tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137745797004379701.post6997222619099420616..comments2024-01-09T21:58:47.422-06:00Comments on Protest and Hyperbole: HitchSassmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360141438357032519noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137745797004379701.post-89499576033420259932008-04-01T11:02:00.000-06:002008-04-01T11:02:00.000-06:00"You love it, you suck on it". I would use that l..."You love it, you suck on it". I would use that line if I was getting dissed by someone, but probably only after the consumption of cocktails. If you put the ranting in a context where you really dislike someone and want to chew his/her ass off, then this is good. As it is, it is just plain scary.<BR/><BR/>ErinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137745797004379701.post-76286544351451179492008-04-01T10:15:00.000-06:002008-04-01T10:15:00.000-06:00HS, you should check out the New Yorker profile. I...HS, you should check out the New Yorker profile. It's online. It's from 2006 and I haven't finished it yet, but I think it's attempting to explain some of this stuff. And yeah, what is UP with Rather? Can no one but Walter Cronkite maintain their dignity into their dotage? Dang.<BR/><BR/>NE, you're right, he does have some good lines. I saw him on a panel with some religious folk talking about his most recent book -- an pro-atheist screed. He's often very intelligent, but he uses his words like fists.Sassmasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15360141438357032519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137745797004379701.post-65992707770070008632008-04-01T09:34:00.000-06:002008-04-01T09:34:00.000-06:00Christopher Hitchens has become a very odd charact...Christopher Hitchens has become a very odd character of late. For years, he was a slightly toxic but usually reliable columnist for The Nation. He split with them not long after the invasion of Iraq, which he supported but The Nation (of course) despised. Since then, there's been this long descent into lunacy that I've found mildly fascinating. In the past, he seemed to take great pains to look meticulous. Now he usually looks puffy and disheveled. I sense that there may have been some demons that had been circling him for years have finally taken over.<BR/><BR/>This seems to happen with political and/or political media personalities every now and again, and I'm usually intrigued by what might have happened to them. Dan Rather is another case in point - I've always wondered what broke him into becoming such a worthless toady after so many years as a relatively thoughtful and reasonable journalist. Ditto for Mike Hatch, who seemed to run his last gubernatorial campaign with a midlife fatalism where he had a profound sense that most everything on which he had based his public life was utterly meaningless.<BR/><BR/>May they all serve as profound examples of what not to become...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137745797004379701.post-57871666451669282882008-04-01T08:00:00.000-06:002008-04-01T08:00:00.000-06:00Except, now I'm completely compelled to use Hitche...Except, now I'm completely compelled to use Hitchens's phrase sometime . . . anytime: "A raving, sinister, demagogic nut bag." Even if I could just get in a "raving nut bag" I think I'd be satisified.Night Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07412726710452065861noreply@blogger.com