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Not Even A Hedgehog: The Stupidity of Ronald Reagan
Slate ^ | 6-7-2004 | Christopher "Loved By So Many on FR" Hitchens

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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To: King Black Robe

Comparing hitchens with fred phelps is an insult to................Nevermind


21 posted on 06/07/2004 11:01:21 AM PDT by bad company (free Khashayar)
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To: LincolnLover
He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see

Wow! Talk about mean spirited! Imagine being married to this guy!?? Time for a quick annulment!

23 posted on 06/07/2004 11:02:03 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: Eva

There you go!!!! exactly right.!!!


24 posted on 06/07/2004 11:03:06 AM PDT by marty60
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To: LincolnLover
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.
Hitchens was on of the few center-left voice to take a principled stand on the Clinton presidency--yes, and for that he deserves great credit. I personally agree with his defense of the Iraq war part II. He is a rare creature in this political environmnet: an independent thinker.
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.
Patty-Patty Buke-Buke is his current incarnation is an unreconstructed nativist: anti-free trade and anti-globalist to a degree redolent of the Seattle anti-WTO prostestors, anti-immigration to a degree redolent of France's Jean-Marie Le Penn, and often anti-Israel. He used to be different: I used to enjoy him before he went over to the dark-dark-dark side.

He richly deserves the contempt we so generously heap upon him. He earned it. To deny him what is plainly his due would be wrong on so many levels. Hitchens, on the other hand, has made no such effort.
25 posted on 06/07/2004 11:03:14 AM PDT by Asclepius (protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
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To: LincolnLover
His writing in this case is more like Hunter S. Thompson. The idiot Seann Penn also produced a written article not long ago which read like Thompson's work.

If Thompson's not ghost writing this stuff he deserves a royalty check.

I used to like Thompson even though I disagreed with his politics. He's now just a limosene liberal who once trained his dog to bite Nixon's balls. Now he's just a mean drunk who pays someone else to train his dog not to piss on the stuff he's bought.

26 posted on 06/07/2004 11:03:23 AM PDT by blackdog (I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
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To: martin_fierro
not that there are any non-ballistic missiles

Sure there are, every fighter jet in the world carries non ballistic missiles. There are also theater ballistic missles as well as ICBMs.

Just one more example of how ignorant these people are.

Anti-Administration polemics where Hitchens main bread and butter during the Reagan years, and, as always, focused on the usual 80's hobbyhorses: Latin America, South Africa, Communism and, as it goes without saying, those rascally capitalists. How silly even the issues look now and how right Reagan was about them. I imagine that in 20 years the Lefts caterwauling about Palestine, Kyoto, GM crops and the UN will look just as silly. Chris does not realize it but he just write his own epitaph.

Never forget the Comrade Chris and his ilk think the USSR an anomaly in the world historical development of Socialist Man. With it gone there is just one less bit if contrived evasion and rhetoric they need not arm themselves with. Though it is wrong to say that ?many on the left" were glad to see it go - they where (and are) heartbroken.

Like all mean drunks, he is also a sentimentalist and a self righteous blowhard.

27 posted on 06/07/2004 11:04:30 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: LincolnLover

Why do you post this crap on this site? Have you no shame?


28 posted on 06/07/2004 11:05:29 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
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To: LincolnLover

You know, I really think we need to consider a ban on Slate like the one DU has. The fact is, you guys have helped keep the site afloat.


29 posted on 06/07/2004 11:06:14 AM PDT by sharktrager (Insanity: To continue repeating the same act, each time expecting a different result.)
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To: LincolnLover
I remember Hitchens being particularly nasty to Reagan during the 80's, but I have to admit I thoroughly enjoy his writing in recent times when he has turned his guns on those who've deserved it.

I would've hoping he'd manage to hold his tongue on the occasion of The Great One's passing. Guess I'd given him a little too much credit.

30 posted on 06/07/2004 11:06:47 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: LincolnLover
Years ago, I subscribed to The Nation. Every week, Hitchens and Alexander Cockburn would rip into each other. Quite unpleasant at times. (I stopped subscribing to The Nation when I got tired of my weekly collection of liberal shibboleths.)

I think Hitchen's star here rose when he came out very pro-war on terrorism. He left The Nation. His book on Clinton, No One Left to Lie To, was extremely good. Nasty, but it's not like Clinton didn't deserve it. (In the book, Hitchens details the Juanita Broderick case and alludes to another such incident.)

31 posted on 06/07/2004 11:07:20 AM PDT by megatherium
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To: Izzy Dunne

A ballistic missile refers to the fact that the trajectory is largely defined by ballistic mechanics. Steerable re-entry vehicles like the MX are still referred to as ballistic missiles, since the amount that they can be steered is fairly small. The gross profile of the flight is determined by the angle, strength and duration of boost.

The other type would be cruise missiles, which fly in air and are completely controllable.


32 posted on 06/07/2004 11:07:28 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: Izzy Dunne
...not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault)...

Have another glass of scotch and contemplate the 'cruise missile,' Mr. Hitchens.

33 posted on 06/07/2004 11:08:04 AM PDT by Petronski (Some leftists find Bush's very existence to be a "constant oppressive force in their daily psyche.")
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To: LincolnLover

>>... I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information.<<

The Pentagon Papers were needful information?


34 posted on 06/07/2004 11:09:11 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Nonstatist
He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see.

It is perhaps relevant that his first wife dumped him.

35 posted on 06/07/2004 11:10:00 AM PDT by Restorer
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To: Kaslin

It's by Christopher Hitchens, posted in Slate. If you need a barf alert on top of that, it's time to check into some AA meetings, or something :^)


36 posted on 06/07/2004 11:11:34 AM PDT by dangus
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To: LincolnLover
Hitchens is brilliant. He's an old school curmudgeon with no shame. I'm glad he is who he is.
37 posted on 06/07/2004 11:12:11 AM PDT by zarf
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To: Nonstatist

Patti Davis wrote a lovely article about him that's on pmsnbc, but she also wrote an earlier one (I think it was for her father's birthday?) that was also touching.

She concedes that she demanded something more than what he could give and couldn't appreciate until the end what he could and did give.

So it sounds as though Patti grew up and became a tolerant and caring person.

Too bad for Hitchens. Tolerance means that he thinks that we are at liberty to obey him or suffer the consequences. He has a long wait.


38 posted on 06/07/2004 11:13:34 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: Petronski

Mr.Hitchens, it's not the "Democratic Party". It's the Democrat Party. I have no idea why some people who are professional journalists insist on using such a phrase? My daughter claims it's because the more letters a word has, the more stock it has with the ignorant.


39 posted on 06/07/2004 11:14:12 AM PDT by blackdog (I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
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To: Asclepius
>>>What we cheer on this site is reasoned, intelligent discourse<<

Intelligent discourse is ordinarily not prefaced by, "Dude".

40 posted on 06/07/2004 11:14:50 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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