the smartest fascist?

[Peter K.]

>When it was his turn in line, someone had something to
>say about Henry Kissinger that was a bit of
>one-upmaniship concerning the history of just how bad
>Kissinger was.  Sitting there more increasingly
>aghast, I watched Hitchens get in a lather because
>this guy presumed to offer some negative take on HK
>that wasn't in CH's path.  It ended with CH saying
>something like, "I don't respond to fascists."  The
>questioner, equally aghast, immediately exclaimed,
>"Fascist?  I'm a pacifist!"
>
>It was a laughably bunk use of the term.
>
>Alec

I don't remember that. Maybe I was in the restroom relieving myself
at the time. I do remember a notorious mentally ill black "questioner"
going on about the Jews, etc. and how Hitchens finally cut him off by
saying he wouldn't respond.

I also remember a somewhat fawning Tom Frank sitting across from
Hitchens during dinner that night trying to engage an uninterested
Hitch in conversation.

Peter