[lbo-talk] Galloway and Hitchens

[Carl Remick]

>From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
>
>Dennis: "And I love how he handled Hitchens before the hearing. Poor Hitch, 
>beaten up
>verbally by, in his words, a "real thug." "
>
>Though Hitchens' own write up was relatively generous to Galloway:
>
>http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/archive/tm_objectid=15528737%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

Yes, I confess I choked up over Hitchens' munificent magnanimity.  CH was 
particularly moving in this comment:   "... on spotting your own 
correspondent, Mr Galloway shouted that he was a 'drink- sodden 
ex-Trotskyist popinjay and useful idiot', some of which was unfair."  
Actually, while it may not be fair to categorize Hitchens as "useful," the 
rest of Galloway's description is accurate enough.

Carl