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  • Ilk or Actuality?

    I have to question the premise of Hitchens' argument. It seems he prefers to remain among those who feel they haven't heard enough renunciation and distancing in Obama's ''handling'' of his ''pastor situation.'' The senator actually demonstrated integrity treating the Rev. Wright and his comments with more seriousness than a mere political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on April 7, 2008

  • Hitchens the Bertie Wooster of politics

    Hitchens responds to Pastor Wright's Afro-centric rants with his Anglo-centric rants. If Wright is a Black nationalist then Hitchens is an Anglo-Protestant nationalist. We may excuse Wright to some extent, as Obama suggests, because his words stem from the anger and frustration of being born black in the days of segregation. One wonders what ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by smite on March 31, 2008

  • Hitchens' take on religion intellectually lazy

    While I agree with much of what Hitchens says in his analysis of the Wright/Obama matter, to toss off a statement like ''How true it is that religion poisons everything'' just bespeaks intellectual laziness. I realize that this slogan has been part of Hitchens' boilerplate for years, but it bears pointing out that cherry-picking the most ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Avrel Seale on March 26, 2008

  • Hitchens has a point, but still doesn't get it.

    Hitchens goal, as it is with every other media sound byte master, is to focus on one aspect of a story, and exploit it's negativity for all it's worth. What he fails to understand is what all of us, the populace at large, truly understands. That no one, not Wright or any of Wright's parishioners, are the sum of our worst insticts, or are worst ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by selainet on March 25, 2008

  • Hitchen's failure to understand Comparisons

    When anyone asks you to compare two things A and B, they're always asking you to compare them relative to some criteria X. A comparison allows us to understand some quality of A by likening it to some quality in B. And so we need to be very careful in understanding comparisons to understand what that quality that is being highlighted is. In the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by meses on March 25, 2008