Hitchens calls Lila Lipscomb "Nauseating"

[qanda]

This is from the Reliable Sources transcript, where they were 'objectively' discussing F-9/11. I'd say that if the standard for the Bush* administration was as high as it is for Michael Moore then there would have been no need for Moore to even make the movie.

PRESS: I don't think they were cheerleaders for war, but I do think, as I said earlier, they swallowed the administration's line and reprinted it without doing the homework that they should have done. But the related issue on this, I think one of the strengths of the movie is that Moore shows some video that I have never seen before. I think most Americans haven't. That seven minutes of President Bush sitting there while the teacher continues to read "My Pet Goat." I mean, did he want to -- what was he waiting for? Did he want to see how it ended?

I mean, America was under attack. And if I may just finish, quickly, that this footage of Lila Lipscomb, the woman who lost her son, which is certainly the most powerful part of the movie.

HITCHENS: Nauseating.


http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/04/rs.00.html

[AspenRose]

1. "Compassionate Conservatism" (tm) at work.

[kayell]

2. Nice, I bet he would get along great with the woman who harrassed Lila

in the park.

[htuttle]

3. Dear Christopher

You're probably nauseous because you're hungover again, ya drunken sod!

[cprise]

4. Nnnnnnnauseating...

Let them eat death!

[TrustingDog]

18. Bush: Let Them Eat Lead - Bring 'em on. n/t

[Dirty Hippie]

5. Bastard

Bet he never lost a child. I came close to losing mine. What an absolute shithead.

[General Discontent]

6. Why?

Did she make him spill his drink, or something?

DWolfman

[Justice]

7. Everytime They Bring Up Hitchens Review, Quote This Back At Them.

[AlCzervik]

8. Thats kind of like him calling someone a drunk.

He's an overly affected self promoting i'm smarter than everybody gas bag. I'm waiting for the day when he turns up dead because his liver has exploded.

[Ivan Zero]

9. Lipscomb isn't what's nauseating you, Hitch

It's all that bloody bile, literally and figuratively.

[Cat Atomic]

10. I don't care for Bill Press' suggestion that Moore is the left's Limbaugh.

Rush Limbaugh spreads right wing talking points and completely fabricated bullshit. Michael Moore uses *facts* to make an argument.

One is a respectable, if passionate, man with a point of view. The other is just another loudmouthed whore following orders from the RNC.

[msmcghee]

13. I always felt Press was a bit of a lightweight . .

. . especially after watching him on Crossfire. He'd occasionally score a point here and there, but almost any DU'er who spends 30 minutes or more a day here would be better informed.

[Zero Division]

11. Hitchens is primarily a contrarian, and he can't deal with being wrong

I don't doubt that Hitchens still believes in some basic Liberal principles, but he completely fell for the fairy tale of an easily-created liberal democracy in Iraq. He simply refuses to see why many of us thought it would be so incredibly difficult for a post-war Iraq to become a liberal democracy.

I think many Conservatives have and will admit this long before Hitchens ever does, if he ever will. I don't think it's in his contrarian nature.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

14. You hit the nail on the head!

He's a contrarian of immense magnitude.

[geek tragedy]

17. This is the man who would send Mother Theresa to Hell

so it's fair to say he's got a surly side.

Though, he did do a hate dance on St. Ronald of Reagan during his week of canonization, so I can appreciate that.

[Cha]

20. Or to see why it is ...

fucking Mass Murder to go in and Bomb the shyte outta Iraq based on Lies of the bushreich.

[qanda]

22. Why all of a sudden does his word hold so much weight?

And where are the people to refute what he has to say? Bill Press, God love him, but he was pitiful in trying to argue for the other side.

[Jim Warren]

25. Amen to that

For the life of I can't figure that shit out. Hitchens and other media "personalities" get run around the center media circus ring like they are fucking thoroughbred experts on something.

They are courtiers, as in fucking powdered wig tory courtier class assholes, adept and willing to play suck-toes with their courtier class higher ups. It is a false reality. Means shit.

[Sweetpea]

26. Have u noticed it is Hitchens word and very few high profile

Republicans?

[Zero Division]

28. Hitchens is the token "Liberal who disagrees with the other 'loony' libs"

He's trotted out so often for much the same reason that Zell Miller is (not that Zell is anything approaching Liberal, but he is used against Democrats in an anaolgous manner).

Ever see many Conservatives in the mainstream media who criticize the Iraq War (sure there may be a few paleocons like Buchanan, but do they appear with the frequency of their opposite?)? Perhaps I don't pay enough attention to the mainstream media anymore, but I don't see it.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

12. I loathe that man more and more each time he opens his mouth...

...or puts his fingers to the keyboard. It's actually been sad to watch his decline over the years. He's such a wanker.

[Flubadubya]

15. I actually saw that...

and my reaction to it was "Hitchens, disgusting!" What a miserable little wretch of a man he must be. I would hate to have to live in his skin.

[Cha]

16. Snitchens is ad Nauseum!

Isn't that like the charcoaled pot claiming the kettle is black?

[Logansquare]

19. Just curious, what clip did they show?

I wondered if Hitchens was actually responding to the "this is staged" woman. He's a shit, but not a stupid shit, so I'm surprised to read this in a transcript.

[DenverDem]

21. What's nauseating hitch is a gutful of cheap hooch.

Pompous, completely lacking integrity, waste of protoplasm.

[sleepyhead]

23. Sleepyhead calls Hitchens a drunken old fool.

I swear, he gets more pathetic by the day. Probably has no liver left and the toxins in his circulation are making hamburger out of his brain. I used to think he was just trying to be a bad boy for his own amusement, but now I'm sure he is curdling from the inside out.

[Swede]

24. I was trying to think of one word

For the combination of outrage,fear,loathing,and a sense of dread I felt while watching the movie. Maybe "Hitchens" might be that word.

[stavka]

27. If he only knew...Lila says.....

"We should support our president" and that she believes we are in "End Times"

per: The Michigan Daily, July 6/2004 edition (Ann Arbor)

War, and the power of editing, makes strange bedfellows

[the Kelly Gang]

29. poor Hitchens must be nauseated every morning...it's a hangover

[Hailtothechimp]

30. hitchens' the bitchens, aint he??

[ibegurpard]

31. Like Maureen Dowd but worse

the man has been rotted by cynicism. Any displays of emotion will always be treated as manipulative ploys. The only thing that would generate outrage in this sad, sad shell of a man would the re-enactment of Prohibition.

[Norquist Nemesis]

32. It IS nauseating!

The poor woman has to deal with what a parent should never have to...the death of a child. It's nauseating that Bush sent him over there based on lies. :mad:

[John_H]

33. I wonder if Hitchens' wingnut buddies know that he recently said

"Lenin was a great man," called himself a Trotskyite, and was sympathetic to Stalin. (read Martin Amis' Koba the Dread)

Of course, we all know hitchie's just a self promoting, authoritaraphiliac whore embarking on the obligatory middle aged english "intellectual's" going down the right-wing long slide.

But what would Scarlborogh fans say if the knew he was...pssst...a pinko!

[Imperialism Inc.]

34. Someone should remind Hitchens that Bush

tried to appoint his hated Kissinger to head the 9/11 commission! Maybe that would give him a clue.

[truthspeaker]

35. I dare Hitchens to say that to her face!

Lila Lipscomb sacrificed her son for our country. All Hitchens gave up was his integrity.

[oasis]

36. He would say it to her face. Hitch is even more obnoxious when he's drunk.

And that's 85 percent of the time.