Christopher Hitchens: "Patrick Fitzgerald is the stupidest prosecutor in the history of the world…"

[Catherine Vincent]

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Hitchens On Valerie, Joe, and Patrick Fitzgerald
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 9:10 AM
From yesterday's interview with Christopher Hitchens:

HH: All right. Let’s get back to your favorite couple, power couple, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. I assume that you watched with rapt attention the Plame testimony?

CH: Couldn’t tear myself away.

HH: And what did you think of it?

CH: Well, I thought that it was really a terrible indictment of Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, because if anything she said was true, he’s the stupidest prosecutor in the history of the world…

HH: Yes.

CH: …which I don’t think her supporters generally believe. But in other words, if she says that she was a major undercover, cloak and dagger agent, then it’s really bizarre that he found that there had been no breach of the legislation that protects the identity of such agents. And he didn’t find that there’d been any breach of that already, I think, by the way, very restrictive and repressive act. So that’s that.

HH: Now what about…

CH: As to who sent her…did you notice there was quite a funny…sent him, rather, her lovely husband. Did you see a rather funny correction in the New York Times the other day?

HH: No, I didn’t.

CH: It was on the op-ed page an editorialist correction. They had said he’d been sent to Niger by the State Department, and the correction was, after all this time, only last week, they corrected, he was sent there by the CIA. Yes, we always knew that. That’s what the original allegation was, and they might as well have added, as was found by the Senate committee, that the person in the CIA who wanted to send him was his wife.

HH: Yup, although she denied that.

CH: So it was a slam dunk.

HH: She denied that, did she not?

CH: Yeah, well, we have the letter that she sent recommending him. I haven’t got it in front of me, but it’s very easy to find.

HH: Right.

CH: And recommended him particularly, I might add, on the grounds that he was great friends with the Minister of Mines of Niger, the very man, in other words, who he would have been, if he had been doing an investigation, which he wasn’t, having to investigate. So he gets sent there on the grounds that he’s friends of the person who he’s supposed to be suspecting. It’s extraordinary.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a2f0abaf-084f-40b7-836b-d5780928e5a5

[Bunny]

1. Well, he's a gin-soaked popinjay, so don't pay any attention to him.

It only encourages him.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Christopher Hitchens is the most vile drunkard in the history of the world.

What a piece of shit he is. He likes to beat up women too.

Have another Scotch and shut the hell up.

[Atman]

3. And Hitchens is the stupidest bloviator in the history of the world.

Tied with Ann Coulter, actually.

.

[Donnachaidh]

4. Hitchens is the most alcohol-demented, doughy ex_pat syncophant

in the WORLD.

Another alcohol-addled spew from Hitchens.

What.a.surprise. :sarcasm:

[Elidor]

5. Alcohol is a hell of a drug

A pickled mind is a terrible thing.

[rhiannon55]

6. Why does anyone listen to that old drunk?

Didn't he jump the shark years ago?

[Marnieworld]

7. Fitzgerald didn't prosecute the leak because they obstructed Justice

It has been said again and again but he must have missed it due to the loud clinking of ice in his glass.

:grr:

[tridim]

8. Actually that's hardly ever said, at least on the MSM

Very few people understand that Libby's lies still stand and in effect block further investigation of Cheney and others since he's the primary witness.

[Kagemusha]

9. And it's a 'repressive act' meaning outing agents shouldn't be a crime

like ever.

Good to know, Mr. Hitchens.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

10. Hitchens is a boob.

He needs to go back to his trailor and have a drink.

[wildbilln864]

11. CH is a piece of shit IMHO!

I don't know why anyone even pays a bit of attention to him. We just let these corporate owned news outlets shove whoever down our throats and here we are now supposed to comment on him? Fuck that puto!

[Ganja Ninja]

12. How early in the day does Hitchens start drinking?

:beer:

[Ikonoklast]

34. There is no 'early in the day' for him

He just never stops drinking.

Most abused drug on the planet, and Hitchens is the poster boy.

'Wet-brain', I think is the term.

[Mister Ed]

13. "he found that there had been no breach of the legislation ". What a lie.

Fitzgerald didn't find that "there had been no breach of the legislation that protects the identity of such agents". He found that he couldn't get to the bottom of that question due to deliberate perjury and obstruction of justice on the part of some administration officials.

