Here. A B+ stylist with a C- mind. And let's not forget this display of moral depravity, which probably explains all the fawning in the American media over him.
UPDATE: And another. The best line though goes to a Facebook friend who wrote that she "will be interested to see whether a second-rate pseudo-contrarian narcissistic gasbag KEEPS ON getting more coverage from his fellow journalists than, say, Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong il."
AND MORE from Greenwald. Hitchens's moral depravity was worse than I realized. (Thanks to Keith DeRose for this link.)
ANOTHER: Roger Albin (Michigan) writes with an interesting set of observations:
Greenwald is very good on Hitchens, Reagan, and the phenomenon of bland public adulation of the recently deceased. Greenwald doesn’t, however, go far enough in his analysis of the public treatment of Reagan’s death. The Reaganolatry phenomenon, of which Reagan’s funeral was a notable example, is largely a reflection of the Right’s need for an iconic, Rooseveltian figure. They have to leave out that Reagan’s great achievement, serving as an interlocutor for Gorbachev, was actually an example of the détente policy despised by the Right, and that Reagan was criticized bitterly for his actions by many of the same people who now pretend to revere him. Reaganolatry demonstrates their essential need for authoritarianism. Since they haven’t been able to produce an authentic charismatic authoritarian leader, they have to invent one. Our media, of course, is too lazy and complaisant to notice inconvenient facts like these.
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