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Originally Posted by peter12
Anyway, the man loved a soundbite, was eloquent in an argument, but displayed no rigor when it came to any kind of cohesion amongst his own arguments, or that of his opponents.
Look at his debate partners. Not a serious scholar among them. He preferred the flim-flam artists, the backwoods preachers, the fools...
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Hitchens was debating against the influential, not the lettered.
I agree he wasn't particularly cohesive, though I also agree with blankall that that's not inherently desirable.