••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Monday, September 19, 2005

mud v slime

last week at baruch college in nyc, george galloway and christopher hitchens debated the war in iraq.

at least that was supposed to be the subject.

saturday, when i tuned in late to the pre-recorded 2-hour broadcast on book tv, i heard almost nothing but both men throwing ad hominems at each other. they didn't stop short of guilt by association, of course. galloway lumped hitchens together with bush and cheney, while hitchens invoked the names of michael moore, jane fonda, and the oil-for-food program.

fortunately it got rerun and i saw the beginning. hitchens made the first remarks and actually stayed on-topic for most of his time, but a couple minutes before the end of his opening statement he unloaded his first personal attack on galloway.

he took on the wrong guy. galloway reversed the sequence and lit into hitchens with a devastating series of body blows before he moved on to the war. he knew hitchens' record surprisingly well, and in his hands it became an exposé of hypocrisy and of hitchens' migration during the last decade or so from the trotskyist left to the neocon right.

if you want to watch, go to c-span's website.

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