Gone To Meet His Maker, Whoever That Might Be
Drunkle Hitch has, as expected, weighed in on the passing of Jerry Falwell. I'm not one to speak ill of the dead, but I do loves me a good savage rant from everyone's favorite lit'ry critic and erstwhilely leftist drunken uncle!
"The evil that he did will live after him."
Someone buy that man another Remy Martin!!
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Wow - you picked the most
Wow - you picked the most anodyne line of the whole article to quote.
"sausage fingers" might have been my favorite. No wonder the guy croaked at what I consider a premature age - to say "he really let himself go" doesn't begin to cover matters.
Hitchens' charge of treason based on Falwell's Sep 2001 comments is hard to understand. Rank stupidity is a more apt and more damning charge.
Funny thing about rants like this from Hitchens? He's trying to make the counter-case to that of the (in my opinion) lunatic fringe of Christianity. He does so with such volume and venom, however, that he simply invites rhetorically gassy counterattack on par with the gas of his own attack, which he'll surely get should any of his intended victims read him. And if they don't, he's wasted his time preaching to the choir. Explosions of prose like this have no effect on people of faith, however far over the edge they might have wandered.
Only seldom does such a heated and overly-embellished rant do anything but make the author feel better. Well, that, plus make for interesting tantrum-reading. The guy sure can sling a word or three.