Re: Hitchens comes clean

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

omigod, he temporarily sobered up!

(His columns in the NATION became much fuzzier in his prose and logic
-- booze-influenced? -- after he turned Sidney Blumenthal into the
House of Representatives investigating committee.)

On 9/27/06, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This difference [over Iraq] among others led me to separate myself from The
> Nation, where neither my prose nor my socializing were as stellar as
> [David] Corn recalls. Incidentally, I begin to tire of this sickly idea
> that I used to be a great guy until I became fed up with excuses for
> dictators and psychopathic murderers (let alone for mediocre CIA
> fantasists). Alexander Cockburn is surely nearer the mark when he says that
> I was a complete shit and traitor all along.
>
> full: http://www.slate.com/id/2150433/
>
> --
>
> www.marxmail.org


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Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.