freecounterpoint: Hitchens' Meds Run Out. Call Pepe!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Hitchens' Meds Run Out. Call Pepe!

8 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Oh, boy. And to think both AA and I have been defending the Hitch from JJ's periodic slings and arrows, only to have this double-cross, straight out of Pepean pseudo-logos. Et tu, Brute?; 9/20/2006 1:51 AM
Mr roT said...: And then Destiny chooses the side of JJ. Get used to it and send the VCP via FedEx.; 9/20/2006 9:11 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Hitchens position stems more from some personal (or professional) vendetta against Ratzinger. That's why in any article Hitchens writes about the Pope, he'll invariably say, "I'll always know him as Joseph Ratzinger."; 9/20/2006 9:31 AM
Mr roT said...: I think it's more a personal antipathy to all religion. I have one of those too but I will never say they are all the same.; 9/20/2006 10:07 AM
Tecumseh said...: Ah, JJ -- but you don't swill whisky like Hitch does. Maybe there was some funny stuff in his drink? Be prepared to turn the other cheek!; 9/20/2006 11:00 AM
Mr roT said...: You're right. I don't turn down Sacramental whiskey.; 9/20/2006 12:12 PM
The Darkroom said...: on the apology; 9/20/2006 1:41 PM
Tecumseh said...: I guess one should not try to correct the Onion, but let me give it a try, anyhow. I know, I know, the jeering crowd will say, hey, can't you tell it's a joke (like that bit about placing Jesus in 1000BC)? But my suspicion is that these sneering pinko-lefties, who feel oh-so-superior to the simpleton conservatives, are, in fact, dumb as a doorknob, more often than knot -- certainly in this case.

"Am I the only one who's surprised the Pope had to go back seven whole centuries to find a Catholic anti-Muslim quote?"

Manuel Paleologos (whose first name the Beeb could not even spell right!) was Greek Orthodox -- that's not the same as Catholic. But of course, to an atheist, all Christians look the same.

"The sad part is his apology came verbatim from the medieval text, 'How To Pacify The Savage Arab."

Manuel was talking to a Persian -- those guys are not Arabs. And Constantinople was besieged by the Turks at the time -- those guys are not Arabs, either.

Oh well, to an oh-so-superior pinko-Lefty, anyone who looks different from a Berkeley/Cambridge/Rive Gauche central casting flaming Liberal looks the same, I guess. And their crass ignorance gets masked behind the rictus of strained (and facile) satire.

The dogs bark, the caravan keeps on truckin'; 9/20/2006 6:46 PM

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