The Associated Press reports the following:
N E W Y O R K, Sept. 26 – Christopher Hitchens, longtime conservative columnist for The Nation, is leaving the liberal weekly publication.
Huh? Just because a man backs a war against Islamo-fascism and found president Clinton to be one of the most shameful liars and hypocrites in American history, he’s a conservative? Hitch’s liberal credentials are so voluminous, his hostility to Toryism so profound, his independence so tenaciously guarded that this hardly bears refutation. But it does cast light on the morons who now work as journalists for the A.P. (And, by the way, the notion that the Nation is liberal is also dumb. It’s a leftist rag, devoted to undermining liberal institutions, free trade, free speech on campus, a defense of the free West against Islamism, and still has whiffs of regret for the passing of the Soviet Union. Liberal? Get a grip. Hitch has more liberalism in his forelock than the Nation has in its entirety.)
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