Comments on: Hitchens, reconsidered

By: Guy Forgt

Guy Forgt — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:35:44 +0000

Don’t you mean “methode champenoise” socialists?

By: cartesian

cartesian — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:26:56 +0000

“Hitchens”. Heh, indeed. Now good day to you, and God Bless America.

By: GeoX

GeoX — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:50:19 +0000

Céline was a complex guy and not actually a Nazi, nor even much of a sympathizer. Believe me, they would have executed him if he had been (look at Robert Brasillach). Obviously, those pamphlets he wrote were pretty inexcusable, but he had his good qualities, and he implicitly, at least, admitted that he’d done things he shouldn’t have. I think the fact that his years of internment almost certainly substantially shortened his life is punishment enough, if punishment was necessary.

Uh…what was I saying? Right: no fair lumping Céline in with a hack like Hitchens.

By: Dr.BDH

Dr.BDH — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:23:01 +0000

Mr. Hitchens is in need of more waterboarding, to clear his brain of the Republican prions that are eating his higher mental processes.

By: FearItself

FearItself — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:59:02 +0000

I dunno. It’s possible that Hitchens is decrying the Clinton’s public lamentations about the poor not because he finds the poor distasteful, but because he finds the Clintons’ repeated bemoaning of their plight to be motivated by politics, rather than by a genuine concern for the poor.

If that’s what he’s saying, I’m not sure he’s right–but then, I’m not sure he’s wrong, either.

By: TigerHawk

TigerHawk — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:47:39 +0000

So nice to hear from The Editors after all this time!

By: coozledad

coozledad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:05:18 +0000

Mrs. Tilton, you are likely right. It’s been awhile since I’ve read anything by him: His book on Orwell was the last thing I got through. I suppose the problem I had with it was less with the writing than its self-eulogizing, self referential voice, preparing us for Hitchens’ bold leap onto the world historical stage, where he would subsequently deploy his Orwellian sagacity to rip country pop acts.
Even the writers of his generation that I agree with politically seem to have a peculiar irksome quality. Maybe I’m just bored with them.

By: The Editors

The Editors — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:23:45 +0000

I thought the bourgeoisie were supposed to have jobs. Lingering around open-bar AEI functions is not gainful employment.

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:20:36 +0000

It needs be extra sharp for a bourgeoisie parasite as dense as Hitchens.

No Doc, extra dull. Too sharp and you might spare him the pain and suffering of repeated attempts.

By: Notorious P.A.T.

Notorious P.A.T. — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:12:27 +0000

“Every four years, we suddenly discover that the only people worth noticing or mentioning in the United States are those who are ill, or unemployed, or uninsured, or underpaid, or homeless, or some combination of the above. ”

Since that group probably only numbers, what, 3% of the American population at most, there’s no point at all in giving them so much mention.