Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6714 Post contents: Maud, I don't quite see what you want, other than a moratorium on comments critical of Hitchens. As I pointed out to you, the substance of Hitchens' arguments, such as they are, have already been addressed at this website. Hitchens isn't making a reasoned argument calling for a reasoned response when he tells Fr. Rutler he is a child molester and a layabout. Indeed, it seems to me that Hitchens' partisans are in no position to complain about rude comments about their hero. The man sure can dish it out, but his partisans can't seem to take it. Hitchens has made a habit of saying offensive things in offensive ways. One generally doesn't criticize the deceased during the funeral, yet Hitchens did exactly that during ABC's televised coverage of Mother Teresa's funeral. Hitchens also writes scathing obituaries of people he hates, including John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Ronald Reagan, and even Bob Hope, tossing "de mortuis nil nisi bonum" aside. Hitchens gave the finger to Bill Maher's TV audience, and has often used its verbal equivalent in interviews. Sent at: 2008 05 16