Christopher Hitchens from left charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right

[Brad DeLong]

>Speaking of which, Hitchens could stand taking a
>little bit more care in excoriating the grievance
>mongers and writing things like "the tendency of black
>and Jewish Floridians to be first to complain that
>they were cheated has been noted, to say the least".
>It's bloody difficult to work out what he means, at
>least one interpretation is profoundly nasty and the
>context is less than encouraging.

Is there any interpretation that is *not* profoundly nasty and deeply 
discouraging?

Brad DeLong