Hitchens falls off bar stool

[Ted Winslow]

Doug wrote:
> 
> The concluding graf:
> 
>> I have no hesitation in describing this mentality, carefully and
>> without heat, as soft on crime and soft on fascism. No political
>> coalition is possible with such people and, I'm thankful to say, no
>> political coalition with them is now necessary. It no longer matters
>> what they think.
> 
> If it no longer matters, why has he written thousands of hostile words?
> 

The thousands of words demonstrate its enormous importance (to Hitchens).
The contempt is a way of denying this.  Perhaps it has something in common
with Lenin's contempt for "liberals" who refused to support the violence so
obviously justified by such an obviously monstrous evil.

Ted