Extra: Writer reflect on Hitchens

Writer Christopher Buckley talks about a recent visit with friend and colleague Christopher Hitchens.

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[sageSPH]

I really hate how overrated Mozart is. I haven't read enough of HItchens' work to really judge, but if he wrote on the same level that Mozart composed...Well, then I guess he wasn't all that great.

[DrCruel]

@janjanjan0 I don't think Buckley had much respect for either man. Or so my reading of the National Review would lead me to believe.

Don't be shy. There are at least as many Left-wing nitwits in Europe as there are in the US. Just go to any coffeehouse in Athens. We seem to be better at avoiding riots in our streets these days too.

[janjanjan0]

@DrCruel Bullshit. Buckley was making a joke - a reference to the fact that he once said to gore vidal "now listen you queer, stopp calling me a crypto nazi or i punch you in your goddamn face!"chomsky didn't make a fool of himself at all,but while reading all this comments (from left and right)i don't get the feeling that anyone wants sirious discussion.maybe its part of the USA that black and white thinking is much more present than in europe. Fuck Hitchens/Fuck CHomsky is all thats being said

[DrCruel]

Teabagging? Anal buggery? Cocksucker? As a matter of insult? And you claim not to be homophobic because "some of your best friends are gay"?

What's wrong with you? Are you mentally ill?

[MetrazolElectricity]

@DrCruel Oh yeah? Just quote me, you right-wing cocksucker ... haha You're just prattle, no evidence no proof... that's why you're a religious nutjob. You don't value evidence at all. You're a complete republiklan village idiot. And me like Gore and Prof. Chomsky? Wow, You flatter me,my right-wing simpleton.

[DrCruel]

@MetrazolElectricity That's your best? Deny everything, then change the subject? Throw out a few insulting non-sequiturs as a smoke screen?

No wonder you like Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal so much. You're just like them.

[MetrazolElectricity]

@DrCruel Just show me what act you've caught me in, David Duke? haha Like your master Glenn Beck, you're just words, my little right-wing imp. You haven't been thinking straight recently have you? Too much moonshine at the last Cross-burning, klanboy? Teabaggers, like you, love to cry foul about leftists. I've see a thousand guys, talk just like you, act just like you, man. You're an intellectual lightweight anti-university, anti-science, anti-global warming, anti-evolution, jesus-freak bigot.

[DrCruel]

@MetrazolElectricity Add to characteristics of leftists the tendency to bald-faced lies and denials, even when caught in the act.

At least you've been careful to keep out homophobic references this time around, sticking to scatalogical insults. I suppose that's an improvement. Maybe I've had a positive impact on you.

[MetrazolElectricity]

@DrCruel haha Where's the racism, klanboy? Homophobic posting. I've got friends who are gay. Heck, isn't your side that believes in the Leviticus Bible bullshit and wants to strip gay people of their rights? lol, and you spoke of hypocrisy. Fucking right-wing illiterate tool of the sewers.

[DrCruel]

@MetrazolElectricity Again, in the face of so-called "boredom" you have an odd reaction. It seems more like the truth that you've been chastened for championing Left wing fascists as your heroes, and have become very ill-tempered because of it.

Scratch a Leftist, and the hatred and racism will come flowing out of the wound. Your last homophobic posting is a perfect case in point.