Hitch on Hardball

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>
>In a sense, I think Hitchens has always been a right-winger,
>but has just been slow about coming to himself.  The curious
>thing, if any, is that it has taken him so long.  There are
>lots of people like that, and I don't understand the big
>deal that is made about them.

And thus proves Hitch's point-- how is he a rightwinger?  Haven't heard him
renounce a dime of social democratic values, even if he has become skeptical
of what socialism would be at this point.  On foreign policy, he still
denounces the corporate intentions of Bush, even if he thinks the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq are justified for the democratic results.

Was Hitchens pushed or did he jump from the Nation?  It was obviously a case
of both, as the immediate excommunication he suffered shows.

-- Nathan Newman