— by Stabler, who offers some ruminations on Hitch's recent appearance on the O'Reilly Factor.
Look, if Hitchens wants to politely grovel at Fox News's feet it's alright as far as it goes. Where else can Our Boy's ever so humble argument against torture be played under clips from the season premiere of "24?" Also, while Hitchens now calls American invasion tactics "sadism", we should not forget that at the time he was an emphatic state propagandist, arguing the war was being waged with new standards in decency and humanity.
Yet we must ask "What the hell ever happened to The Noble Sir Christopher Hitchens, chivalrous protector of the Chaste Lady Monica, and defender against all ruffians of the Virtuous Dame Paula of The House Of Jones?" Now our lion hearted Knight takes his sword to the microphones of sleabo T.V. personalities, even ones who have had to pay whopping penalties to make their sexual harassment problems go away. Unlike the Lewinsky matter, the young woman O'Reilly asked to Lufta his falafel apparently did not initiate the exchange.
Hitchens has argued, dubiously, that journalists are not to be held to the same standards as politicos because they have no power over anyone. It's not easy to see how Hitchens could rap that shaky proposition around this contradiction; but I guess consistency is overrated.
Or maybe, just maybe, the set of standards Htichens still brings to the Clintons, while mercenary, are themselves debased, debauched, pious and hypocritical to a hopeless degree.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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