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[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's fair to say he was ungenuine or just chasing a pay day.

He did a good job of delivery early on. But once he started defending George Bush Jr - a man who stacked his career on phony religious pandering - the mask dropped like a rock. No one who goes this hard for an American Christian Conservative can possibly hold the views he claimed a decade earlier.

Maybe he changed over time. Or maybe Rupert Murdoch found the price for his soul. But the guy sold out hard all through the '00s.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

hitchens is the posterboy for the modern trot-to-neocon/fascist pipeline