So sad Hitchens is so full of koo-laid

[sasha031]

what a nasty bastard he is.anyone listening, he is a liar.

[Roachman]

1. I agree completely...

But I have no idea what you are listening to.

With Hitch these days, does it matter?

[noahmijo]

2. I'm listening I can't believe hardly anyone else is

Unless they're focusing on saving that poor woman in Texas :(

Galloway starting now.

[stillcool]

3. I love Galloway...

butterfly back into a cocoon...slug...full of slime...too good

[longship]

4. Gees Louise!!

Galloway is using ad hominem!!

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this.

[Taxloss]

6. What an uncharacteristic tactic for Galloway.

:sarcasm:

That said, out of this ugly pairing, I hope he wins.

[longship]

9. Well, he came around just fine.

And Hitch started the ad hominems, so I guess Galloway is forgiven.

He's nailing that drunken sot.

[Taxloss]

10. If Hitch started it, GG will end it.

PS GG is "fond of a drink" himself. But not nearly to Hitch's extent.

[napi21]

5. What a GREAT line from Galloway!

"You are witnessing the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug! And we all know that a slug always behind it a trail of slime!"

[PatrioticLeftie]

7. Sorry for sounding

Like a foolish newbie, but I have read the 'kool-aid' references for a while and have not managed to find out what it means.

[napi21]

12. You remember that idiot in Calif., Manson I think, had all his

followers drink poison kool-aid because he told them too, and they all died? Well, that's the reference to kool-aid and Shrub's followers will do anything he asks.

[Taxloss]

14. No, it was the Jamestown massacre.

Not Manson.

[Old and In the Way]

20. Jonestown, actually.....in New Guinea, I think.

[Taxloss]

23. Guyana - James/Jones was my mistake.

[hlthe2b]

24. GUYANA..South America

[PatrioticLeftie]

17. Oh

Yeah, I heard about that, didn't know it was kool-aid.

[Taxloss]

13. It's a reference to the Jamestown massacre in the 1970s.

They were so in love with their cult leader, they drank the poisoned kool-aid and died. It applies to doctrinaire RWers.

[hlthe2b]

21. NO! JONESTOWN massacre: Jim Jones was the cult leader

when Congressional Reps came to check (tropical Guyana), they were murdered by cult leaders at the landing strip-- who then led the cult in mass suicide by purple poisoned koolaid.

[Taxloss]

22. Oops! My bad.

[hlthe2b]

25. Actually, I wish I didn't remember so vividly...

I was pretty young and it really shook me up.


I even remember the Congressman's name: Leo Ryan, from CA

[no_hypocrisy]

19. In 1979 in Guyana, "Reverend" Jim Jones told thousands of his followers

that the end of the world was upon them. They had had dress rehearsals for this event. They got in lines, marched up, and drank Dixiecups of Koolaid because he told them to. And it was just Koolaid. Until the day that it was the end of the world because he told them it was and they believed him without question. And this time the Koolaid had cyanide in it. The infants who couldn't swallow the Koolaid had injections of the poison instead. And they all drank it without question. And they lay down and died. Thousands of them. Jim Jones didn't drink the Koolaid. He shot himself in the head.

Hope that gives you historical and cultural allusions.

[Taxloss]

8. Does anyone have a link to an internet feed I can listen to?

I'm in the UK. I loathe Hitchens and don't like Galloway, but this I have to hear.

[napi21]

15. I've got this one.

www.democracynow.org/

[Old and In the Way]

16. I'm listening watching here

rtsp://rx-wes-sea141.rbn.com/farm/pull/mtx-wes-sea04:1259/farm/pull/tx-rbn-sea05:1259/farm/demnow/demnow/live/live.rm

[stillcool]

18. here you go..

http://www.democracynow.org/
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/09/tomorrow_hitche.html

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Why does anyone even bother with such a drink-soaked popinjay

as Hitchens anyway?

[Taxloss]

26. "Everything I say has at leas 10 pages of documentation behind it"

Printouts from Little Green Fuckups don't count, Hitch.

And his defence of Iraqi trade unionism is sick.

[Taxloss]

27. "How far has this neocon rot seeped into your soul?"

Fantastic line.