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Christopher Hitchens' Journey: The evolution of a leftist.
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| Tuesday, March 25, 2003
| By Scott Galupo and Daniel Wattenberg
Posted on 03/25/2003 5:23:11 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
To: JohnHuang2
Re: Mr.Hitchens
"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things."
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:32:49 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Lessons of life needn't be fatal)
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:36:03 AM PST
by
syriacus
(Cultural Diversity..... Iraqis using WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST...as human shields.)
To: G.Mason
"Re: Mr.Hitchens "When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things."
Wisdom for all ex-Libs.
. . . when he is 'right'; no one says it better than Christopher Hitchens. . .
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:37:09 AM PST
by
cricket
To: JohnHuang2
"Mr. Cockburn is publicly accusing his old friend of homosexuality."
The ugly reality of the ugly 'Left'. Worse than the worst of hypocrits. . .
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:38:43 AM PST
by
cricket
To: JohnHuang2
I think that when Christopher Hitchens makes sense he should be listened to. He has a sharp wit and toungue. When he does not make sense or is operating from patently false premises and non facts he should be answered and ignored. I really hate idealogicol purity tests for people. Who gets to define the tests?
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:39:51 AM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: JohnHuang2
I drank whiskey with Hitchens at a Freeper event, and I came away with the impression that he hated Clinton even more than me.
I say he's in the club, even if he's still wrong about a few things.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:40:27 AM PST
by
dead
To: syriacus
My pleasure.
To: dead
His "goodbye to The Nation" was wonderful.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:45:49 AM PST
by
MEG33
To: harpseal
I couldn't say that better myself. I have yet to meet someone I agree 100% with on 100% of the issues, and I doubt that I ever will.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:47:59 AM PST
by
steveegg
(The French have removed 1 leg from the UN; it is now LN (League of Nations).)
To: JohnHuang2
"I think the left may have completely thrown away its moral claim"
Oh. You noticed that, Chistopher? Way to wake up, guy. I guess.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:48:09 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
To: JohnHuang2
Hitchens' journey can be mapped by following the trail of empty whiskey bottles behind him. He may have some things right, others wrong but most of all he's a lush. A drunkard who's dubious directions to the local pub are about as reliable as his thoughts on geopolitical happenings. Sorry, but there it is.
J
To: Sam Cree
He's been awake for a number of years now.
Hitchens Speech Free Republic Treason Rally - July 24th, 1999
And just look across the road and try and do what I do every day. Just make a resolution every day to drop it into the conversation
dont have to be a fanatic or a Clinton-Hater or anything, but the occupant of the Oval Office is a rapist, a war criminal, a psychopathic liar and a man who doesnt just respond to but solicits offers to sell his office to any bidder including foreign dictatorships.
This is an absolutely extraordinary record. Tomorrow in the Washington Post (at least if you read the wrong section of it, because it wont be in the A section), you will see that Mr. Ozanam Sali (a perfectly decent Sudanese businessman) is going to be given leave to sue in Washington, D.C. the $30,000,000 of your and my money which I think he deserves because his factory was blown up in Sudan on August the 20th last year because Clinton needed a target of opportunity on the day that Monica Lewinsky went back to the grand jury.
And he doesnt only abuse--in addition to being a rapist and a war criminalhe doesnt only abuse cruise missiles
Think of the money those cruise missiles costs. Think how many special prosecutors you could have gotten for the cost of just ONE cruise missile. And [applause walks on him] missiles to destroy the only pharmaceutical plant in one of the poorest countries in the world to save that face. To save that face.
Can you eat enough to vomit enough? Hows the menu coming?
The $30,000,000 will be money well spent. In the meantime, not just were people killed in that bombing and rocketing on the day Ms. Lewinsky returned to the grand jury, BUT the World Health Organization reports there is now what it calls a raging epidemic of meningitis in Sudan. Meningitis is one of the most ghastly ways to die if it kills you. If it doesnt, it will leave you blind and insane. It mainly attacks the young and the young adults. They reckon 20,000 at the moment and climbing.
Why should there be such an epidemic in Sudan in now? Why is the World Health Organization appealing? Primarily because the only pharmaceutical plant in the country was blown up to save THAT FACE. The face of a rapist
the face of war criminal
the face of a psychopathic and pathological liar
the face of a bully and a crook
and the face of a man who sold his office to any bidder but preferred to sell to foreign dictatorships...
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:56:29 AM PST
by
dead
To: steveegg
It was a characteristic of Stalinist, Maoist and other totalitariain regimes to demand political correctness in all things. If a person violated the party line they would be subject to the gulag. When we start thinking that a person must agree with us or be subject to banishment then we are engaging in the same falacy of the left.
The most we can hope for is that those we disagree with on issues will be "enlightened" and eventually agree with us. Of course they may hope the same for us. There are some who are doctinaire totalitarians whom I totally disagree with and can find no common ground to engage in rational discourse but these are usually those who do not think at all or discuss. I also have my hot buttons.
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posted on
03/25/2003 5:59:44 AM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: cricket
Mr. Cockburn is publicly accusing his old friend of homosexuality Mr. Cockburn's advances were probably rejected. Nice to hear one of my favorite writers being given credit for his insight, courage, and integrity. He shouldn't have to retract everything he has ever said in order to appease a particular group, and if he did, he would't be Hitchins
To: JohnHuang2
Hitchens has lately taken to hanging around with P. J. O'Rourke, whose lifestyle is far more conducive to his than are those of the prissy-PC leftists. Perhaps he's merely being properly influenced. >:)
-Eric
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posted on
03/25/2003 6:03:40 AM PST
by
E Rocc
(Fat, dumb, and stupid is no way to go though life, Mikey.)
To: dead
I drank whiskey with Hitchens at a Freeper event Oh, do I envy you...
To: dead
I agree that to a very large extent he has "woken up." I enjoy reading his elegant criticism of the Left, it's some of the best stuff around
However, it's a little frustrating that the fellow is still a leftist, and refuses to understand that leftist philosophy in and of itself has no moral authority. How such a clearly brilliant guy could be surprised that the American Left has "thrown away its moral claim" is a paradox, to me anyway.
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posted on
03/25/2003 6:10:58 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
To: JohnHuang2; dead
Hitchens is no doubt a decent and honorable specimen of the Left, but make no mistake: he is a committed man of the Left.
The fact that so many "conservatives" now find him appealing says more about our movement's ideological drift than it does about him.
He's fighting what he considers to be the last skirmishes in the Left's long war against "theocracy." Having essentially extinguished Christian civilization here in the West, is it any surprise that the old Left would turn its attention to the Islamic world?
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