Gawker rewrites that Page Six item
god-that-failed-249558.php> Christopher Hitchens: The God That Failed THEY don’t call him Christopher “Comical British Alcoholic” Hitchens = for nothing. The warmonger, whose attempt to link his pro-conflict = positions with the work of George Orwell offended the sensibilities = of anyone who has ever read George Orwell, is at it again. “Hitch Is = Not Great: How Everything In My Body Is Filled With Poison, = Particularly My Liver” hits bookstores next month. The jeremiad, = reports The Post’s Kyle Smith, is a merciless attack on everything = Hitchens holds dear=97dryly called “absolutely fucking right” by its = editor, Jonathan Karp, who is making it the second title in his new = imprint, 12, because that’s how many vodkas he drank before deciding = to publish Hitchens. “I have retarded the development of civilization,” writes Hitchens; = he goes on to call himself “a self-centered fantasist and an Scotch- = centered ignoramus” and “a washed-up former Trotskyite who decided he = wanted to be on the winning side for once and wound up advocating the = biggest disaster in the history of U.S. foreign policy.” But the = Hitch is just getting warmed up. yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, = failure and incompetence.” with their endless obfuscations about yellowcake and their corrupt = promise of a peaceful Middle East in the life to come.” and probably justifiable insecurity . . . not much more than a rather = obvious and ill-arranged set of self-rationalizations, there is = nothing - absolutely nothing - that can even begin to justify such = arrogance.” stupidity.” intelligence meant that “hundreds of thousands of people have been = maimed and wounded because his advice has been followed.” lies than a two minute conversation with Ari Fleischer.” convenient!” given to “genocidal incitements.” Also “ready for another round, on = someone’s expense account.” =97balk