From Real Clear Politics, Cole Gets “Hitch-slapped”
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Goodness gracious, it’s time to introduce a new verb to the blogosphere vernacular. You can be “fisked” or you can be “Hitch-slapped,” which is what happened to Juan Cole in this piece on Slate last night (the one that everyone is talking about) and again on Hugh Hewitt’s show earlier this evening. Here’s a taste from the beginning of the interview:
Hugh Hewitt: Why don’t you tell people what’s going on here?
Christopher Hitchens: It’s a blog war. Well, some of your listeners may know of Professor Cole of the University of Michigan. He is acclaimed, at least by himself, expert on matters Shiia, particularly, and he also says he’s fluent in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. And for all I know, he is. But he’s 10th rate, and he’s a sordid apologist for Islamist terrorism, and for Islamist terrorist regimes.You will not want to miss the rest.
The Hitchens I love from the above Slate link:
No, what worries me more about Ahmadinejad is his devout belief in the return of the “occulted” or 12th imam and his related belief that, when he himself spoke recently at the United Nations, the whole scene was suffused with a sublime green light that held all his audience in a state of suspended animation. This uncultured jerk is, of course, only a puppet figure with no real power, but this choice of puppet by the theocracy is unsettling in itself. So is Iran’s complete lack of embarrassment at being caught, time and again, with nuclear enrichment facilities that have never been declared to the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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