{"id":9618,"date":"2010-08-24T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9618"},"modified":"2010-08-24T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T22:01:38","slug":"the-canadian-discharger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-canadian-discharger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian discharger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of disgusting bile. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanadiancharger.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Charger<\/a> is an \u201calternative\u201d (alternative to sane, I presume) magazine that, according to the professor of communication studies, University of Windsor is one of the best examples of \u201calternative\u201d &#8211; I\u2019m going to add that to my annoying words list \u2013 media.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thecanadiancharger.com\/cms\/contributors\/images\/43\/joshua_blakeney_1.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an August 13<sup>th<\/sup> missive, Joshua Blakeney, whose photo seems to be a portrait of someone sitting on a cluster of burst haemorrhoids without the benefit of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemorrhoidshemroids.com\/hemroids-hemorrhoids-inflatable-rings-cushions-pillows-for-relief.html\" target=\"_blank\">inflatable ring cushion<\/a>, declares that Christopher Hitchens, through his oesophageal cancer, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanadiancharger.com\/page.php?id=5&amp;a=535\" target=\"_blank\">receiving his just desserts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On June 30, Vanity Fair journalist Christopher Hitchens posted on the magazine&#8217;s website that he has cancer of the esophagus. As I was contemplating this revelation, I couldn&#8217;t help feeling that the neoconservative armchair warrior was getting his just desserts.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of Hitchens having to cancel engagements at a time when an Israeli-American assault on Iran seems imminent is positive for humanity, I argue, because it deprives the war propaganda machine of one of its most erudite apologists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I disagree with Christopher Hitchens\u2019 views on Christianity \u2013 although less so his opinion of Islam &#8211; and his sniping at people like Mother Teresa and Jerry Falwell was inexcusable. Even though Blakeney excoriates this with considerable relish, it is but a sidebar to Hitchens&#8217; true crimes: what Joshua Blakeney really can\u2019t stomach \u00a0is that Christopher Hitchens <em>\u201cmorphed from a \u201cTrotskyite\u201d into a Bush-supporting neoconservative\u201d. <\/em>And he supports Israel<em>. <\/em>Bring out the garlic and holy water.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, Christopher Hitchens is one of the most engrossing and bright political and social commentators of our time; agree with him or not, his cancer is a cause for sadness not rejoicing and, if it finally kills him, the world will be a less interesting place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of disgusting bile. The Canadian Charger is an \u201calternative\u201d (alternative to sane, I presume) magazine that, according to the professor of communication studies, University of Windsor is one of the best examples of \u201calternative\u201d &#8211; I\u2019m going to add that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-canadian-discharger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[548,2085],"class_list":["post-9618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","tag-canadian-charger","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}