The Hitchens-Beast on Freethought Radio the other week:
AG: Have you been doing some debates? I know that you were doing a lot, have you done some recent...
CH: [Interrupting] Oh yes, I mean I do one or two a month, at least.
AG: What's coming up?
CH: Um, I'm just trying to think what the next one is. I have a debate with Rabbi Wolpe, who's one of my favourite liberal, Jewish antagonists, that's in Boston coming up quite soon.
AG: OK, and is there a way for people to check, do you have a website?
CH: I wish, well, [snickers]... I don't really have a proper website, it's annoying. There's a website that monitors me that's run by people who don't like me. [DB and AG laughing] I think it's called Hitchens Watch [more laughing]. And there's another one, amazingly, that's run by people who do like me. I'm really bad at surfing these things. But if it's happening in your area, without being vain [sic], I think I can say that it will get publicized.
This is not the first time that The Fallen One has lashed out at this little ol' blog. At this point we're well within our rights to accuse Hitchens of being a "stalker," but then again, of course if we blurted out something like that the next thing we would know he'd have us all lined up in front of a Grand Jury for the remark (incidentally, NY Times Gilf Maureen Dowd christening Chris as "Snitchens" during the Blumenthal affair alone completely demolishes Hitch's lil' crypto-misogynist "Why Women Are Not Funny" thesis). Ah, the love that dare not speak it's name. It's truly hard to understate how pathologically narcissistic and egomaniacal our Preening One is to be occasionally following a blog like this. Although Hitchens Watch does boast a very elite fan base (so elite in fact that this site's audience is numbered in entire dozens of viewers), you'd be surprised by who actually follows this site from time to time, the very creme de la creme of the online crop.
Note this sneaky "I think it's called Hitchens Watch" he attempts to slip in there without anyone noticing it. Nice try Popinjay. Hitchens should stop being so fucking disingenuous and cease pretending that he doesn't actually know what the name of this website is, "I think." And how dare The Unspeakable One and his minions laugh at us like this, why the mere mention of Hitchens Watch's mighty name should send chills down the spine of our feathered Popinjay and his flock of parroting psittacines. I'm bloody outraged. Just for that, we're going to have to start doubling our Hitchens-Is-A-Drunk jokes. And I even take umbrage with this "run by people who don't like me" bit, as if this site is all about personal attacks and ad hominem. Poppycock from the Popinjay. To the contrary, one of the remarkable things about this blog, and something that we can verily pat ourselves on the back for here, is how clean and bloodless our hands are after having taken on someone as slimy (or "oily" as William Lane Craig described it) as the Hitch-monster. We've managed to skin a Hitch with nary a trace of genuine malice or ad hominem, but strictly on the merits. In fact, I'd even issue a challenge to you, dear readers: You have to name me an act, or statement made, by Hitchens Watch, that was seriously ad hominem or an outright mean-spirited personal attack against that drunk Chris Hitchens. There's a prize in it for you.
And it's rather amusing that CH goes out of his way to explicitly mention Hitchens Watch when his oldest and most devout fanboy website "Hitchens Web" has gotten far more hits than us (it posts the links for his Slate column, I don't know how we'd survive without it), or when there's "Hitch Bitch" (we're still in the process in putting together a frivolous lawsuit to shut it down for copyright infringement and/or plagiarism), his stillborn blog on the Daily Mirror, his derelict "Build Up That Wall" site (which does deserve props for being genuine enough fans to link here), or the new "Daily Hitchens," which looks like it was made by an autistic 12 year-old (another swooning, prepubescent male member of the Hitchens Fan Club toiling away in his mom's basement—Hitch must be so thrilled that this is now his average rank-and-file fan—and indispensably providing us with his vast archive of stale and already ubiquitous Hitchens videos from 2006).
Ouch, what a burn on Chris that arguably his most popular website is one allegedly "run by a nutter and a conspiracy theorist" as Harry's Place has taught us. What an embarrassment for Hitchens.
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