tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post114934536114696795..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Viva the Bullfrog: Pilger on Mandela, Hitchens on PaineStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1149565218311236042006-06-06T04:40:00.000+01:002006-06-06T04:40:00.000+01:00He tried to slit his throat, but was so hogwhimper...He tried to slit his throat, but was so hogwhimpering he missed.<BR/><BR/>I really think he'll be the first person to wet himself onstage at a literary festival.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1149551632937174952006-06-06T00:53:00.000+01:002006-06-06T00:53:00.000+01:00For me, Chavez is the litmus test. If an individua...For me, Chavez is the litmus test. <BR/><BR/>If an individual can sneerily trash a government which has been more democratically tested than any other in the world, which has been more vilified than any other, both within and without, and yet does not resort with violence... and yet has introduced measures which have immeasurably improved lives for millions of their own citizens against all the odds? And more to the point against the toad squatting above them?<BR/><BR/>I really do hope Hitchens is an old whiskey-soak. For the sort of vile treachery he comes out with about Chavez, its the only even quarter-way reasonable explanation of how he could do it without slitting his throat when he looks in a mirror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com