Christopher Hitchens and Slate editors play dumb
May 18, 2009 2:53 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Determined to be the last person to dissect in detail on the week-old (zzzz) story of Wanda Sykes' appearance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner nine days ago, Hitchens, in a very boring dispatch, explains why neither she, nor president Obama, were funny during the roast.
The rather astonishing part though, is that Hitchens has already famously commented on Sykes' Corespondents performance, yet both he and his Slate editors play dumb and act like it never happened. Both Hitchens and the Slate editors pretend Hitchens, just hours after the performance, didn't tell the New York Observer that "the black dyke [Sykes] got it wrong."
Does Hitchens have no memory of saying it? We don't know, simply becuase he never even acknowledges the slur in his column and Slate editors let him pretend it never happened, even though he's writing about Wanda Sykes.
BTW, Hitchens complains that Sykes was too mean to Rush Limbaugh. Ironic, don't you think?
-"You may want to look into if Hitchens was the person who provided the connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda after he was water boarded, we all know he loves the Kurds more than he loves the Bourb"
Not funny but the best I could come up with.
It's called a blackout. Happens all the time to really heavy drinkers.