The more I think about this the more it seems that this loss to genuine journalism and critique-as-art is just staggering. Hitch hated totalitarianism in every form it took, from the left and the right and from the religious. He wasn't scared of anything or anyone. And he never hesitated in calling out a punk or a scumbag, ranging from the Clintons to Jerry Falwell to Henry Kissinger to Ralph Reed to Sean Hannity to Mother Teresa, when they so clearly deserved it.
Some of his very best:
And yes, Mother Teresa WAS a scumbag:
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"[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?" - Hitch, in a rant called Mommie Dearest.
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RIP
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