To Hitchens, apparently, a successful, criminal attempt to thwart an investigation means that the crime being investigated never occurred.

[Missy Vixen]

14. If Christopher Hitchens told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside and take a look

Then again, I'm sure he'd be unable to sober up long enough to wrap his brain around any facts at all.

What a pathetic excuse for a "journalist".

Julie

[jimshoes]

15. Why is he here in the USA?

Did they throw him out of the UK? Have another drink Chris Hickup.

[KiraBS]

31. I can only hope...

No we think he is a wanker here too....He doesn't get too much attention here, he is an arrogant, self-obsessed, drunk that is way to pleased with himself.

[Catherine Vincent]

35. Welcome to DU, Kira!

:hi:

[madrchsod]

16. it`s townhall- that`s all that needs to be said

[ljm2002]

17. Christopher, Christopher...

...the reason that Mr. Fitzgerald could not find the breach of law regarding leaking Ms. Plame's identity was that Libby lied to obstruct the investigation.

But of course Hitchens is still working so hard at being a "contrarian" that he has lost any actual judgment about the affairs of the day. He thinks that by doing this he shows himself to be smarter than the average bear. He thinks he is emulating George Orwell, his idol. Only, Orwell would be spinning in his grave if he knew how strongly the current junta has implemented the ideas from his novel 1984.

[ms liberty]

18. so sayeth the mediocre talent of a drunken nincompoop...n/t

[devilgrrl]

19. What does that fucking jerk stand for anymore?????

What's he stand for?

[Batgirl]

20. Hitchens has become the Dennis Miller of punditry

He used to be talented, at least I used to think he was a gifted writer.

Many years ago he wrote an unforgettable anti-death penalty piece that ran in Vanity Fair I believe. For that alone I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt even after he made the career switch to seemingly become a full-time ass kisser of G. Bush. It's been a long time though since he could reasonably be considered misguided-but-sincere.

For a while I thought his continued support of the Bushies was due to painful rationalization and denial that he backed the wrong horse. Now it appears his brain just isn't very sharp any more.

[louis-t]

21. "We have the letter.."

"..But I haven't got it on me." Chris, you left it in your spaceship. The pink elephant is probably sitting on it.

[Swede]

22. Chris is a ginsoaked poppinjay in badly need of a drink.

I heard that somewhere.

[ourbluenation]

23. there's no such word as "stupidest"...as far as I know. Making him stupid.

should have said "most stupid"

[frankenforpres]

37. Stupidest

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=stupidest

[Major Hogwash]

24. Does Christopher Hitchens intend to write a book about George Tenet now?

You know, he used to write these wonderful expose books that sold like hot cakes back in the early 90's.

Do you think he'll go on Bill Maher's program to promote it later?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. Dick Cheney must have bitten Chris Hitchens on Halloween years ago and turned him

Now, he lives in a backwards world where he damns all that is good and clean and revels in everything that is wicked and soiled: darkness and cancer are our friends; sunlight, green meadows, and puppy dogs are the enemy.

[librechik]

26. Hitchens is an inflated nobody.

he is so wrong so much of the time (with the possible exception of the Kissinger thing, an obvious aberration)

Nobody listens to you, Hitchens. Nor should they.

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Love the adjectives for Hitchens:

Jerk
drunken nincompoop
pathetic
drunkard
ass-kisser
gin-soaked poppinjay (twice)
a nobody
piece of shit
stupidest bloviator
alcohol-demented
doughy
pickled mind
boob

and let me add... FUCKING MORON

:)

[LSK]

28. lets hope Bill Maher can avoid having him on his show this year

[sakabatou]

29. And we should believe this person?

Pff...

[dogday]

30. Christopher Hitchens Is Always Bitchin

about some weird ass shit... Pay no attention to the drunk in the Englishman's Clothes....

[JNelson6563]

32. He's pathetic

I've canceled subscriptions to mags who regularly featured him. Ugh.

Julie

[wicket]

33. "Christopher Hitchins is the drunkest "columnist" in the history of the world!" -wicket

:rofl:

[Ilsa]

36. CH: another douchebag who took her letter out of context. nt

[NastyRiffraff]

38. Good God. Is this old sot still around?

Who listens to him, besides Hugh Hewitt? His day is long since over.