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To: E who wrote (12260)	4/23/2001 11:57:35 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Ah, yes, Hitchins. A Vanity Fair columnist is certainly well qualified in this area. I notice he raises a lot of innuendos, but precious few facts. He says that her money has been going to build convents "somewhere in Kenya," but doesn't suggest that he has ever tried to visit one, or find one. (Nor does that suggest that she has millions in the bank.) Hitchins, of course, revels in trying to destroy people of some public interest. Kissinger, for example. guardianunlimited.co.uk. Clinton. (Well, maybe he had a point there.) salon.com. He claims that "William Jefferson Clinton (who never needed to inhale, by the way, because he baked his marijuana into cakes and cookies) ..." I have never heard or read this anywhere else, and there were enough people after Clinton that one would think if this were verifiable it would have been all over the place. Is it accurate, or did Hitchins make it up? Is he the sort of writer who makes it up as he goes along? pipes.org Hitchins admits to being a dedicated Marxist. www-hoover.stanford.edu Of course, Marxism is antithetical to Christianity, so it's hardly surprising that he would revel in trying to tear down a Catholic idol. One commentator actually calls it "hatred," and writes "When I read about the bishop and Father Barham, I kept thinking of Christopher Hitchins' hatred for the late Mother Teresa. Of course part of the reason Hitchins disliked Teresa was that she sucked up to dictators (Baby Doc Duvalier) and thieves (Charles Keating) as long as they contributed to her cause, but I think the main reason for Hitchins' animosity is that Teresa believed it was more important for the poor to abstain from practicing contraception or abortion than for them to live comfortably in the material. Such a position is hard for an atheist like Hitchins, or me for that matter, to understand. I don't think a supposed Christian like the bishop would have understood such a stance, at least not viscerally. He would be familiar with the words, but would look askance at someone who actually believed that the Kingdom of Heaven was more important than life here on earth." trollope.org Frankly, when you put Hitchins up against the Nobel Peace Prize committee, I'll go with the Nobels. Hitchins's honesty, objectivity, and reportorial ethics are, let's be kind, questionable. Maybe you have other, objective analysts who have more trustworthy information?

To: E who wrote (12260)	4/24/2001 12:07:43 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

P.S. However, one person Hitchins was not interested in vilifing was David Irving, who never (according to Hitchins) called the Holocaust a hoax, and is a great historian. A strange choice of bedfellows -- vilifying Mother Teresa but praising David Irving

To: E who wrote (12260)	4/24/2001 12:15:01 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I had not realized how many accolades Mother T had received. Including Homorary U.S. Citizenship in 1996. Guess she even fooled Bill Clinton. Or maybe Clinton had special sympathy for another victim of Hitchins' smear campaigns. Anyhow, here are some public recognitions you have to explain away: Mother Teresa has received many awards including: 1962 Magsaysay Foundation Award. 1971 Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. Kennedy International Humanitarian Award. 1973 The first Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. 1975 The first Albert Schweitzer International Peace Prize. 1977 Honorary Doctorate from Cambridge University. 1978 Honorary Order of the British Empire. 1979 The Nobel Peace Prize. 1983 Honorary Order of Merit. Mountbatten and World Humanities Award. 1996 Honorary US citizenship. Thats a lot of people to fool. But apparently in your mind Hitchins alone is right and all of them are wrong.