Hitchens takes down Vidal; no, he really just sticks a fork in him:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002?printable=true. I've thought Vidal as pathetic for a long time--lounging about in his Italian villa or wherever with the fawning Tim Robbins and Susan Sarrandons of the world jetting in to take aperitifs and smirk approvingly at his carnival act of America loathing. Now, he does that at college campuses in a sort of tag team act with fellow wallower, Chomsky. His act appeals to those predisposed to thinking and assuming the worst of their country, or Western culture in general. The kind of people that really should be herded into work camps or at least to a Cuban or Venezualan sugar cane collective in order to live out their Utopian fantasies of a worker's paradise.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002?printable=true. I've thought Vidal as pathetic for a long time--lounging about in his Italian villa or wherever with the fawning Tim Robbins and Susan Sarrandons of the world jetting in to take aperitifs and smirk approvingly at his carnival act of America loathing. Now, he does that at college campuses in a sort of tag team act with fellow wallower, Chomsky. His act appeals to those predisposed to thinking and assuming the worst of their country, or Western culture in general. The kind of people that really should be herded into work camps or at least to a Cuban or Venezualan sugar cane collective in order to live out their Utopian fantasies of a worker's paradise.
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