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stpalm Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:06 PM
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Christopher Hitchens?
I thought he was a leftist, but I was reading the PNAC site (scary!) and saw some BS from him about Iraq.

Whats the deal?
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:08 PM
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1. Too much whiskey, IMHO.
He tries to be an iconoclast, but he doesn't pull it off very well.
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:09 PM
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2. He is a drunken right-winger.
Everytime he is on television, he has a glass of water as well as something a little stronger. He is a raging alcoholic with zero credibility.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:09 PM
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3. After 9-11 he had a nervous breakdown
Seriously, I don't know what happened but all of a sudden he turned hard right, denounced his ties to the left and resigned from The Nation.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:13 PM
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4. Left wing drunk who turned into a right wing drunk
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:16 PM
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5. Drunk ...is he still getting paid ?
I would be surprised
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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:18 PM
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6. This fairly short article
sort of explains what happened to him. He is not a right-winger but he is a lefty-gone-bad.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=hitchens
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:29 PM
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7. He's a drunk who's all over the map politically
He used to be right more often than wrong a couple of decades ago.

Alcohol's a mean drug.
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yankeedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:33 PM
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8. Has a fixation on Clinton's penis
Which caused him to make a right turn about 5 years ago.
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:40 PM
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9. He's a Zell Miller "liberal"
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 08:13 PM
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10. He is absolutely not a leftist! He rails against Dems, especially the
Clintons.
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theresistance Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 09:37 PM
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11. I think he's always been a reich wing person
After he wrote a book slamming Henry Kissinger and his crimes people started to laud him as an anti-war type. He was embarrassed and spent enormous energy dispelling that myth.

By the way, his book: http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/h-titles/hitchens_kissinger.shtml
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