“Stop nodding your fat head – sit down and shut up!” These were Christopher Hitchens’ words to Philip Nobile, a lefty journalist who hijacked Hitch’s Barnes and Noble book-reading for a rant about Vanity Fair’s lack of affirmative action. You gotta love Hitch. He smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and is one of the last remnants of a culture that knows how to fight back against cant. Now that John Prescott has decked a protestor and Hitch has called one a fat-ass, is the tide turning against loopy protesters?
NOW THEY TELL US: The South Africa health minister announced this week that her government has no intention whatsoever of buying any anti-retroviral drugs for use against HIV. Didn’t notice the story? It was barely reported. The South African government wants to spend money on health infrastructure first. Okay, so where are the howls of complaint from Tina Rosenberg, John Le Carre, Anthony Lewis, and on and on? Are they only protesting against capitalism or are they serious about their campaign against AIDS? Their silence is eloquent.
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