and the voices of unreason have lost another challenger. A sad day.
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Christopher Hitchens is dead
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Son of Barnabas
offlineMemberYou can just imagine the scene:
God: Welcome Christopher. This is your final chance. If you are prepared to admit my existence, you can live in eternal happiness. If not, you have in effect chosen to live in eternal nothingness. What do you say?
Hitchens (with fingers inserted firmly in ears and eyes tightly closed): na nr na nr na nr I can't hear or see anything! There's no evidence!
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Sinnick
offlineMemberLoss of a profound and brave intellect
It's worth viewing his entire interview with Jeremy Paxman
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waylandsmithy
offlineMemberWhy don't I hear about these people until they're dead?
Posted 1 year ago # -
ronseal
offlineMemberDon't worry, we've still got Peter Hitchens, his more talented brother.
Christopher Hitchens rarely got a piece in the Daily Mail, whereas Peter, his younger brother, had his own column.
That must have really hurt.
He tried all kinds of attention grabbing stunts, like attacking Mother Teresa and having a row with George Galloway on a prime time US reality TV show, he never managed to emulate his Mail on Sunday columnist sibling.
Nevertheless, despite being left wing, and a so called intellectual, many people say he could actually be a fairly decent man.
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dvo4fun
offlineMemberI think what pisses me off is that anyone in the media firmament gets a disproportionately large coverage when they shuffle off. Its not that their lives are more valuable, nor yet that they are more 'well known'; just that the news channels have more sounds stashed away in their archives.
Bloody lazy, heads up their own arse, editorial policy in m' view. With CH they will have had the benefit of being able to prepare plenty in advance, but that doesn't make the coverage more balanced. Just easier 'journalism'.
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John Ffitch-Rucker
offlineMemberDespite being from a different area of the political spectrum, I admired Hitchens for being a free thinker, which is a rarity in this age. I don’t care a gnat’s fuck for the media, but when a true intellect dies, we are all somewhat the poorer, and the passing should be noted. If it exposes people (who would not have otherwise encountered it) to original thought, then let the media circus play on.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Iscariot
offlineMemberAgree with Scroat; every pub has one, and they usually die from alcohol induced cancers. Oesophagal cancer seems to be the preference of whisky drinkers. Hitchens was a populist loudmouth who just liked an argument. He liked to adopt a leftish stance if possible, but wasn't really that bothered, he just liked the sound of his own voice. He echoed other peoples opinions and was not a groundbreaker. He made a small noise that didn't change anything at all in his lifetime.
Eulogy over. Now move along, nothing to see.
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shitsu_tonka
offlineMember"he just liked the sound of his own voice. He echoed other peoples opinions and was not a groundbreaker. He made a small noise that didn't change anything at all in his lifetime."
That describes most of us. Who does change the world in their lifetime?
So much spleen being vented here about CH. I'd hate to live in a world where such a talented writer wasn't celebrated at the moment of his death. Every pub does not have someone like CH. Every pub does however have it's fair share of miserable bastards who are so consumed by their own failures that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the success of others.
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I think that CH was someone who was willing to argue a case. Sometimes, as with Mother Teresa and Henry Kissinger, he was brilliantly correct. At other times, as with the disastrous Bush's disastrous War in Iraq, he was brilliantly wrong.
But he could not be ignored.
As for meeting his Maker, I think he would appreciate the irony and there would be a wonderful conversation.
But I doubt that it would ever happen.
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Nick McCarr
offlineMemberWorth re-quoting by ST: "Every pub does not have someone like CH. Every pub does however have it's fair share of miserable bastards who are so consumed by their own failures that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the success of others."
You might not agree with CH but you couldn't easily ignore him.
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