Three Stooges: Who's Worst--Kissinger, Lott, or Law?

Slate.com ^ | 12/16/2002 | Christopher Hitchens

[sinkspur]

Hitchens thinks Mother Teresa was a fraud as well.

His Lushness hates everybody!

[dead]

Hitchens is a funny writer, but surely he must know that the confederacy was long expired before Strom Thurmond's run for the presidency.

[Maximum Leader]

Tell that to a black Mississippian who tried to register to vote in 1948.

[dead]

Tell that to a black Mississippian who tried to register to vote in 1948.

Any problems a black trying to vote had in 1948 were American problems, not Confederacy problems.

The Confederacy was long gone by then.

[RobRoy]

I gotta admit, Lott reminds me of the politician from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou."

"Is you is or is you aint my constityency?"

[billorites]

Hitchens thinks Mother Teresa was a fraud as well.

Refers to her as that "...corrupt, Albanian dwarf."

[dead]

You're right. There are glaring similarities.

[SoDak]

Actually, that guy reminded me of serpenthead the first time I saw that movie.

[TopQuark]

Yeh, when I read him, I often wish that his father showed him more love.

[F-117A]

clinton!

[pocat]

This article's written like a bad joke:

A Jew, a Protestant, and a Preist walk into a bar...

I agree with his views on Kissinger, disagree with him on Lott, and have no opinion on Law (haven't been following the story much) - but what's up with his anti-South tirade? Does he think Lincoln was a saint? What an idiot.

[WHBates]

Tell that to a black family trying to move into a Chicago suburb in the 60's, 70's, 80's or maybe even the 90's as they sift through the ruble of their' burnt out shell of a home.

I think this a good national debate we are embarking on; maybe some real truths will emerge?.... Nah, we'll keep lying to ourselves.

[grania]

I'll be a lonely voice here. Cardinal Law allowed the abuse of children to continue for decades, indeed he abetted it by moving the psychos posing as men of god from one parish to another. He didn't step down until it became obvious that the Church in Boston is taking a huge financial hit for this criminality.

The author of this article is just trying to convey from some perspective just how bad what was allowed to happen is. I concur.

[Feiny]

[ArcLight]

Hot damn! I love this guy. His comments on Lott are dead on. Conservatives are right to denounce his racism but they should go farther and point out that the Confederacy was a pack of traitors, and those nostalgic for them are nostalgic for treason. You go, boy!

[WHBates]

"The author of this article is just trying to convey from some perspective just how bad what was allowed to happen is."

You left out the word "WE".

[esopman]

I vote with you.

His Eminence, Law, is correctly noted by that wascally writer, Hitchens, as the worst of the Lot. Neither Henry nor Trent staked a claim to the moral high ground of the church. Law claimed to be in the service of the Most High, but in fact worshipped at the altar of the Most Low. "He is too low to kick at and too slimey to stomp on," to quote some local country boys.

It is tragic that the fruit of Law's toxic tree of deceit only feeds Hitchen's fertile pen and blinds him to the Gospel. Law will pay more dearly for all this than he can imagine in a million lifetimes...unless he repents.

Hitchens is correct here about the ranking of the relative evils as he was earlier about the Clintons in his "No One Left to Lie To." That said, never trust a liberal.

Blessings on Freepers Everywhere.

[witnesstothefall]

There were two opposing politicians in that film. Which one do you think resembles Lott? The Klansman?

[wingnuts'nbolts]

All of the above. OK, now what?