Ever notice how easy it is for most to get along with a swizzle of British English, makeshift as it may be? Yanks always say something like “Yes, dahling…” &tc. when being affectatious about British accents. Quite funny to most Brits. But in a year or two it usually happens.

But nooooo no no, Mr. Hitchens castles queenside to the US, prating about like he is cause-celebre ipsa loquitur, at the drop of a whiskey glass about to share his pretentious Shakepeareanisms-lite, as a blushing priest might concatenate say, salvation and masturbation. And yes, America, he brought the accent with him, and kept it! To listen to priestly language is to be enlightened:Audiamus ergo sumus.

There is tradition on his side, yessirree… And neveryoumindyank, Mr. Hitchens’ thrashing at the hands of Mr. G. alloway, Bethnal Green M.P. in a wee bonnie debate a whilst back.

And how many times must Mr. Hitchens’ same tired dish of spotted dick neocon-Trotskyism can be served again?

Sadly we have this spectacle, this homonculus of a philosopher - this burned out silverbelly of a Brit playing the tweeds like a feeble Cotswold chambermaid.

But at least while the party is not over, it smells pretty good to the yanks’ press. Just don’t tell them that you know but he doesn’t know that you know and you’ll be fine.

-Chingis

Ever notice how easy it is for most to get along with a swizzle of British English, makeshift as it may be? Yanks always say something like “Yes, dahling…” &tc. when being affectatious about British accents. Quite funny to most Brits. But in a year or two it usually happens.

But nooooo no no, Mr. Hitchens castles queenside to the US, prating about like he is cause-celebre ipsa loquitur, at the drop of a whiskey glass about to share his pretentious Shakepeareanisms-lite, as a blushing priest might concatenate say, salvation and masturbation. And yes, America, he brought the accent with him, and kept it! To listen to priestly language is to be enlightened:Audiamus ergo sumus.

There is tradition on his side, yessirree… And neveryoumindyank, Mr. Hitchens’ thrashing at the hands of Mr. G. alloway, Bethnal Green M.P. in a wee bonnie debate a whilst back.

And how many times must Mr. Hitchens’ same tired dish of spotted dick neocon-Trotskyism can be served again?

Sadly we have this spectacle, this homonculus of a philosopher - this burned out silverbelly of a Brit playing the tweeds like a feeble Cotswold chambermaid.

But at least while the party is not over, it smells pretty good to the yanks’ press. Just don’t tell them that you know but he doesn’t know that you know and you’ll be fine.

-Chingis

In more detail, they believe in the uncompromising use of Western military power in all parts of the world in an attempt to uphold and promote Western values. When pressed, they emphasize that central to this project is freedom of expression. What does this mean? To the neoconservative intellectual, freedom of expression means writing a few pungent articles for the Observer (Cohen) or Vanity Fair (Hitchens), and being remunerated quite handsomely. This is their vision of the society worth defending. It is the vision of a glorified debating club that needs to be protected and promoted by a massive military machine.

In their zeal to promote their debating-club world-view, they spare no thought for those things in Western society that are absolutely worth defending. I have never heard mention of any of the following by a neoconservative intellectual: equality of the sexes, equality of opportunity, access to healthcare, immigration reform, climate change, the pensions gap, the credit crisis, the problem of balancing economic growth with societal wellbeing. One might as well be speaking another language (other than the language of that odd mental construct, the “anglosphere”). Moreover, in this interview, Hitchens seemed almost to perceive his ignorance of these all-important matters as a badge of honour. Without knowldege of these matters he cannot be a liberal. He is the Lyndon Johnson without the Great Society program.

Clearly then, the challange for the liberal hawk is to create something that is worth defending and promoting, and in this task the neoconservatives fail in the most miserable fashion.

If there is no God, then the best this guy could offer us is to erase himself. He uses too much carbon. If he would erase himself he would go from carbon sink to becoming a carbon donor and thereby fulfill his destiny and save the rest of us another 30 years of the pain and the carbon utilization. If he were made in the image and likeness of God, then I guess he would deserve to live, but otherwise would somebody please pull his plug?

Hey you big brained English Boo Hoo, the French figured all this out in the 18th century. Stick that in your Maker’s Mark and swizzle it.

Hitchens? In a word pretentious