Oh God Hitchens is destroying Falwell on

[malaise]

Anderson Cooper. This is priceless. How dare he this little charlatan - pickpockets, who prey on people. A complete fraud. Thanks Hitchens.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I get the feeling...

That The Ambulatory Scotch Filter decided it was time to play left for a while.

[malaise]

4. Hitchens is an avowed atheist

He is useful these days scotch and all.

[DKRC]

5. Hey! you say Ambulatory Scotch Filter like it's a bad thing!

:beer: O well, there wasn't a Famous Grouse smiley.:evilgrin:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. What the hell...

Is going on with everyone drinking The Chicken these days? Has there been a subterranean cult formed around reading W.E.B Griffith or something? Back in my drinking days, when I felt some scotch coming on, and I went into a bar, asked for some Chicken or some Pinch, bartenders would look at me like I was speaking martian.

[DKRC]

9. Yes & I'm it's leader

Umm, never read WEBG & don't drink my scotch in bars ... btw, where the hell have you been? You were supposed to bring the cigars... O never mind.

:evilgrin:

[WildEyedLiberal]

2. Can't say I like Hitchens but kudos to him for not deifying Falwell

[muntrv]

"....his shows are a danger to democracy." NICE!!

[physioex]

3. Yea...It is nothing more than slick marketing.

I was watching 700 club before I heard the Falwell news, and it was
real slick how Gordon put it that if you send us money then god will
reward you with more.

[PsN2Wind]

6. Ever wonder why it is

That God has to send these televangelists money through a third person rather than direct?

[physioex]

8. I am reminded of the movie "Oh God"....

When he says to the the televangelist, "He wants you to stop using his name to make money". That was an awesome movie.....

[AtomicKitten]

10. Hitchens made short work of Mother Teresa

in a Vanity fair article which was the first thing I ever read by him. He has a way of slicing and dicing that I'm afraid the recently departed Mr. Falwell has coming in a karmic sort of way.

[papau]

13. Falwell obviously was a conservative and fair game for Hitchens -but Mother Teresa was a nun-not a

social worker - and the priorities are different - something Hitchens does not understand. The most basic concept of an oath of obedience, and that you follow instruction, happily and without question, dedicated to your religion, not out to solve poverty, but to council and comfort the poor, is foolishly turned by Hitchens into the observation that sisters are "sheep" who "blindly follow" their leader. Basically Hitchens writes crap and expects others to see it as wisdom.

In all his articles and books "debunking" Mother Teresa he makes two points - and only two points that are justified valid criticism and both are really just point of view. Mother Teresa did not have great accounting and no accounting controls and reports for her "Missionaries of Charity" and the 4,000 nuns and 40,000 lay workers involved - but then the religious judge the stewardship of their contributions by the results obtained - and not by debits and credits in a balance sheet of assets and liabilities. Also, like Jesus, Mother Teresa did not avoid crooks and thieves - and accepted donations from those folk. Hitchens relates over and over her being socially with the wife of Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier, with corrupt US businessmen like Charles Keating, and with Nancy Reagan - a big deal this is not.

Indeed most of Hitchens screed is against doing religious things - indeed conservative religious things that are dogma in the Roman Church - but are just misguided at best and corruption at worst to Hitchens. As usual with Hitchens he throws out labels and asserts their validity rather than giving facts - saying she is a religious fundamentalist (and it is true she follows the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church), a political operative, a primitive sermonizer with questionable motives who's into a cult of death, suffering, and subjugation - WOW - I don't see Hitchens living with the poor and trying to help them - perhaps this is just guilt?

Indeed in a the huge organization that is Missionaries of Charity, Hitchens saw in some shelters some nuns with lousy medical skills - concluding that Mother Teresa cares more about baptizing the dying more then saving them, about saving souls more then mending bodies - can we say a bit of a leap by Hitchens with little logic?

I suspect it is the uncritical worship of Mother Teresa that hurts Hitchens' ego the most, worship being something Hitchens lost in Liberal circles as to himself as he became a drunk that would hurt liberal progressive causes out of distaste for the personalities of the leader of the day for those causes.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. wow....talk about polishing a turd!

care to do some PR work for the Gonzo or Wolfowitz?

that defense of the sainted mother was satire, yes?

brilliant!

[LTR]

11. He hates everyone

I recall he bashed Gerald Ford when he died.

[Esra Star]

12. Hitch will just use it to flog his book. nt

[Neshanic]

14. Poor Anderson is having the vapors. Hitchens is going to town, I love it.

[Arugula Latte]

16. I like the atheist Hitchens, but not the Bush ass-smooching Hitchens. nt

[malaise]

17. Agree 100%

Transcript here
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/15/acd.01.html