Hitch on Hardball

[Peter K.]

>Yeah, that's one of the sad things about Hitch's turn - he doesn't
>really quote anyone, he just lazily relies on the assumptions of his
>new audience that the left, such as it is, is pro-OBL.
>
>By the way, someone told me that Louis Lapham pretty much said
>outright that Ashcroft is a bigger danger than bin Laden, yet he
>continues to write for Harper's. No one in The Nation ever said any
>such thing. Harper's pays better and has more mainstream cred, though.
>
>Doug

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/10152002

This past Tuesday Hitchens appeared on Brian Lehrer's
WNYC show and seemed to say the reason he quit
was the letters the Nation published on the anniversary
of 9/11. So Hitchens specifically references some left
idiocy. It was more the audience than the magazine.
IMHO, if you were against regime change in Afghanistan
you were "objectively" pro-bin Laden.

Peter