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So Very Mean

Is the treatment that Shaha Riza has received the “nastiest character assassination” that Christopher Hitchens has seen in his lifetime?  He thinks so.  So, it’s nastier than the character assassination carried out against, to name a few, John Tower, Clarence Thomas, Pat Buchanan, Max Cleland, Jim Webb and Pim Fortuyn (the latter then being actually assassinated as a result)?  […]

Is the treatment that Shaha Riza has received the “nastiest character assassination” that Christopher Hitchens has seen in his lifetime?  He thinks so.  So, it’s nastier than the character assassination carried out against, to name a few, John Tower, Clarence Thomas, Pat Buchanan, Max Cleland, Jim Webb and Pim Fortuyn (the latter then being actually assassinated as a result)?  It is nastier than all of these (which involved various smears, including accusations of criminal conduct, cheap attacks against the person’s patriotism or frequent comparisons to Nazis) to suggest that the woman effectively got a pay raise as a result of being Wolfowitz’s woman?  Somehow I don’t think that’s worse.

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