{"id":1079,"date":"2006-05-03T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","slug":"mouthfrothingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Mouth-Frothingly Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Yale Department Chair Army-of-Juan Cole comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2006\/05\/hitchens-hacker-and-hitchens.html\" target=\"browser\">completely, jaw-droppingly unhinged today<\/a>. Go check it out before he &#8220;Winston Smiths&#8221; it (note &#8211; gruesome pictures of wounded soldiers).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, first, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2140947\/fr\/rss\/\" target=\"browser\">the Christopher Hitchens piece<\/a> that triggered Cole&#8217;s frothing scenery-chewing, then go over to Juan&#8217;s site and snicker.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the Yale faculty committee thinks of someone who writes like this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>All the warmongers in Washington, including Hitchens, if he falls into that camp, should get this through their heads. <b>Americans are not fighting any more wars in the Middle East against toothless third rate powers.<\/b> So sit down and shut up.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>One, two, three, four! We don&#8217;t want your stinking war!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nWe are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran&#8217;s Ahvaz fields.<\/p>\n<p>\n[emphasis, and spittle, in the original]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>[Update:<\/b> Cole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2006\/05\/hitchens-not-drunk-only-asinine-thief.html\" target=\"browser\">replies yet again<\/a>, elevating the tone &#8211; or, more accurately, hitting bottom and continuing to dig:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I had so hoped that the purloined email and the bizarre characterization of my argument, and the attempt of this Western journalist who is clueless about reading Persian texts to correct my philology, was the mere result of too many whiskey sours taken too early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I see that instead it is mere asininity and lack of character. Thanks to Sullivan for settling the issue.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, I&#8217;d pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaledailynews.com\/article.asp?AID=32357\" target=\"browser\">$43,050 a year<\/a> to have one of my kids learn from wisdom like that&#8230;<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Cole comes unhinged &#8211; no, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}