Time w/Maher recently |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
36. HItchens has his uses. He hates Kissinger. Look what he wrote |
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Stand and Fight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
37. He is not a Sadist. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. He does seem to take pleasure in bullying people. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
38. Who knew? |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
39. And what was it he said about Mother Teresa? |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 10:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
49. read the book. he DETAILS how she was beholden to that uber scum |
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librarycard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
40. BJs are as American as apple pie |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
42. Read Galloway on Hitchens |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
50. He's a horrible, horrible person |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
51. That he has not yet drunk himself to an early grave is the real tragedy. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
52. On Bill Maher he uses his superior knowledge of historical facts to |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
53. Wow, to think I was a fan of this guy back in the mid-80s, when |
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delete_bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
55. Just when I thought my level of revulsion was maxed out, |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
56. kick |
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