[lbo-talk] My Letter To CH

[// ravi]

On Dec 19, 2011, at 2:56 PM, // ravi wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote (quoted):
>> "There’s one other aspect to the adulation of Hitchens that’s quite revealing. There seems to be this sense that his excellent facility with prose excuses his sins."
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> “One of us” syndrome?
> 

Grace (on FB) pointed to Galloway’s comments on Hitchens:

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2011/12/lets-just-hope-god-is-merciful-chris.html


>From which:


> Ultimately, the real reason for the ­tear-stained eulogies from the British media commentariat for the late Mr Hitchens is that, by and large, the writers and editors are weeping for themselves.
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> They share his guilt over the Iraq War and deep inside they know it.
> 
> But all the salty tears in the world will not out that damned spot. The next reason is class.
> 
> Hitchens was a toff, a Lord. And the English-speaking world, it seems, still likes to love a Lord.

	—ravi