Thursday, January 06, 2005
Hitchens highlights
INDC Journal points us toward this highlights reel of Hitchens hammerings: the best floggings from Christopher Hitchens, America's best polemicist, written and oral. Of the ten nominated quotations, here are my two favorite:
I saw Hitchens lay this on Tim Russert back in September, laughed out loud, hit reverse on the TiVo remote, and summoned my wife. "Somehow horribly true"? Ha!
Then there is this:
Read the whole thing.
On John Kerry:
"I heard that people were sending the checks to the $10,000-a-plate dinner, or whatever it was--they were sending the check, they wouldn't come to the dinner. That's too much. 'I'll pay you not to have me to dinner with the nominee.' That may be a rumor, but it did appear in the NY Times fairly authoritatively, and it seems somehow horribly true. Also it seems to me astonishing that the test of a Democratic liberal now is to be gung ho, or have been gung ho, about Vietnam. Of all wars. And then, did he think Mr. John O'Neil had died? Did he sort of check? Because the last time he tried this, it's agreed by all that John O'Neil gave him a pretty good run for his money back in the seventies. Whatever you think about the merits of the case."
I saw Hitchens lay this on Tim Russert back in September, laughed out loud, hit reverse on the TiVo remote, and summoned my wife. "Somehow horribly true"? Ha!
Then there is this:
On Democrats trafficking in the rumor that the White House had Osama bin Laden stashed away for an "October Surprise":
"What will it take to convince these people that this is not a year, or a time, to be dicking around? Americans are patrolling a front line in Afghanistan, where it would be impossible with 10 times the troop strength to protect all potential voters on Oct. 9 from Taliban/al-Qaida murder and sabotage. We are invited to believe that these hard-pressed soldiers of ours take time off to keep Osama Bin Laden in a secret cave, ready to uncork him when they get a call from Karl Rove? For shame."
Read the whole thing.
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