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Thinking Like an Apparatchik
Atlantic Monthly ^
| July, 2003
| Christopher Hitchens
Posted on 06/02/2003 11:55:49 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Brilliant!
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:06:39 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
To: Howlin
You have to duck and weave sometimes through Hitch's politics in his writings but he's the best writer today in America.
Thanks for the ping, Howlin.
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:08:54 PM PDT
by
WaterDragon
(America the beautiful, I love this nation of immigrants.)
To: Howlin
That first quote was Hitchens being sarcastic. The second was really the words of Blumenthal.
It's really hard to out-sycophant Sidney, even as a joke.
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:09:55 PM PDT
by
dead
To: Howlin
Ooops! I should have read more carefully. Both of those were Blumethal!
Hitchens was sarcastic in the paragraph following your first selection.
I guess I sort of reinforced my point about Sydney being parody-proof!
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:11:49 PM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
I haven't seen anything that good on FR in years, even Sam Smith in his good years didn't trash the Bent One as well as that, English Education?
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:21:01 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(No Rats, A.N.S.W.E.R (WWP) is a commie front!!!!,)
To: Howlin
At six feet, two inches, with a jutting jaw, gray-green eyes, a ruddy complexion, and loose long limbs, Clinton was the most physically imposing person in the room, as he almost always was. Sounds like L-O-V-E to me. Oh geez, how pathetic. Only someone in love could describe Clinton's blotchy, puffy red face that screams "I am a heart attack waiting to happen" as "ruddy".
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:32:45 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: dubyaismypresident; Howlin
Something tells me Sid typed out his manuscript one-handed...which is why it took so long for the book to come out...I mean, be released...I mean, hit the shelves.
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:41:48 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: Howlin
Howlin, you KNOW I don't speak his name. I think of 1992-2000 akin to Pam coming out of the shower after a year & it was all Bobby's dream.
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:47:46 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: Howlin
Clinton brought in with him a stream of cool, brisk air from outside. At six feet, two inches, with a jutting jaw, gray-green eyes, a ruddy complexion, and loose long limbs, Clinton was the most physically imposing person in the room, as he almost always was. Uh-huh. Really an attractive figure, who could resist?
To: cyncooper
I really hope you disinfected your hands after typing that.
Now I need to go rinse out my blue, no wait, they're gray-green, no wait, they're blue, eyes.
To: Howlin
More legacy rewrite which says: see what you missed out on by not letting x42 have another term - we were just getting started.
Excuse me ... Bush accomplished more in his first SIX MONTHS than x42 accomplished in all of his 8 years.
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posted on
06/02/2003 1:58:05 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
To: Howlin
Sidney Blumenthal needs help.
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:08:04 PM PDT
by
hchutch
(America came, America saw, America liberated; as for those who hate us, Oderint dum Metuant)
To: Catspaw
That works for me!
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:12:18 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Thanks for the ping
34
posted on
06/02/2003 2:14:34 PM PDT
by
firewalk
To: BeforeISleep
I hated to make you read this crap.........LOL.....but you gotta!
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:16:03 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
You plan these things, I just know it! (-:
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:18:51 PM PDT
by
firewalk
To: WaterDragon
I thought you would be on this article commenting. Man o man, Blumenthal is something else. Evidence, really, that one can possess too much je ne sais quoi.
Do you suppose this was a counter for the Dereliction Of Duty book?
Let's just see which sells.
To: redlipstick
Use bleach, especially after viewing the alleged "loose long limbs" featured in post #29. (Well, love IS blind!)
Sidney has a schoolgirl crush on The Thing, just like Tina.
ICK
To: wimpycat
Sid typed out this book with Hillary on the other end of the phone making suggestions! This comming out just ahead of her book is more than suspect and certainly makes Sid appear even more rediculous than before he decided to pimp for Hillary "One more time".
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:26:25 PM PDT
by
wingnuts'nbolts
(I see the world and my surroundings in a new light and I still hate all things Clinton)
To: wimpycat
Sid typed out this book with Hillary on the other end of the phone making suggestions! This comming out just ahead of her book is more than suspect and certainly makes Sid appear even more rediculous than before he decided to pimp for Hillary "One more time".
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posted on
06/02/2003 2:26:27 PM PDT
by
wingnuts'nbolts
(I see the world and my surroundings in a new light and I still hate all things Clinton)
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