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Christopher Hitchens is officially Scrooge.

Jill

But at least he’s an entertaining old coot.

And I would pay serious money just to hear him make up an insult for Pat Boone, who is perhaps the walking definition of a person with only the most flickering of intelligence. You have to marvel at the sheer magnitude of stupidity possessed by a man who writes things like this:

What troubles me so deeply, and should trouble all thinking Americans, is that there is a real, unbroken line between the jihadist savagery in Mumbai and the hedonistic, irresponsible, blindly selfish goals and tactics of our homegrown sexual jihadists.

Couldn’t make it up if I tried.

17 thoughts on Christopher Hitchens is officially Scrooge.

  1. I wonder if Boone has noticed that its his political sentiments (enforce gender roles by force of law), and not those of LGBT activists, that are aligned with those of religious fundamentalist terrorists.

  2. yeah, PG, I was thinking the same thing. but I don’t know, I understand where Hitchens is coming from on the “holiday spirit” overload. though I’ve never really claimed not to be scrooge.

  3. Oh my God. Did the man seriously just connect the Mumbai attacks to…LGBT rights?!

    Also, I lost all respect for Christopher Hitchens when he wrote the foreward of Infidel and argued that, you know, problems in the developing world? Not due to histories of imperialism or colonialism or any sort of complicity of America and Europe towards dictators. It was all the fault of their religions! Ugggggghhhhhhhhh. I’m sorry if that’s off-topic, but I have to get that off of my chest.

  4. I read the quote at first and thought “what’s wrong with that? We say that all the time.” Then I reread it, caught “hedonistic,” and realized he wasn’t talking about the conservapods.

  5. There are so many things wrong with that Pat Boone article… wait. Pat Boone is alive?

    But marriage is between a man and a woman — Webster’s dictionary even says so! Interestingly, my copy of Webster’s (from 1980 but that is irrelevant, because anything that makes it into the DICTIONARY is everlasting and unchanging) defines “photography” as “the art of producing pictures by the chemical action of light on sensitive film.” Therefore, this thing they call “digital photography” does not really exist! Just like those fictional “rights.”

    Also, my Webster’s does not include an entry for “computer.” Make of that what you will.

    What a douchebag.

  7. Could you please post a warning before linking to Wing Nut Daily? Now I’ve exceeded my exposure to the Maximum Daily Level of Stupidity already and it’s only 8:00 a.m. This cannot possibly be good for my mental health.

    Oh, and Pat Boone can kiss my snowy white lesbian ass.

  8. Am I the only person here who remembers Pat Boone’s metal album? You know, the one with him on the cover looking like an over-the-hill leatherman? If I’m remembering right it was called “In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy.” I remember seeing an interview with him around when it came out where he talked about how nice everyone he talked to was and how the metal scene wasn’t nearly as scary as he thought it was. One of the folks he talked to was Rob Halford. Just sayin’…

  9. Marriage is not a governmental creation; it is a time honored and biblically ordained institution that is subject not to the government but to the will of the people.

    This is perhaps the most stupid and logically absurd sentence I have ever read in my entire life. Someone needs to sit Pat Boone down and explain very, very gently that if if marriage had nothing to do with government, we wouldn’t be voting on it you fucking idiot. Oh, and that in our country, the will of the people decides the government.

  11. Cara: While they’re at it they might want to explain that the “time honored and biblically ordained” tradition that is neither subject to the whim of the people nor to government interference is something of a modern concept which is rooted most firmly not in the culture of the bible but in the mores and needs of European royalty and business classes. Moreover, its something which is clearly subject to both the government and the people as it’s definition has constantly fucking changed as social demands have changed.

  12. ‘Sexual jihadists’ sound like people who would go blow up a bus or something if only they had the willpower to stop banging one another.

  13. I totally want a shirt that reads “Sexual Jihadist.” Perhaps I will develop a hedonistic crotch bump to go with it.

  14. I cannot hear mention of Hitchens without quoting Galloway: “drink soaked former Trotskyist poppinjay.”

    Also, Pat Boone made his entire career watering down the music of a queer black genius so that racist white parents found it palatable. Then, he attempted to play metal. Which he abandoned as soon as it didn’t make him a lot of money. So, yeah, I’m questioning the man’s motive. Not that, if he really believed the stuff he says, it would be anything to be proud of. Real American Taliban or over-the-hill, money-grubbing poser? What a choice.

  15. Sexual Jihadists? We have those? Why wasn’t I informed? Damn it! I always miss out on all the good stuff.

    BTW- I think Mr. Boone doth protest too much. I feel he may be of the same ilk as the guy who goes undercover to the gay leather events (I forgot his name) to “expose” all of the eevul goings-on. Oh, he wants to do some “exposing” all right…

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