Christopher Hitchens: Who is the real 'secularist?'

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[ProfShade]

Bush's Secularist Triumph The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, at 7:34 AM PT

Many are the cheap and easy laughs in which one could indulge at the extraordinary, pitiful hysteria of the defeated Democrats. "Kerry won," according to one e-mail I received from Greg Palast, to whom the Florida vote in 2000 is, and always will be, a combination of Gettysburg and Waterloo. According to Nikki Finke of the LA Weekly, the Fox News channel "called" Ohio for Bush for reasons too sinister to enumerate. Gregory Maniatis, whose last communication to me had predicted an annihilating Democratic landslide, kept quiet for only a day or so before forwarding the details on how to emigrate to Canada. Thus do the liberals build their bridge to the 20th century.

[cricket]

"This is a great read. . .I posted it myself earlier. . .it was pulled then; as it was already posted by Oldtimer2. . .mistake in the spelling in the first post; has this not coming up on the search. . .

Check out Oldtimer2's earlier post.

[krogers58]

ping for later

[AJS]

Wonderful phraseology, especially coming from a (reforming?) leftist.

It is biting to the Dims when it comes from Hitchens... they cannot stand it. And he is on a tear. Warms my heart.

[SugarLandTexas]

Agreed. Like him or loathe him, Hitchens is the most intellectually honest commentator out there. He has taken positions on certain issues that got my blood boiling, but his points are always well thought out and he cites his facts meticulously.

[Cutterjohnmhb]

I miss the old time lefty atheist liberals. I disagreed with them often, but they are much more genuine and thinkers than this new breed of left thats almost animal -istic.

[LiberalBassTurds]

If you want to see the faces of those described in this excellent article click this FR link.

[cricket]

"It is biting to the Dims when it comes from Hitchens... they cannot stand it. And he is on a tear. Warms my heart."

Mine as well. Add to that the pleasure of reading the 'Hitchens' finely crafted word art. . .

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

A good read...especially from Slate.

[Mount Athos]

Great article.

[MHGinTN]

I was especially touched by the following: From the first day of the immolation of the World Trade Center, right down to the present moment, a gallery of pseudointellectuals has been willing to represent the worst face of Islam as the voice of the oppressed. How can these people bear to reread their own propaganda? Suicide murderers in Palestine—disowned and denounced by the new leader of the PLO—described as the victims of "despair." The forces of al-Qaida and the Taliban represented as misguided spokespeople for antiglobalization. The blood-maddened thugs in Iraq, who would rather bring down the roof on a suffering people than allow them to vote, pictured prettily as "insurgents" or even, by Michael Moore, as the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers. If this is liberal secularism, I'll take a modest, God-fearing, deer-hunting Baptist from Kentucky every time, as long as he didn't want to impose his principles on me (which our Constitution forbids him to do). C. Hitchens

It is an interesting dichotomy the left maintains in order to feed their inward bitterness and ahtred for a man who they accuse of preventing Gore from succeeding in stealing the 2000 election! Of course, no self-aggrandizing democrat liberal would admit that that is precisely what they are spewing about constantly, that Gore was prevented from stealing an election. Hitchens has a way of cutting through the spittle sprayed forth from the left.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump...

[ProfShade]

Wow! What a collection of losers and freaks! I mean, how sorry are you, really, when all you can do is rip out a page from a notebook and scrawl on it in ball point...This was a huge belly laugh here. Thanks for the link.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Hehe my pleasure ProfShade. I agree with your assessment 100% Glad you got a laugh out of these knuckleheads too. :^) Thanks for the post!

[Carling]

I agree about Hitchens. Sometimes after a TV appearance, I am fuming at him. Other times, I think he represented my point of view perfectly.

I think that is the sign of an intellectually honest commentator. There are few like him in the media, be it alt media or Lamestream media.

[McGavin999]

I think Hitch is horrified by what has happened to the left. Frankly, so am I.

[T'wit]

>> "Fifty-four plus million Americans voted for health care, they voted for energy independence, they voted for unity in America, they voted for stem-cell research, they voted for protecting Social Security,"

Sixty million voted to keep you and your party in a powerless minority.

[T'wit]

#17 -- Freaky. I wrote that reply in a different thread. What is it doing here??

[lainde]

bump for later

[Bellflower]

I am a born again Christian who prays for and loves Christopher. I pray for the day when his logical thinking and honesty will draw him to God (by God's grace).