Witty line on clever repartee
“No one really cares about the facts Hitchens brings to bear. He could be making one case today and the opposite case tomorrow. Would anybody notice? They’re just interested in the rococo tapestry he weaves around the facts. You don’t walk away saying, ‘I’ve learned X, Y or Z from Hitchens,’ you walk away saying, ‘Wasn’t that a witty line? Wasn’t that a clever repartee?’ ”
Labels: Christopher Hitchens, Norman Finkelstein, politics, society
posted by Jacob A. Stam at 10/01/2008 09:50:00 PM
6 Comments:
Exactly.
As Eliot Parsons would say.
Hitchens is a twit... or is that a twat?
Present tense?
Any tense...
Speaking of Eliot Parsney, I've been having a squiz over at WD...
Now, what in the world is this latest neverending rant about, on that US economy thread? Obviously its about the US credit crisis, etc., but what the hell is that demented abacus trying to prove, exactly? Other than what a grade-A fucking genius he is, I mean? Did that Scot D guy say something unflattering about Dubya's response to the crisis or something?
Oh never mind, I don't think I really want to know.
It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
You're just saying that.
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