alexander cockburn bids adieu to christopher hitchens yesterday on counterpunch
and makes a point i had forgotten about, namely the way hitchens
treated edward said and gore vidal. those inexcusable actions
diminished the rapidly shrinking man as effectively as his inane support
for dick cheney's imperial excesses. hitchens the public intellectual
cartoon character was much like a somewhat obcure but well-respected
actor who, after a rise in his profile followed by a series of mediocre
performances in pointless films, is quite suddenly recognized as having
much less ability than previously believed. in his piece, cockburn also
makes another important point; hitchens stayed public during his cancer
treatment and did some nice work in that regard. at that point in his
life, the shameless public personality that was christopher hitchens
humanized a fearful struggle that most have no choice but to suffer in
relative silence and anonymity.
we have to re-elect obama exactly why? he's got some nasty friends and advisers;
this cockbag is only one in the crowd. summers, geithner, orzag, rahm, petraeus, panetta...
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