Tag: ‘christopher hitchens’ · TangleBones

They owe us an apology

Among others, these people need to apol­o­gize for being so spec­tac­u­larly wrong about the war in Iraq:

• Bob Arnot
• Fred Barnes
• Jeff Birnbaum
• David Carr
• Joie Chen
• Alan Colmes
• Ceci Connolly
• Lou Dobbs
• Bob Edwards
• Howard Fineman
• Fred Francis
• Christo­pher Hitchens
• Brit Hume
• Gwen Ifill
• Morton Kondracke
• Charles Krauthammer
• Bill O’Reilly
• Chris Matthews
• Dick Morris
• William Raspberry
• William Safire
• Joe Scarborough
• Tony Snow
• Cal Thomas
• Judy Woodruff
• Edi­tors of Newsweek
• Edi­tors of the LA Times

Some of them are prob­a­bly happy to admit that they were wrong. Others…

Well, let’s just say that accord­ing to experts, tor­ture is use­less for infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing, but works like a charm for forced con­fes­sions. So let’s cross-​reference this list with the one of people on record sup­port­ing tor­ture and see if we can’t give them what they want. O’Reilly? You’re up first.

Why? How about get­ting this story com­pletely back­wards. If Saddam was really making up all that stuff about WMDs, then why did the pres­i­dent say that he had evi­dence? Why did he kick out the weapons inspec­tors? Why did he send Colin Powell to the U.N.? And if it was all made up, what was Powell talk­ing about?

You, sir, are despi­ca­ble. I hon­estly have no idea how you sleep at night.

I hate to keep harping on this Danish cartoon thing

…but Christo­pher Hitchens¹, in an arti­cle about the ongo­ing lunacy over the anti-​islamic car­toons says:

But if Mus­lims do not want their alleged prophet iden­ti­fied with bar­baric acts or ado­les­cent fan­tasies, they should say pub­licly that random murder for vir­gins is not in their religion.

Which, of course, lots of Mus­lims say all the time. Every time some idiot extrem­ist blows some­thing or some­body up, James Zogby over at the Arab Amer­i­can Insti­tute has to issue a press release to point out, again, that they think these people are idiots too. But all I hear in the press is, “Mus­lims never do any­thing to dis­avow terrorism.”

I don’t know if it’s just lazi­ness or what, but this kind of thing is just get­ting on my nerves. So I ask:

When will Chris­tians repu­di­ate the abor­tion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph? Are they in league with him? Do they sup­port his ter­ror­ist tac­tics? Why hasn’t the pope said any­thing about this? These Chris­t­ian ter­ror­ists must be stopped!

¹ I used to hear Christo­pher Hitchens referred to as a clear-​thinking lib­er­tar­ian genius, but lately his writ­ing has gotten just incred­i­bly sloppy and poorly rea­soned. And every time I see him on TV he seems drunk. Maybe they meant to call him a “libertine.” What’s up with that?