{"id":489,"date":"2005-02-03T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=489"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:59:54","slug":"smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/smackdown","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Larkin offers the top 10 ass-kickings delivered by Chris Hitchens<\/a> in 2004, including<\/p>\n

6) On John Kerry:
“I heard that people were sending the checks to the $10,000-a-plate dinner, or whatever it was–they were sending the check, they wouldn’t come to the dinner. That’s too much. ‘I’ll pay you not to have me to dinner with the nominee.’ That may be a rumor, but it did appear in the NY Times fairly authoritatively, and it seems somehow horribly true. Also it seems to me astonishing that the test of a Democratic liberal now is to be gung ho, or have been gung ho, about Vietnam. Of all wars. And then, did he think Mr. John O’Neil had died? Did he sort of check? Because the last time he tried this, it’s agreed by all that John O’Neil gave him a pretty good run for his money back in the seventies. Whatever you think about the merits of the case.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Larkin offers the top 10 ass-kickings delivered by Chris Hitchens in 2004, including 6) On John Kerry:“I heard that people were sending the checks to the $10,000-a-plate dinner, or whatever it was–they were sending the check, they wouldn’t come to the dinner. That’s too much. ‘I’ll pay you not to have me to dinner … <\/p>\n

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