I see those long, long diaries. Thoroughly researched, linked, downright scholarly in fact. I like them. Respect them. But I kind of prefer the Atrios school of short & sweet. Things like, Hitchens- Wanker - please discuss.
This being Kos, not an IM forum, I'll go a little further.
Wilson & Hitchens are in the spotlight again. With the latest revelations about Bush's leaking (um, de-classifying) classified info, Hitchens, he of that rapier wit, must come to the rescue of the neocons once again. On Hardball tonight he used his drunken master fighting technique to illustrate that Wilson has now been completely discredited. This, of course, means that he is citing solely his own
"reporting" of two days ago and elevating it to "common knowledge" status. If he could have lifted his head more than six inches off the desk, I may have been more impressed with his gravitas.
Yesterday, of course, Wilson was confronted with this expose on Olbermann and dismissed it with ease.
OLBERMANN: Is that the same story as this, that was purported online today by Christopher Hitchens, whose reporting is on occasion very sound, he wrote that in February of `99, a man named Wisam al-Zahawari, Zahaiwai, excuse me...
WILSON: Zahawi.
OLBERMANN: ... Zahawi, was the Iraqi representative at that point of the International Atomic Energy Agency, paid an official visit to Niger. He doesn`t come out and explicitly say that that trip in `99 was to seek uranium, but his headline does. It reads, "Sorry, everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger." Is there merit to the Hitchens story?
WILSON: No. Mr. Al-Zahawi, Wisam al-Zahawi, who is a man that I know from my time as the acting ambassador in Baghdad during the first Gulf War, in the first Bush administration. He was ambassador to the Vatican, and he made a trip in 1999 to several West and Central African countries for the express purpose of inviting chiefs of state to violate the ban on travel to Iraq.
He has said repeatedly to the press, he`s now in retirement, and also to the International Atomic Energy Agency, to their satisfaction, that uranium was not on his agenda.
So...
Hitchens- Drunk- Wanker- Who's Paying This Asshole?
Update- Changed to read Hitchens was on Hardball tonight.