Comments on Hitchens versus Nader

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Unsafe On Any Ballot
> By Christopher Hitchens

the multiple hypocrisies and evasions of Mr. Hitchens, who once called
himself a socialist but eagerly enlisted in the "clash of civilizations"
on the side of the neo-cons with the likes of Tom Friedman,  are by now
so twisted it's a fool's errand to attempt to untangle them, but two
threads dangle tantalizingly among the participles in his latest
denunciation of anyone to the left of himself as  -- too far right!

1. It's somehow sinful or sinister for Nader to speak to a salon of
GOPers run by Grover Norquist but Hitchens himself feels comfortable
enough in that company to call Norquist by his first name.

2. It was good and generous of Nader to agree with Hitchens except on
the issue of impeachment of Clinton.

What most has Hitchens's rhetorical panties in a bunch is his fear the
Democrats, with Nader sniping at them on the war, will abandon their
pledge of allegience to the Empire, leaving Hitchens naked and
snivelling as its last true champion from his redoubt at Vanity Fair.

Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.
Investigations
for Print, Film & Electronic Media
3140 W. 32nd Ave.
Denver CO 80211
303-455-9429

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