An excellent analysis! I always wondered if spewing Hitchens quotes in resonse to substantive questions was a helpful mode of argument/advancement. Invoking unrelated entertainers as a defense of Hitchens' (coterminous with/determinative of your own) position or the "inflated style" it's presented in is even less helpful.
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