>
>Personal hatred is very unappealing to me, and is not likely
>to sway my view on a political figure. Hitchens HATED Clinton,
>pure hatred. NOT Clinton's policies, but CLINTON.
>
>In my view, Clinton was far to the right of my political
>views, but the "scandals" and impeachment were a HUGE waste of
>time for this country.
>
>Then Bush comes in, has a huge failure of policy (9/11) and
>Hitchens jumps on the bandwagon.
>
>Hitchens philosophies at this point are wrong (in my opinion)
>and seeing him on tv , very possibly drunk, telling lies about
>9/11 and Iraqis too much for me. The last time he was on Real
>Time I think he was worse than any right-wing pundit that had
>ever been on that show.
>
>His argument that Sadaam (and Talibanism) are "evil, bad
>things" I can agree with, but his support for insane, and
>mismanaged, war is just plain silly.
>
>He's thrown his support in with incompetent and stupid
>(intelligent , yes, but stupid too) people that plan consits
>entirely of "a. Show them force and they will submit to our
>will. b. When they don't then repeat steps a."
>
>Hitchen's brain is a the same loop as Bush or Cheney's at this
>point. And the circular policies they support are not good for
>our country. And that's why I think he's a tool.
>
>Three people died on 9/11 that are still walking around:
>Christopher Hitchens, Dennis Miller , and Phil Hendrie.
>
>

Thats ust a shot in the dark there...just a guess, just a stab at something...not sure, not 100% sure yet.

I love the guy, what can I say? Actually, that is inaccurate...I loveD the guy. I am ready to admit that I printed out his 10 most recent articles from SLATE, read them, and I am finding myself vehemently disagreeing with a whole lot of what he says.

But dammit I love the way he says it.

He's not the Hitchens I followed as recently as 5 years ago, and DEFINITELY not the same man I followed 10 years ago. You are right, he's fucked with his opinions on very critical aspects of this war and specific Bush policy. I don't enjoy the content like I once did but I still like his style. Guess he's built up enough credit with me that although I'm not going to be riding for him any time soon, I'll always have an affinity for the man.

Personal hatred and vitriolic attacks don't bother me. I loved that he went after Clinton like he did. I don't know what you thought of it back then, but people seem to be reflecting on that period of time and are now content to deem his Clinton bashing as some sort of a deranged obsession. How much of that is revisionist? How many of those folks were saying that at the time? I'd be interested in knowing if the people casting that light on that era are doing so because they are looking back with their current opinions Hitch.