Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and upchucks on his own reflection:
- I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged for telegrams of support to be sent to the White House. And I wondered — did he eagerly tear them open and turn moistly to his aides, saying, “See: You can always count on the horse sense of the American people”? Was he, in other words, utterly and happily insulated and yet alarmingly insane?
I’m sure Andrew Sullivan will call it courageous, and I do hope that it ruined Arthur Chrenkoff’s day, but this guy knows the score:
- Chris Hitchens has finally found something so atrocious he can’t stand by it in this war. Ready for it? He is upset that the U.S. is lying to the Iraqis. It was ok, I suppose, when they were only lying to their own citizens about this war, but now that they are planting bullsh*t in the Iraqi media rather than feeding it to Judy Miller, now that’s a crime.