Christopher Hitchens from left charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right

[Daniel Davies]

not obvious in context whether it had been noted by
Hitchens himself, or whether it had been (wrongly)
noted by unspecified people who were looking for
excuses to note bad things about blacks 'n' Jews.  To
be fair.

dd

--- Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >
>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

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