I know there’s a lot of competition, but this passage, from an article by Christopher Hitchens attacking Barack Obama, might just qualify as the most arrogant utterance of the year (bolds mine):
Look at the accepted choice of words for the ravings of Jeremiah Wright: controversial, incendiary, inflammatory. These are adjectives that might have been—and were—applied to many eloquent speakers of the early civil rights movement. (In the Washington Post, for Good Friday last, the liberal Catholic apologist E.J. Dionne lamely attempted to stretch this very comparison.) But is it “inflammatory” to say that AIDS and drugs are wrecking the black community because the white power structure wishes it? No. Nor is it “controversial.” It is wicked and stupid and false to say such a thing.
Via Andrew Sullivan.
Kathy
Chief
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