Graham ([info]tao_) wrote,
@ 2007-01-22 03:22:00
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The truth outs!
There's an article in today's Observer titled 'How The Left Lost Its Way'. Fantastic! At long last someone is investigating the way Christopher Hitchens and a few others sort of went mad on September 11, put their support behind the most right wing President in living memory, and became cheerleaders for a war that would lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and...

...oh, wait, no, it's by Nick Cohen.

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[info]bergenboi
2007-01-22 04:01 am UTC (link)
I count myself as a liberal, but it seems to me that my lefty friends spend a lot of time pointing out their hypocrisies to each other, rather than focusing on solving a specific problem. It's like they would rather tell everyone how wrong they're doing everything rather than work towards a goal. Maybe I'm even doing that right now.

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[info]on_the_road_
2007-01-22 06:10 pm UTC (link)
There was a review of that book by Nick Cohen by Hitchens in the Sunday Times....

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[info]cloudcucku
2007-01-22 11:07 pm UTC (link)
Hello Graham - Sorry, this is completely unrelated but have you seen this? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6285923.stm

It includes themed events such as The Father Jack Cocktail Evening, Hide A Nun And Seek, Buckaroo Speed Dating (??!) and fancy dress five-aside football - Nuns vs Priests!!

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[info]il_capitano_z
2007-01-23 02:48 pm UTC (link)
damn, you beat me to it.
here is the Guardian story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1995710,00.html

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