Christopher Hitchens?

[stpalm]

I thought he was a leftist, but I was reading the PNAC site (scary!) and saw some BS from him about Iraq.

Whats the deal?

[MissMarple]

1. Too much whiskey, IMHO.

He tries to be an iconoclast, but he doesn't pull it off very well.

[Sannum]

2. He is a drunken right-winger.

Everytime he is on television, he has a glass of water as well as something a little stronger. He is a raging alcoholic with zero credibility.

[salvorhardin]

3. After 9-11 he had a nervous breakdown

Seriously, I don't know what happened but all of a sudden he turned hard right, denounced his ties to the left and resigned from The Nation.

[NoPasaran]

4. Left wing drunk who turned into a right wing drunk

[proud patriot]

5. Drunk ...is he still getting paid ?

I would be surprised

[OKNancy]

6. This fairly short article

sort of explains what happened to him. He is not a right-winger but he is a lefty-gone-bad.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=hitchens

[Warpy]

7. He's a drunk who's all over the map politically

He used to be right more often than wrong a couple of decades ago.

Alcohol's a mean drug.

[yankeedem]

8. Has a fixation on Clinton's penis

Which caused him to make a right turn about 5 years ago.

[BlueManDude]

9. He's a Zell Miller "liberal"

[peacetalksforall]

10. He is absolutely not a leftist! He rails against Dems, especially the

Clintons.

[theresistance]

11. I think he's always been a reich wing person

After he wrote a book slamming Henry Kissinger and his crimes people started to laud him as an anti-war type. He was embarrassed and spent enormous energy dispelling that myth.

By the way, his book: http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/h-titles/hitchens_kissinger.shtml