Blessed be the luvvies

by Will, 26 May 2008

Good to see esteemed comrade Hitchens is managing quite nicely to piss off all the people who should be pissed off (and on) while he is at the Hay Festival.

(Apparently he has been a bully).

Comments

  1. Mustafa

    Monday 26 May 2008 at 17:29

    The poor dears, how terrible for them. To be criticised for asking a stupid question, and for propagating the ridiculous pseudo-liberal belief that religion is a race. Maddy Bunting will be crying into her tea once again.

    Hitch has more patience than I would have. From what I can see of the pretentious types at the Hay festival I think I’d end up throttling most of them.

  2. dirigible

    Monday 26 May 2008 at 20:37

    From the Graun comments: Hitchens didn’t bully the woman. She tried to have her cake and eat it. Accusing him of racism without coming out and saying it. I was one of the young people who wasn’t angered by his comments. Maybe I was sat in a different part of the tent to you.

    There is hope for the future…

  3. Will

    Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 16:48

    Relatedly - (Hitchenswise and stuff) here is quite an interesting read by some sort of repentant neo-con type from The National Interest (he is a senior editor at it).

    http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/Spring-2008/full-breaking-ranks.html

  4. Flea

    Wednesday 28 May 2008 at 20:04

    Hitch is the subject of a sly, cowardly charge of racism and for defending himself he is called a bully.