Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Place your bets now...

For Gerald Ford's death, will Slate go with an anti-obituary by Christopher Hitchens, master of the genre, or an over-the-top obit, like they ran for James Brown?

I'm guessing both... If you held a gun to my head and made me guess one, I'd take the anti-obit by Hitchens.

5 comments:

august said...

Let's just hope we don't get a Borat-esque flooding of the zone.

My bet says something stupid (Ford paved the way for terror). Kinsley says only marginally less studpid (Ford: more than just a klutz). Dickerson remembers his mother's first interaction with Ford, which provides insight into the Nixon pardon (which helped the country move on). Weisberg describes some straw man ("Ford solved the energy crisis") as the conventional wisdom, and then debunks it with what everybody else in the world would describe as the CW.

I'm going to go check my work now...

august said...

Rats!

Wrong again. Curse you, Timothy Noah!

JohnMcG said...

The Hitchens anti-obit is here!

Just wait for Kissinger...

I did enhoy the "CW" strongman, as that is a specialty.

august said...

Credit where credit is due: not as stupid as I thought.

LentenStuffe said...

John,

You called it alright. Not Bad!