Posted on 06/07/2004 10:44:19 AM PDT by LincolnLover
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"...only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard..."
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Someone filled with hatred for both Mother Theresa and Ronald Reagan who is cheered by some on this site?
Truth is stranger than fiction, indeed.
Hitchens is a mean drunk.
Someone filled with hatred for both Mother Theresa and Ronald Reagan who is cheered by some on this site?Dude. What we cheer on this site is reasoned, intelligent discourse. Hitchens sometimes provides it.
Hitchens as we all know was apoligist for the Khmer Rouge and claimed Kissinger killed 500,000 civilians by bombing remote, unpopulated areas where lo a behold KR units and NVA bases were located.
He also used soem pretty dishonest math.
Peter Robinson blew Shawcross and hitchens' ass away in a American Spectator article back in 1980.
Time and again you'll see "reasoned, intelligent" commentary dismissed on this site because of the source and the source alone (e.g, the publication in which an article appears, the member join date if it's a comment made by a member/"disruptor", etc).
This, however, doesn't seem to apply to Hitchens, who gets a free pass for his willingness to bash Bill Clinton a few years back.
Pat Buchanan, for example, makes excellent points from time to time but you won't get 5-10 replies deep into one of his posts without someone dismissing his points soley because of who the source is. Why such a despicable person as Hitchens gets a pass is quite...odd.
Excuse me?
My understanding is that a ballistic missile's path is determined strictly by ballistics - weight, firing time, firing angle, engine power, etc.
A guided missile's path can be adjusted by sensors, on the missile or on the ground. It is thus not a ballistic missile.
Am I wrong?
So his intellect is not to be trifled with, but his personality is rife with flaws. That's how I approach him. One might argue that the two, intellect and personality, cannot be separated, but I would suggest that with a little careful navigation, they can be. He seems to take particular delight in personal attacks like this one on Reagan or the one you mention on Mother Theresa. He's also attacked Henry Kissinger with incredible vehemence.
I take what I want from Hitchens. Where he's instructive, I listen to him. Where he's a nut, I ignore him.
I often look upon him the same way I fondly remember the late radical lawyer William Kunstler. He was as far to the left as anyone I've ever come across in modern times, but he had a certain way of framing issues -- and an absolute loathing of government in general -- that made him quite a fascinating character.
What do you expect from a political group which believes Carter was a good Presient?
Where is it?
Kind of makes Hitchens the Fred Phelps of the moment -- a guy saying mean things at a funeral. How tacky.
can you tell when he's hungover from his writ?
Tou have to admit even though he goes off the deep end on a regular basis He is a great writer. He has also proven that even a blind pig finds an acorn every once and a while.
You're correct. That's why we have ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
That is the distinction. You are correct, the "opposite" of ballistic missile is guided missile.
More importantly, a ballistic missle's course includes fre-fall - ballistics. A guided missle's path involves none.
He's a Marxist. And makes no bones about it.
"So his intellect is not to be trifled with, but his personality is rife with flaws. That's how I approach him. One might argue that the two, intellect and personality, cannot be separated, but I would suggest that with a little careful navigation, they can be."
Given he apparently has trouble with such intellectually challenging topics like Basic Math, I'd say what you have is a mean, bitter, exceedingly vindictive personality that suffers from self loathing.
Like a blind pig, Hitchen's finds the occasional acorn, but who has the time to watch for hours on end for that seminal event?
Not me. I've got grass growing that needs, and deserves, far more attention than Christopher Hitchens.
I was thinking the same thing about Hitchens, he takes particular delight in personal character assassination. He knows he has a gift with words and gets little attention for a lot of his writing, but his caustic personal attacks always get a lot of press.
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