Killer Lies from Cheney's Harlot (DENNIS PERRIN)

Killer Lies from Cheney's Harlot

By DENNIS PERRIN

Some time ago, I ceased reading Christopher Hitchens's output, for the very simple reason that he's full of shit and in violent denial about it. The man has become so infantile and ridiculous that I saw no serious point in following anything else he says. Yes, some of my readers continually send me links or quotes from varied sources, asking what I think about Hitchens's latest outburst. And I reply that I think nothing about him -- that such a dynamic speaker, writer and thinker had devolved into a sputtering death-loving crank is certainly sad, especially for us who knew him back in the day, but following his toxic freak show made no sense anymore. All it did was either sicken or anger me. I've got enough to deal with as it is.

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Hitchens doesn't specify what "phony pacifist" he wishes to see strangled, but we do know that he hates pacifists and pacifism altogether ("an abdication" he once told me as he tore into a bratwurst), so perhaps he was pleased to see Tom Fox, the recently murdered Christian pacifist, meet his grisly (deserved?) fate. I wouldn't be surprised, but who really knows, or cares, for that matter. I do know that Hitchens's tough guy act is truly phony, so he might be engaged in some kind of projection.

The guy who arranges Hitchens's debates asked me if I would moderate a face off between Hitchens and Juan Cole. I said yes, assuming Hitchens would never agree to it, but now I've changed my mind. I'd sooner open for Professor Irwin Corey than share a stage with that wretched, lying asshole.

http://www.counterpunch.org/perrin03222006.html

"...a wretched, lying asshole." Lovely.