Chris slithered onto the set of Real Time with Bill Maher yesterday to plug his new autohagiography, "Hitch-22," though, fortunately, he didn't actually have a chance to talk about it:
With the reputation of the Catholic Church in free fall over revelations that Ratzinger was in fact well aware of the activities of pederasts in his archdiocese at the time, Hitch has a pretty easy time here shooting fish in a barrel, though he does claim that the last time that he was on Maher's show he allegedly somehow warned us all about this. I checked his last appearance, he was too busy in that battle of wits against Mos Def to get into the sins of the Catholic Church, so I don't know what the bloody hell Hitchens is yammering on about here. Perhaps he's referring to a previous appearance.
Not much to quarrel with Hitchens about concerning his commentary on this latest scandal of the Vatican's, and he even concedes that having US troops in Germany and Japan is unnecessary and that America has far too many nuclear weapons, but not to worry, he does lurch to Decency by the end of the interview, cheering on the latest act of US aggression against Somalia.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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