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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I was reading the Hitchens piece earlier today. I've loved Hitchens from the first time I read him, even though I've always adored Mother Teresa, and worked with her Missionaries of Charity while I was in college. Does anyone have any idea whether the comment is true in his piece about Michael Moore making a statement that if those people on the hijacked airplanes had been black, the outcome would have been different? Do you think a diet company will pick up Michael Moore and try to turn him into the next Anna Nicole/Monia Lewinsky/Fergie spokesperson?

Let me start by saying that I like Hitchens because he writes a lot and says nothing (the Moore piece was an aberration - it was actually pretty direct and economical). And I hate Mother Theresa for obvious reasons, totally unrelated to her prose. But I don't understand your position, which seems to imply that one cannot like both Hitchens and Mother Theresa at the same time. I see no diamterically opposed positions in their mission statements or c.v.s Why can't you like both?