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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:56 am 
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Comedian Frankie Howard used to do a routine where he made out that he had given some very important person a piece of his mind, he then goes onto reveal that he had actually just shouted the comments through their letter box. When I see Hitchen's I always think of the Howard routine because much of his writing is nothing more than shouting his views through a letter box and then running off.

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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satnav wrote:
Comedian Frankie Howard used to do a routine where he made out that he had given some very important person a piece of his mind, he then goes onto reveal that he had actually just shouted the comments through their letter box. When I see Hitchen's I always think of the Howard routine because much of his writing is nothing more than shouting his views through a letter box and then running off.


He also does that "Affronted" look in a very Howardesque way.


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:38 pm 
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Bones McCoy wrote:

He also does that "Affronted" look in a very Howardesque way.


You know, you're dead right. Next time he appears on QT I'll be expecting him to say "nay, nay, and thrice NAY!"

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:54 pm 
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Everyone's terribly sweet... but what a festival of drivel!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1cvQg4YaB

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Every crank, dingbat and fanatic in Southern England has found his or her way to the camp by the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Given time, every faddist in Europe will arrive.
Which is Hitchens? Crank, dingbat, or fanatic?

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these anarchists are vandalising St Pauls and using it as a toilet. These people are filth, why haven't the riot police been used?! Can you imagine if this was outside a mosque?
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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Abernathy wrote:
Bones McCoy wrote:

He also does that "Affronted" look in a very Howardesque way.


You know, you're dead right. Next time he appears on QT I'll be expecting him to say "nay, nay, and thrice NAY!"[/quote]

Funny you should say that because both Howard and Hitchens look distinctly equine to me.

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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these anarchists are vandalising St Pauls and using it as a toilet. These people are filth, why haven't the riot police been used?! Can you imagine if this was outside a mosque?
- Rob, England, 6/11/2011 10:10


If it were the EDL would have turned up to lob some Help for Heroes bacon at it.

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:08 pm 
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oboogie wrote:
Abernathy wrote:
Bones McCoy wrote:

He also does that "Affronted" look in a very Howardesque way.


You know, you're dead right. Next time he appears on QT I'll be expecting him to say "nay, nay, and thrice NAY!"[/quote]

Funny you should say that because both Howard and Hitchens look distinctly equine to me.


I can't see Hitch taking kindly to audience "Tittering".
Nor sharing Frankie's rather revisionist approach to classical learning.


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:53 am 
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Drivel.... That's a word Hitchen's uses a lot....

The real sense I am getting from the core of the occupy protestors is that people are fed up with the mix of corporate greed, media spin and politics. Which Hitchens appears to agree with.

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The backroom fixers, who create them and mould them, represent the real power, which in the U.S. and increasingly in Britain comes from big-money backers. As Bob Dylan sang long ago ‘Money doesn’t talk, it swears’.

If we want to get control of our country back, we have to devise a way of liberating politics from such people.


There's a lot of drivel from the right, which mainly comes from distortion, lies, hate and fear. Maybe Hitchens should look a bit closer to home rather than, ironically, berate the left.

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Oh and cannabisskunksense has given a handjob to Hitchens..... no bias there....

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Generally, Hitchens is weak in arguments, given his lack of supporting evidence, so he usually attempts to claim his opponents' arguments as either the product of stupidity or malice. He seems to lack the ability to meet an opposing point of view head on.


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Dead right. And wotcha, welcome aboard, what's your position on sausages?


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Hitch minor thinks arguments are won by scowling. He who looks the most po-faced is the most aggrieved and therefore the most right. The person who is less sour cares less because they privately know they are full of it. :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Dead right. And wotcha, welcome aboard, what's your position on sausages?

Cheers; and I'm a traditionalist in that department. If apples were intended to be in sausages then pigs would like eating them . . . oh hang on.

Hitch minor thinks arguments are won by scowling

I don't think he knows how to argue, to be honest, originally I thought this was down to a strategy to get his message across, but I'm more sure now he's just very weak writer, speaker and thinker, given that his 'arguments' essentially consist of them asserting the same points repeatedly, and then using waffle to paper over the gaping holes in what he's saying. From what I've read of his books, they're largely the same.


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Any debate involving Hitch that he can't pre-rig basically devolves into a remake of the Monty Python argument sketch with all the humour replaced by sour-faced, misplaced righteousness.


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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Dead right. It's what's known in school circles as a "dead parrot" argument - absolute refusal to face the obvious facts. I think Charlie Brooker used the phrase a while ago.

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 Post subject: Re: Peter Hitchens
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Andy McDandy wrote:
Dead right. It's what's known in school circles as a "dead parrot" argument - absolute refusal to face the obvious facts. I think Charlie Brooker used the phrase a while ago.

He looks like a dead parrot as well.


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