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Conspiracy Theories: If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street Memo.
SLATE ^ | 6/21/05 | Christophe Hitchins

Posted on 06/21/2005 10:26:07 AM PDT by areafiftyone

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1 posted on 06/21/2005 10:26:07 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: prairiebreeze; Mo1

Bump for later read and thought you two might be interested in this.


2 posted on 06/21/2005 10:29:50 AM PDT by Peach
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To: areafiftyone

bookmark


3 posted on 06/21/2005 10:33:24 AM PDT by federal
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To: areafiftyone

Oh, I dunno...The DaVinci Code is better and more engaging than anything on TV. It beats the movie "BATMAN", I'll bet, and probably most Gollywood fare. I dig Art History and all that jazz.


4 posted on 06/21/2005 10:37:57 AM PDT by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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To: areafiftyone

The moron who produced these so-called "Downing Street Memos" lost all of his credibility when he admitted to creating them himself. There is NO PROOF that the originals ever actually existed and that they were "leaked" to him. The DUmmies might be buying it but I'm not. I remember Rather's National Guard memos. This is like deja vu all over again.


5 posted on 06/21/2005 10:42:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: areafiftyone

I absolutely ADORE Chris Hitchens. An excellent writer and fascinating man, as always his analysis is dead-on. I'd love, love, love to have dinner (and a drink or two) with him.


6 posted on 06/21/2005 10:44:41 AM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: purpleland
If you liked DVC, you should read Eco's The Name of the Rose. It's much better written and the history is accurate.
7 posted on 06/21/2005 10:46:50 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Peach

Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina to demand that we tell the al-Qaida forces in Iraq exactly when we intend to give up. Jones is the right-wing bigmouth who once wanted to rename French fries "freedom fries."

***This best describes Senator Dick Durbin, Ill. "He was a moral and political cretin..." when he said that re comparing US with nazis and other genocidal tyrants. Durbin "has been unable to stop being a moral and political cretin since."

I don't use Heinz on my Freedom Fries! Heinz doesn't go with Freedom. Heinz (funds) goes with Andy Warhol's degeneracy.


8 posted on 06/21/2005 10:50:21 AM PDT by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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9 posted on 06/21/2005 10:50:46 AM PDT by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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To: areafiftyone
As protagonist Jim Dixon observes in another context in Lucky Jim, it is remarkable for "its niggling mindlessness, its funereal parade

Aha!! What a racist comment!
Obviously, he believes that all blacks are brainless -- brain-dead even! -- and we should have a parade at their funerals!

TS
(Hey, it could be interpreted that way ... if a Republican wrote it ...)

10 posted on 06/21/2005 10:51:26 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: purpleland

Ollie North this morning on FNC called Durbin an aging anti-war protestor. LOL


11 posted on 06/21/2005 10:51:52 AM PDT by Peach
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To: twigs
I found the film version of The Name of the Rose memorable even though flawed.
12 posted on 06/21/2005 10:53:50 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: areafiftyone

Christopher Hitchens is just mean ....why does he laugh at the poor deluded liberals?


13 posted on 06/21/2005 10:53:59 AM PDT by woofie ("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!")
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To: twigs

"If you liked DVC, you should read Eco's The Name of the Rose. It's much better written and the history is accurate."

***Oh! I agree. The Name of the Rose is brilliant. Umberto Eco finally received a Nobel Prize in Literature, I believe.

Eco - Biography of Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, Eco, Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Milan, Bologna, Postmodern, Linguistics, Semiotics, Philology, Deconstruction, Misreadings, Island of the Day Before, Hyperreality, Piedmont ...
www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_biography.html Cached page 6/20/2005


14 posted on 06/21/2005 10:55:17 AM PDT by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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To: areafiftyone
They got to Hitchens!

I wonder what BFEE found in his file...

15 posted on 06/21/2005 10:55:25 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Trust but Verify

I do, too. I have to disagree with him about the DaVinci Code - I thought it was a good read - but I sure agree with everything else he says in this article. Even if there's a kernel of truth somewhere in the re-typed memos, it's meaningless.


16 posted on 06/21/2005 10:56:03 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: dead

LOL The DUmmies must have bombarded every outlet they could think of with e-mails.


17 posted on 06/21/2005 10:57:16 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: woofie

The DUmmies are calling him all sorts of names now. Ya know you can't disagree with them otherwise you get hate mail and nasty little phone calls - if you agree you are a hero and get flowers! ISN'T THAT SPEEEEEECIAL????


18 posted on 06/21/2005 10:59:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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A man named Morgan Reynolds, a former chief economist at the Bush Labor Department and now an instructor at Texas A&M

Ack! Number one, it's Prarie View A&M, which is not even close to being the same as TAMU. Number two, he's not even an instructor there; he's a professor emeritus because he had taught there for at least 10 years...
19 posted on 06/21/2005 11:01:09 AM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: dead

Well, it wasn't in his file, exactly. It was in this here copy of his file that I had my secretary type up on plain paper...no, really...


20 posted on 06/21/2005 11:01:29 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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