Mr Hitchens takes up the aforementioned implement, and gives it a good
couple of swings:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5641&R=C5592CD38
I should qualify what may be taken to be my implicit endorsement of
this with the following caveats:
i) Hitchens is a twit.
ii) McCarthyite slander is still McCarthyite slander even if the
victim is someone one finds repellent.
iii) My enjoyment of Galloway's performance remains undiminished, for
the reasons previously stated (once again: you can't stick it to
Rumsfeld too hard or too often for my liking).
I can't concur with Hitchens in getting worked up about Galloway's
having "spat full in the face of the Senate". I only wish he had been
spitting from above.
Dominic
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