"So he comes down squarely on the side of the mosque being built in one article, then describes objections to the man behind it in another. This isn't splitting the difference. This is nuance. Sane human beings are capable of ambivalence."
"To call him a right wing hack is comically clueless. Left wing hawks exist."
-Guest
Guest is pretty much the ideal to represent the good-hearted, soft-headed media consumer who will always fall for Hitchens's balderdash and, one assumes, will always be quite happy to do so.
Such is the way of the world. Your contradiction is my paradox, my nuance is your bullshit. Yet, at some point we get to take a look at the track record. Hitch says Bill Clinton was swinishly corporatist, but corporatism is an issue missing in action when Hitchens endorsed Bush.
When your Presidential Pick (2004) is and is from a party that is much more pro-capital punishment (and will have a DOJ pushing for more executions) yet you have been staunchly been anti-capital punishment, how do you resolve this problem? In Hitchens case, you simply stop writing and talking about capital punishment. Other important issues (the economy, the environment) on which common sense would have to dictate the superiority of the often hapless Dems? You just don't write about those issues. You do, however, fixate on petty non-scandels (Gary Condit) that might be used to weaken the left. Is a leftist "hawk" on the invasion of Iraq even a leftist at all? Some, like our Guest, seem to be stumbling, even all these years after the invasion, from the fairy dust that sprinkled in their eyes by Htichens and the Media.
It is that Media, as much or more than Clinton, that is truly corporatist, and that is how Hitchens and many others ended up very wealthy people. It's how the U.S. ended up in two absurdist quagmires. So let your triangulation be my complex take..... but your reflex denial only points harder at my truth: Christopher Hitchens is a right wing, Republican HACK.
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