ryan is the supernicety wrote: ] Except that the author of this anti-Moore rant is Christopher ] Hitchens, a Brit expat who often writes for Vanity Fair and ] The Nation. Not really a repub operative, expecially given ] his other recent Slate editorial "Not Even a Hedgehog: The ] stupidity of Ronald Reagan." I believe his criticisms are ] still somewhat valid: As I expected, Moore's criticism itself ] is segmented and has trouble creating a cohesive view. Not ] unlike my rants on memestreams. I take your point, but the article by Hitchens is made of the very stuff he complains about in Moore. I can hardly take him seriously when he so readily undermines his own means of presenting a case. Perhaps this is the new stock US requirement for "irony". Anyway, like you, I'll be seeing F 9/11 soon, less as a piece of objective reporting than a personal perspective which I can take or leave. Seeing the US defend freedom of speech remains a pleasure ... RE: Unfairenheit 9/11 - The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens |