[lbo-talk] Hitchens

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 7 09:35:39 PDT 2004


paul childs wrote:


>My guess too is that it's some lingering English class based
>resentment about Clinton carrying on with someone 'beneath' his
>office, or Monica for daring to snog someone 'above' her station.

But Hitch is of middle-class origins, so some of that class-based resentment would be of the arriviste variety, an anxiety about falling.

Doug



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