Slate article on Cindy

[mzteris]

It's just awful. I'm in shock. I thought Slate was liberal.


What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants
Now imagine if she gets it.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Friday, Aug. 19, 2005, at 1:44 PM PT

http://slate.msn.com/id/2124788/fr/rss/

[DURHAM D]

1. Why anyone (including Vanity Fair) pays Chris Hitchens

to write anything is beyond me. First - he may be smart but he is always drunk. Second - when he writes he gets so involved in trying to be clever that you can not discern his meaning. I think the editors just pass his shit on with a shrug.

[Ron Green]

2. This boozy fop loses credibility immediately, when he refers,

with a straight face, to Bush's bullshit adventure as "a real war."

[uppityperson]

3. He writes this kind of stuff regularily

Slate presents many sides of the spectrum.

[patrice]

4. Hitchens is a sell-out elitist. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Christopher Hitchens Is A Former Leftist Who Turned...

IMO, Christopher Hitchens is a former leftist who has turned into a toady for the Gee Dubya Bush administration. Like many former marxists, he retains an especially intense hatred for non-marxist progressives like the Clintons.

[Bumblebee]

6. Hitchens is a reactionary nut these days

and if people threaten to stop reading Slate, they may be let go... just like The Nation and Vanity Fair (I believe) did.

[drummo]

7. Slate maybe liberal

but Christopher Hitchens is a pro-war asshole.
Otherwise he is a leftist.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

9. "Otherwise he is a leftist"?

No.

No "leftist" would side with the Bush administration over Cindy Sheehan. In fact, no rational human being would.

[anitar1]

8. No one pays any attention to this old drunk.

He is hateful and spews ugliness. People in his business laugh about him.