Saul Bellow was a misogynist who posthumously outed his friend Allan Bloom. So fitting Wolfie got his cameo in Ravelstein. Has anything good come out of that amoral snakepit John D's loot inflicted on American academia save the late Senator Paul H Douglas?
Nice work on Team B. I guess they had Frank Church and Otis "My Man" Pike on the run by then via back channel coercion from Dr. K?
Figures Wolfie can get all tough to Al Franken's face in Midtown. I'd like to see the sonofabitch pull that with a cross section of old boy's like that TN guardsman who called Rummy out... er I mean carried water surreptiously for the objectively pro-Saddam librul media. (You know in your heart Coulter and Co. would have Gitmo'd him in a NYPost second if they coulda) Hitchens has done so much more just living on the top floor of the Wyoming (ever notice how he likes to lard his bullshit with the aside that he lives in one of the tallest building in DC-its like 10 stories maybe, you could use a fucking rope a la Batman to foil the fatwa fascists) than any of those yokels catching bullets over there.
If you have any lingering softspot for that asshole, just google up a Guardian story called "When Christopher met Peter." Its an interviews with him and his estranged brother before a live audience at some UK "festival". Well, towards the end he decides to light up a cigarette and some woman in the audience has the gall to ask him not too. Barry Bonds on a bad day couldn't have been a bigger prick in response, I'll just leave it at that.
I doubt they did that through Kissinger -- he was lumped in as an "appeaser" of the Soviets along with Ford. I imagine what congrsssional force they mustered was through the likes of Barry Goldwater.
Yeah, ive read that and listened to the clips from the last Hay-on-Wye festival where he tells an audience member to "fuck right off". If you can find the essay Hitch did on Conor Cruise O'Brien's crack-up, it's worth reading for its own sake (O'Brien too used to be a decent man) but now it has the extra virtue of being perfectly applicable to it's own author.
Interesting. Church would've had to heed old Barry's sotto voce threats with Idaho nurturing its fair share of Birchers. The guy who took Church out in 1980 was Goldwater proof.
But then you'd figure Birchers woulda been equally distrustful of the Company, from the right of course. In the same sense that you noted Dr. K was seen as soft and or a dupe by the Vulcans of Team B, surely that same sentiment musta trickled down to the demographic brilliantly catalogued by the CDB in "Ballad of the Uneasy Rider." Too bad Church, Pike and their allies couldn't have jujitsu'd the issue of CIA duplicity.
My semi-educated understanding of US intelligence history is there was deep class fissure dating back to the OSS under the unpedigreed Wild Bill Donovan vs the snob spooks that Truman derisively dubbed "the Princeton striped pants boys." Seems Church and Co. could have at least kept the declasse wingnuts on the sidelines by focusing on the patrician, elitist and INCOMPETENT nature of George HW Bush's and the Dulles boys covert fun and games over the years..."your congressman holding unelected, taxpayer sinecured bastards who think they're snot's fit for mixing cole slaw to account..."
That's "their snot". Fondly remembering ole Miss Bankston tonight, my fourth grade fascist grammarmarm. She loved the Iron Lady who was elected that spring of 1979. On the other hand, she did manage to pound the possessive vs the contraction in pretty good. To insufficiently quick studys, her most stinging rebuke was to throw up her rope veined 80 year old liver spotted claws and spleen us with " Its days like this teaching ya'll makes me wish I could just bore a hole and pour it in."
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