Hitch parties down with Wolfie
denounces-beltway-party-invites-paul-wolfowitz-to-his-house-254462.php> Christopher Hitchens Denounces Beltway Party, Invites Paul Wolfowitz = To His House Not everyone=97actually, it sounds more like not anyone=97enjoyed this = weekend’s White House Correspondent’s Association dinner. But = Christopher Hitchens was particularly displeased. As David Carr = notes, Hitch cut out early, declaring that: “The event was disgraceful, so lame and mediocre that it is beyond = parody,” he said later. “It is impossible to decide which is more = offensive: the president fawning over the press or the press fawning = over the president. It expresses everything that the public means = when they talk about inside-the-Beltway and access journalism.” Hitchens then returned to the comfort of his home, where he mingled = with guests such as presidential aspirant Fred Thompson, “British = Ambassador David Manning and his novelist wife Lady Manning; NBC’s = Andrea Mitchell; Council on Foreign Relations Chief Richard Haass; = embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz; and a slew of bold- = faced names from the world of journalism.” Also a slew of Timesfolk = (Carr, Dean Baquet, Richard Berke, Adam Nagourney) and Supreme Court = Justice Antonin Scalia. But we’re sure there was no access, inside- = the-Beltwayism, or fawning. =97balk