OMG, Pot Calling out the Kettle on Steroids: Christopher Hitchens calls Gore Vidal a 'Crackpot'

:wtf:



from the Independent UK:



Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a 'crackpot'
Former protégé takes America's great man of letters to task for adopting 9/11 conspiracy theories

By Kate Youde


Sunday, 7 February 2010


As literary feuds go it has the all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America's great man of letters, Gore Vidal.

The latest salvo is in this month's Vanity Fair where, in an article headlined "Vidal Loco", Hitchens launches a stinging attack on Vidal, claiming that the events of 9/11 "accentuated a crackpot strain" in the author. He claims that Vidal's work after the terrorist attacks consists of "a small anthology of half-argued and half-written shock pieces (which) either insinuated or asserted that the administration had known in advance of the attacks."

"He openly says that the Bush administration was 'probably' in on the 9/11 attacks, a criminal complicity that would 'certainly fit them to a T'; that Timothy McVeigh was 'a noble boy', no more murderous than generals Patton and Eisenhower; and that 'Roosevelt saw to it that we got that war' by inciting the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor," Hitchens writes.

Vidal's reaction to the Vanity Fair article is not yet known. But yesterday, a British academic, who was also criticised by Hitchens, leapt to the author's defence. Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, of Sussex University, described Hitchens' attack as "extraordinarily vitriolic". He claimed there was a "sense of jealousy he never did quite get to Gore's level of literary flair and his almost iconic status. It does seem like a kind of bizarre personal vendetta being carried out on the pages of Vanity Fair, replete with factual inaccuracies and not very much substance." ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hitchens-attacks-gore-vidal-for-being-a-crackpot-1891753.html

How are you, Mr. Hitchens? What can I get you?

... in any sane world no one would publish the moron.

Excessive clauses and pretentious use of the semicolon at ten paces. :eyes:

Looney Zell Miller challenges Chris Matthews to a duel -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBnlNjZq24