  urlLink Christopher hitchens is still trying desparately to carve out his niche as "the sensible left-winger who supported the war in Iraq. " Fortunately, no one really cares what Hitchens has to say any more. Hitchens reveals his stunning insight that Moore's a propagandist. Thank you, Mr. Hitchens! Gee, I would never have guessed that Moore's films are not well-reasoned balanced documentaries. What an idiotic critique. Hitchens sounds particularly testy in this article, as if he has a very bad case of hemorrhoids. Perhaps he is upset that Moore has achieved popularity that Hitchens can only dream of, regardless, I am sure even conservatives will write more sensible criticisms of F9/11.
Most amusing is Hitchens final paragraph: If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture.
Rock the vote, indeed. First, notice a phrase in that last line "celeb-rotten culture. " Funny for someone who writes for Vanity Fair to call our culture "celeb-rotten. " Anyhow, on to my point. In this final paragraph Hitchens accuses Moore of holding ridiculous positions based on mere implications. In short Hitchens engages in a bit of anti-Moore propagand. However, Hitchens whole article before this paragraph consists of condemning Moore for using shameless propaganda methods in his film. What rank hypocrite, what a pathetic figure Hitchens is. Hitchens apparently cannot think in nuanced terms. With him you are all for war or else you support Baathism. One expects this from an uneducated right-winger, not from a former left-wing writer once known for his critical faculty. 
