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#78150
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Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
I know people shouldn't speak ill of the dead but I found him to be a crashing bore who dominated conversation, usually surrounded by a handful of plain women who hung over bon mot (which were way too obvious).

OK I only met him briefly-twice-once at a diner and the other at a party. His so-called witticisms were laboured over and he gave the impression of someone who rehearsed them for days and hoped the subject would come up in conversation so he could deliver. It was typical of the Yanks to take to him as the epitome of a cultured Brit and he he sold out accordingly.

Fortunately I won't rot in Hell for this-he was an aethiest but his opinion pieces promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq really resonated in the USA and frightened liberals into silence.
He was possibly the Lord Haw Haw of Iraq.
 
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#78154
Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
Horrid man. His criticism of Mother Teresa as one prime example. I believe he stated of the 'Calcutta Ghoul' (his description of her)... 'Teresa enforced an embracement of poverty upon the Calcutta impoverished'... what utter bollocks!
 
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#78168
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
The Fat Controller wrote:
Horrid man. His criticism of Mother Teresa as one prime example. I believe he stated of the 'Calcutta Ghoul' (his description of her)... 'Teresa enforced an embracement of poverty upon the Calcutta impoverished'... what utter bollocks!

it was when he attacked Teresa that I went off him as it seemed very calculated with total disinterest in Teresa herself..she was a vehicle for him to gain attention.

His big beef about her was that she had accepted donations from some dodgy people..like Nicolae Ceaușescu. but that was a nonsense idea and she was an easy target.

Mother Teresa spent her entire life in the slums living on an old wooden bed. If she had spent the money on a French villa attacks upon her may be valid.

Similarly when Diana died....a complex person....he simply did the opposite to everyone else and attacked her comparing her to Teresa..but the 2 women couldn't have been more different.

In fact Hitchens was the epitome of what he accused others of..little substance and all style. His book God Is Not Great was a ripe-off as well..a re-hash of so many other people's ideas.

His wafflings on his own imminent death are typical..as though only he understands this great event about to happen to a great man. I was surprised he didn't turn up more in Pseuds Corner in Private Eye.

The Telegraph published a very good take on Hitchens :
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/cult...topher-Hitchens.html
far better than the white washed rubbish coming from people who should know better.

 
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#78171
Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
Indeed veritas. Do not care one jot about what he thought of world celebs.. (ie Mother Teresa/Diana) but his views that poverty were upheld by themselves...when the reality is that they are upheld by Goverments.
 
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
I just found it sad some papers described him as an atheist. That only makes sense if defined against a theist. Neither makes any sense. I don't get the boneheaded Dawkins' inspired smugness for one over the other. If you subscribe to either you're already in mad land. If you're truly rationalist you're beyond either category.
 
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#78254
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
more proof that even Hitchen's death has become one of JK's 'great stories" as his elevation to literary sainthood continues: A mediocre speech reported as brilliance :

www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/18/chr...dawkins-award-speech

Christopher Hitchens: one man's service in the war against delusion


I went to Hirchen's last talk at an Aethiest conference in Sydney.... I found him to be pontificating at his best..all presentation but light on actual facts (most of which have been written hundreds of times him before including those in his God Is Not Great book and repeated ad nauseum by Richard Dawkins)...and never engage a room full of athiests in discussion by announcing..as I did..you are a spiritualist..talk about fanatics.

I've got nothing against or for any religion...but man was doing horrible things to each other long before religion came along. And now they do it in all sorts of names..like 'freedom' and 'bringing democracy'.

Yet Hitchens supported one of the worst atrocities in recent times..the war on innocent Iraqis. And it must never be underestimated how important Hitchen's editorial support was.

I also went to Noam Chomsky's talk in Sydney about 6 weeks ago. Hitchens waged an unholy and dishonest war on Chomsky including twisting Chomsky's words to fit Hitchen's false claims about him. Every minute of a Chomsky speech is a 1000 times more illuminating.



Both Dawkins and Hitchens continually avoided one startling fact in their crusade against organised religion : even scientists have to admit that despite their theory that man rose via the ranks from some amoembo swimming in the sea...they still cannot pin point or explain the spark that created life.

They cannot explain it or re-produce it.
 
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#78262
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
....and watch how the media...very soon..begin to pick apart Hitchens when they recover from their bout of haligraphies ....they are so predictable as JK would know.

a matter of time before the bubble is burst.
 
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#78529
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
Hitchens did us the favor. You would think for a guy who was supposedly so bright he'd know that smoking and drinking was bad for his health. There was something deeply troubled with the man, that's for certain. He was a narcissistic, war-mongering propagandist. His fake brand of intellectualism appealed mostly to younger idiots.
 
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#78530
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
Can you believe Hitchens called Orwell his hero? That's such a laugh! Makes you wonder if the guy has ever read anything by Orwell or if he just said that because all the hip kids said they read him. If you want to know what Orwell would have thought of Hitchens, here it is:

The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. Sometimes it is a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is altering the conditions of war. Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

-George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
 
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#78542
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Re:Christopher Hitchens 12 Years, 10 Months ago  
I have been rather cruel about the late Chris Hitchens but I am sure he would have it no other way....as according to him he has now vanished into complete nothingness and no longer exists in any form whatsoever.....( a concept i find extremely difficult to imagine..like infinity) so I cannot really insult something that no longer exists. Can I?

or can you insult a memory ?..as that is all he is now

However his old friend Alexander Cockburn is far more scathing in his criticism..

www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/16/farewell-to-c-h/
 
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