{"id":2496,"date":"2003-06-10T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T03:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/mr-hitchens\/"},"modified":"2003-06-10T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T03:40:40","slug":"mr-hitchens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/mr-hitchens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Hitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"FT.com \/ Arts &#038; Weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com\/StoryFT\/FullStory&#038;c=StoryFT&#038;cid=1054416440492&#038;p=1012571727132\">Financial Times<\/a> reports on a lit fest in Wales attended by Mr. Hitchens:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the debate a few hours earlier, he lost his temper when someone asked about country band the Dixie Chicks and the flak they copped for criticising George W. Bush&#8217;s Iraq policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each day they dig up dead bodies in personal death camps run by a Caligula dictator,&#8221; Hitchens shouted, &#8220;and I&#8217;m being asked to worry about these fucking fat slags &#8211; do me a favour!&#8221; The debate broke up soon after.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess we know what he thinks about the Dixie Chicks and the lying-about-WMD-fanatics.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenlayne.com\/blogarchives\/week_2003_06_08.html#003417\">Mr. Layne<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times reports on a lit fest in Wales attended by Mr. Hitchens: At the debate a few hours earlier, he lost his temper when someone asked about country band the Dixie Chicks and the flak they copped for criticising George W. Bush&#8217;s Iraq policy. &#8220;Each day they dig up dead bodies in personal death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/mr-hitchens-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Hitchens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}