Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a 'crackpot'

[dudalb]

George Galloway?

You mean George Galloway right?

Hey everyone, he means GEORGE Galloway!

Newsflash, he's a very minor politician and annoying talking head. That's ALL he is here.

He also furnishes a lot of material for comedians, consdiering the number of Galloway jokes I heard when last in London.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

He also furnishes a lot of material for comedians, consdiering the number of Galloway jokes I heard when last in London.

True. He's a bit of a laughing stock. Bear in mind that in the picture above he was acting like a cat. A cat. This is an elected official.

I have no idea what his reach is abroad, but here, he's a rather bad joke.

 

[Rrose Selavy]

True. He's a bit of a laughing stock. Bear in mind that in the picture above he was acting like a cat. A cat. This is an elected official.

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No you are incorrect. He was not acting like a cat in the picture .That is not the cat scene. The scene depicted in the leotard was a separate "mime task".
In the cat scene with Rula Lenska he was wearing a white lab coat.

 

[portlandatheist]

No you are incorrect. He was not acting like a cat in the picture .That is not the cat scene. The scene depicted in the leotard was a separate "mime task".
In the cat scene with Rula Lenska he was wearing a white lab coat.

Thanks for the clarification

 

[quixotecoyote]

There's a world outside the United States. When I talk about the Loony Left, I'm talking about the Galloway, Chavez, Pilger, Moore and Chomsky and the likes, not Obama.

quixotecoyote's self-identification of Pardalis' "the loony left" with Obama reminds me of the old joke about the Jew who was arrested during WWI in Moscow for saying one of the kings in the conflict is an idiot. He said in his trial that he meant the Kaiser, but the judge wasn't buying it: you said "stupid king" -- everybody knows that can only mean the Czar!

Given that the discussion was about Vidal v Hitchens, an American and an English-American who lives in DC, I find pardalis's attempt to deflect outside the US disingenuous and your piling on more so.

There also was no 'self-identification.' Paradalis shifted from Left to Looney Left after I called him on his ********.

 

[Cicero]

Hitch might wish to invoke William F. Buckley's all time classic rebuke of Vidal.

"Now listen you queer, stop calling me a crypto Nazi, or I'll sock you in your god-dammed face and you'll stay plastered." William F. Buckley to Gore Vidal.


http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/95207/detail/

 

[Rrose Selavy]

That Buckley's got form.
Here he is threatening to punch Chomsky in the face.
But I'm sure he really wouldn't hit a man with glasses.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIrZO069Kg

 

[Eddie Dane]

That Buckley's got form.
Here he is threatening to punch Chomsky in the face.
But I'm sure he really wouldn't hit a man with glasses.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIrZO069Kg

He didn't threaten him. He made a joke in reference to the Gore Vidal incident.

 

[Cayvmann]

As long as it helps their cause to bring down the US and capitalism, they'll get in bed with just about anyone.

Conspiracy irony right there

 

[Rrose Selavy]

He didn't threaten him. He made a joke in reference to the Gore Vidal incident.

I know. A threat in jest is still a threat.

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[Cicero]

I know. A threat in jest is still a threat.

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Would you feel better if it was a promise in jest?