February 04, 2003

The Reliable Source

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Hitchens's Right-Wing Stuff
We remember when our friend Christopher Hitchens was a card-carrying (or at least Scotch-hoisting) member of the left. But the British-born polemicist has apparently come a very long way since he stopped writing for the Nation magazine last year. In the new issue of Doublethink, a Washington-based right-wing quarterly, Hitchens reveals that he plans to support President Bush's reelection campaign -- never mind his recent Vanity Fair puff piece about Democratic hopeful John Edwards. "I don't believe in [Edwards]" Hitchens tells Doublethink interviewer Tom Ivancie. "I mean, I told him I wouldn't vote for him. . . . Because I'd vote for Bush. The important thing is this: Is a candidate completely serious about prosecuting the war on theocratic terrorism to the fullest extent? Only Bush is." Hitchens also scoffs at the Everyman pitch of the millionaire trial lawyer turned North Carolina senator:"Oh, that's all [bleep]. . . . Spare us the false populism."

Meanwhile, Hitchens suggests that old nemesis Bill Clinton was a CIA plant at Oxford, where both were students in the late 1960s. "I think he was a double," Hitchens says. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the anti-war draft resisters, and I think it was probably him. We had a girlfriend in common -- I didn't know then -- who's since become a very famous radical lesbian."

Un-fricking-believable. Christopher always has the BEST bull!
I really like Hitch enormously: he's very smart and he has a wonderful vocabulary together with a masterful command of the language, plus there are his marvelous perceptions which are, like David Horowitz's, only what former Leftist true believers would have.
He sounds drunk in this interview (doesn't he always? or is he always drunk?), but then so what?!
The only time he gets weird is when he wanders off on his "spook" stories like this one about Clintoon, the lesbian and CIA doubles...
Hitch, you sound more and more like a Conservative all the time.
Welcome to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy;
it's a nice, sane place to be!