Re: [chat] Lies?

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Richard Ashburner wrote:

> Hitchens is a Brit, an Oxbridge graduate and a socialist.

ROFL. As in National Socialist?

We had fun with http://www.politicalcompass.org recently, but I don't
think anyone twigged .

> He's also (unlike Mr Mooore) a journalist who believes in checking facts

Really. I didn't see too much of that in his other articles.

> and challenging the zeitgeist when it doesn't stack up to reality.

ROTFPMP. What Hitchens does is to pick the incoming wave of populist
revelation and write about it [1]. I can not remember Hitchens actually
breaking any story. "Gushing" fits a lot of his writing even when the
evidence is very strong to the contrary.

...snip.....

> He's famous for among other things, exposing the previously
> unchellengable reputation of Mother Theresa as wholly fraudulent ..

30 year old news!

Look, save your breath and stop making assumptions. I don't like Michael
Moore's grip on "facts" either. He is just another facit of the
"American Way". What is good about him is that he is prepared to do
stuff that challenges people to think about things. Of course, most
people have never thought about anything in their life, so his efforts
are wasted there.

> On top of this, anyone who has ever worked with him, seems to hate him
> personally. He's been publically exposed being a right shit more than
> once.

Okay, guessing contest. Name a few "highly respected" aussies that would
fit that?

> " Find a mob of 'Believers', get rich entertaining them. "

Spot on. Just another "American Way".

[1] If you want to waste some time one day, open a browser window onto
each of the major news sources "breaking news" pages and watch the flow
and evolution of the news. Watch what hits the headlines and what
doesn't.  See if you can pick what is going to become the big stories,
then research and write your one WWW/blog on it. You too can be as good
as Hitchens.


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