Palabris: Finally, A Long-Overdue Tat for Hitchens's Righteous Tit

July 01, 2004

Finally, A Long-Overdue Tat for Hitchens's Righteous Tit

Kudos to Matt Taibbi of the New York Press. Finally, a response to Christopher Hitchens that puts intellectual honesty and journalistic courage in its rightful place, and exposes his righteous indignation for the fraud it is.

My favorite excerpt:

"Hitchens, like me and everyone else out there publishing, lives in a professional world where the idea of courage is submitting nice words about George Bush to the Nation, or maybe a "Rethinking Welfare Reform" piece to the Wall Street Journal. What Hitchens calls courage is really a willingness to offend one's intellectual constituency, and what he really means by that is honesty—something very different from courage. It's a nice quality, honesty, and the pundit out there who has it and still manages to make a living is, I guess, to be applauded. But again, let's not confuse that with courage.

"Courage is a willingness to face real risks—your neck, or at the very least, your job. The journalist with courage would have threatened to resign rather than repeat George Bush's justifications for invasion before it began. I don't remember anyone resigning last winter. The journalist with courage would threaten to quit rather than do a magazine piece about an advertiser's product, his fad diet book or his magic-bullet baldness cure. It happens every day, and nobody ever quits over it."

Read on - it's brilliant.

Posted by Palabris at July 1, 2004 11:32 AM

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