[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Quote of the Day by SoldiersGirl

[BunnySlippers]

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[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."

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this.

[cricket]

"Mr. Cockburn is publicly accusing his old friend of homosexuality."

The ugly reality of the ugly 'Left'. Worse than the worst of hypocrits. . .

[harpseal]

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?

[dead]

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.

[Sam Cree]

"I think the left may have completely thrown away its moral claim"

Oh. You noticed that, Chistopher? Way to wake up, guy. I guess.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

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

[E Rocc]

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

[cicero's_son]

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?

[Katya]

"neoconservative historian Ronald Radosh

Seriously, when did that transformation happen? Writing an excellent book exposing the communists for what they "really" were, is not synonymous with veering across the middle to the right. Unless of course the meaning of neo-con has radically altered.

[McGavin999]

BUMP to read tonight.

[McGavin999]

It leaves Christopher Hitchens in the vanguard of the new emerging group that could once again be call the "honorable opposition". The democrats faild to earn that title by years of drifting further and further away from courageous and reasoned differences.

We don't all have to be conservatives. This country functions best when we have two sides who honorably argue two different approaches to the same problem, but both with good intentions and with the best interests of the entire country at heart.

Lately, the left (democrats) have urged only the destruction of all this country stands for and pushes immorality and degradation as the norm.

[Atticus]

I don't know if Christopher Hitchens is a homosexual or not, and I don't really care. I do remember that when Hitchens was still a hard-core commie, Emmett Tyrell used to tauntingly refer to him as Christobel Hitchens in the American Spectator, for what its worth.

[Billthedrill]

I have just read a very illuminating little book regarding Christopher Hitchens, Trotskyites, and political epiphanies. It is Martin Amis's (ex-Trotskyite himself) Koba the Dread - Laughter and the 20 Million - its principal theme is Stalin's life, but its real thrust is how Amis's father Kingsley came to a similar conclusion in 1968 after the Czech suppression, following 12 years of thorough belief in communism.

In this is a letter from Amis to Hitchens. It is ten pages long. Here's a taste:

Comrade Hitchens! There is probably not that much in these pages that you don't already know. You already know, in that case, that Bolshevism presents a record of baseness and inanity that exhausts all dictionaries; indeed, heaven stops the nose at it. So it is still obscure to me why you wouldn't want to put more distance between yourself and these events than you do...

You must understand the process better than I do, because you have undergone it, or partly undergone it. Your restructuring remains incomplete. Why? An admiration for Lenin and Trotsky is meaningless without an admiration for terror. They would not want your admiration if it failed to incled an admiration for terror. Do you admire terror? I know you admire freedom.

The book is - quite literally - an attempt to lay certain ghosts to rest. I recommend it strongly.