U of M's Juan Cole trashes your boy, Hitchy.
"Not just anyone can be published in Slate. Most academics could not get a gig there. Hitchens is paid to publish there because he is a prominent journalist. But then he should behave like a journalist, not like a hired gun for the far Right, smearing hapless targets of his ire. That isn't journalism."
2006-05-03
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http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/05/hitch_vs_cole.html
Cole's got it all wrong, according to Andrew Sullivan (yet another reformed leftist). Sullivan says that Cole gets personal, while Hitchy sticks to facts and logic.
I'm still waiting for Tom to justify calling Hitchy a "hack"; Cole makes the same claim ("hired gun for the right"), also sans one scrap of evidence.
Hitchy responds:
http://www.radioblogger.com/#001591
http://www.slate.com/id/2140947/
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