http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20716FC3E550C7A8DDDA80894DB404482 January 19, 2003, Sunday Memo to the Democrats: Quit Being Losers! By Tucker Carlson (NYT)
"This fall, for the second time in a row, the Democratic Party lost an election it should have won. Democrats offered no rationale for why they should be running the country and no vision for how they would run it. The party got the drubbing it deserved. I enjoyed watching." ------ He's a bow-tied weenie, but he did honestly report that incident where governor Bush mocked the poor fundamentalist Karla Fay Tucker who was on Texas's death row. Bush said something like "Please don't kill me" in a high-pitched woman's voice. Hitch reported Carlson reporting this.
Some leftist have more fun. What's funny about the heresy-hunters complaing about Hitchens is that it's sort of like the fussy-duddies complaining about Hunter Thompson, who was and is a libertarian leftist of a kind. In this month's Vanity Fair, Hitchens writes about alcohol:
"I remember going to Aspen about a decade ago to cover the Bush-Thatcher summit that coincided with the invasion of Kuwait. The town sponsored a reception for the press, held at the top of the ski lift on the summit of a perfectly nice mountain. When we got up there, pointlessly beautiful and white-toothed girls offered drinks. I thought a gin-and-tonic would meet the case nicely. "Sorry, sir," I was told with faultless politeness, "but that would be inappropriate." When I queried this, I was told that gin-and-tonic was much more potent at that high altitude. "In that case I'll have a double," I said flippantly, and was rewarded by a millimetric contraction of the flawless but phony smile. So I got back onto the ski lift and went down to spend the evening at Hunter Thompson's place in Woody Creek, where we ended up doing some pretty accurate target practice with high-velocity rifles. I think I had a better time than those who stayed correct - and what's more, they can't take that evening from me, try as they may."