Posted by
Andrews on Friday, January 23, 2009 5:41:06 PM
Sometimes I run across arguments where I wish both sides could lose. And one such case is the
Christopher Hitchens Watch. (Thanks to
Best of the Web for pointing out this site.) While Hitchens has been right on a few issues, mostly to do with terrorism, he has been wrong on even more. And while he seems to be enjoying his role as the intellectual outsider due to his new found conservatism, I have to wonder how much is honest belief, and how much is the liberal intellectual counterpart of John McCain's "maverick" image. In short, I think a lot is play acting.
So I was fascinated to hear of a site attacking him. And it was interesting. But it was also tedious and annoying. Filled with "War for Oil", "Haliburton war profiteering" rhetoric, it read like a DailyKos screed. For every correct criticism of Hitchens it had a dozen dubious assertions about the Bush administration.
Why does it seem that whenever I find a critic of one idiocy, they always end up a proponent of a new idiocy all their own?