>Give us a break! Besides Carrol Cox's perfectly valid points, Christopher
>Hitchens rubs our noses in his personal chumminess with everyone who's anyone
>in England, even as he slurs them with stereotypically British upper-crust
>snobbishness, while treating his readers as though we need him to interpret
>these specimens fully. It is this cartoon Brit of Hitchens's self-portrait who
>richly deserves the darts -- at least until I'm shown some grime under his
>nails.
Hitchens isn't upper crust at all - he's middle class, the son of a naval officer. His colleague Cockburn is the real thing, crust-wise.
Doug