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July 21, 2005
WB: Getting Hitched
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Poor Switchens.
He manages to even screw up book reviews anymore.
Posted by: Anonymous | Jul 21 2005 16:42 utc | 1
i beg to differ w/ you regarding the vanity fair article, it was too little too late. no mention that ohio was the state that tipped the election to bush. didn’t even mention that there was no recount. ohio law sipulates you can cherry pick precincts to count 3%. if they pass the mustard, no hand recount .no mention the vote machine worker who entered under the pretext of helping answer some questions who proceeded to dismantle a machine and ‘reprogram it’ of the recount , offering to post results on the wall before the recount. there is alot that wasn’t covered. i was dissapointed at the time vanity fair chose hitchens to cover this story instead of someone w/ a pasion for the issue and waited till february instead a couple months earlier . anyway, i think he’s a dick.
Posted by: annie | Jul 21 2005 17:11 utc | 2
Dunno if you saw this from Mon, but here it is. And there’s more about me & Hitch here.
Love the site. Read it daily.
Posted by: Dennis Perrin | Jul 21 2005 17:15 utc | 3
Sorry, Billmon, I can’t read your blog any longer. My neocon friends say that Hitch is much smarter than you are, and so would wipe the floor with you in a debate. Since they’re right about everything, they must be right about you and Hitch as well. Maybe you should just stop writing the blog at all, huh? Maybe just post stuff from Horowitz et al. instead? Think about it.
Posted by: Thom | Jul 21 2005 18:01 utc | 4
Terrific post. Great writing in general on your blog.
I love how Hitchens demands to “debate” people he disagrees with, like the public schoolboy he will forever be.
I wrote something here about another recent Slate column in which he endorses torture. This surprised me at the time.
Cheers,
Steven Poole
Posted by: Steven Poole | Jul 21 2005 21:29 utc | 5
Hey Dennis, any regrets over your support for Bush’s “war on terror”? I remember reading some of your posts on LBO when you were pretty gung-ho about the whole adventure. I just love the brilliant foreign policy strategy you came up with at the time (in your own words):
“I eventually came out in favor of the U.S. hitting those who backed the 9/11 attacks, if only to scatter them and knock them off balance.”
Mission accomplished! They have scattered all the way to the London Underground.
Posted by: kakumeika | Jul 22 2005 1:52 utc | 6