I can't wait to read the comments made by those who disagree with or hate Hitch.
I see them as being highly hilarious and hyperbolic. I love unintended comedy.
I also happen to enjoy Hitchens' outlook on things. I don't agree with everything he says, but he does cause those listening to engage their minds.
I also think his whole persona is great I love and laugh about it.
I highly recommend his "Letters to a Young Contrarian" loosely his version of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"
I also like that Hitchens has a great depth of knowledge on any number of subjects.
If you don't like him, no problem.
There are many things in life that aren't meant for everyone to enjoy.
Except For Led Zeppelin...

I used to like Hitch. He always had something pithy to say and was a fun read. But lately it's all me, me, me. Too tiresome now. Bye Hitch.

Hitchens is truly disgusting. Not because of his anti-religious position, but because of his pro-mass-murder position, his complete indifference for human decency and suffering.

I remember him pushing really hard for Bush 8 years ago, defending every murderous decision. And strangely enough he still gets unlimited airtime by the hosts ranging from Hannity to Bill Maher.

Has Hitchens been to Iraq? He should go to see what his cheerleading of the war has accomplished there. Mostly, death and destruction.

Christopher Hitchens is now and always has been a thoroughly uncivil, breath-takingly arrogant polemist. I didn't like him any better when he was being unpleasant on behalf of leftist positions than I do now that he has become a Bush policy apologist. I simply don't waste my time reading or listening to him now. Ugly is ugly, whether it is Bill O"Reilly ignorant ugly or Hitchens British-accented arrogant reactionary ugly.

Christopher Hitchens is the only reason that I subscribe to Vanity Fair magazine.

Could he be an equal opertunity insulter?

The couch potato Hitchens, called overworked Mother Terressa , one crazy nun...and much more, and made his millions at the expense of his crazy nun !

My favorite Hitch-ism, from before he drank the GWOT KoolAid, "[George Bush]'s eyes are so close together he could get by with a monocle."

You forgot to mention his opening remarks to Joe Scarborough when he was asked: "Christopher! What do you think of Hillary's big win last night?" He replied something like:

"When I think of the Clintons, I'm reminded of zombies... the living dead..." (the few seconds of silence it took Scarborough to react were delicious.)

I thought he offered some useful critisism for Obama (without slapping him around too much) and I was especially suprised to hear what he had to say about the recent death of William F. Buckley. With only a short list of some of Buckley's more disgracefull ideas, he summed up the man and his affection for him quite nicely.

He seems to be taking himself a lot less serious, lately. Or, maybe he was dialing it back, knowing there couldn't possibly be enough air waves in the stratosphere to project both his own and Joe's personae.

I'm finding it difficult to hate Hitch even mildly, of late.

Obama/Webb '08

Hitchens has become a tool of the right and reactionaries. I think he misses the king and monarchy he left behind in England and wants Bush to have ultimate power. He lambasted the first Gulf war when it was justified and tirelesssly championed the second when it was not. Who changed in the interim? Not Saddam. Hitchens was likely predisposed toward the second Bush because he rules as a stongman. We do not have to be uncomfortable then with all this messy democracy. Hitchens during one debate was even a W. Bush apologist for his reaction to Hurricane Katrina. Given Hitchen's stance on Bush's war in Iraq and how it was justified, and his defense of Bush for his Katrina failures, I can not believe or care about a word that comes out of Hitchen's mouth.

This is a good laugh. The defenders of Hitchens here are using his ability to form language into sentences and paragraphs into book form. Well, there are thousands of writers who are better and funnier. My wife is one of the most erudite people that I have ever met; she's brilliant. The difference between she and Hitchens is less in language skills than in the fact that she's not an asshole.

So they DO read my letters... I was wondering. 5 a day for several months....

He's so harmless, and he's hilarious. I've seen him give an interview hungover, and he still out argues his opponents.

Why take him so seriously? He's just a bitter, very amusing athiest.

Hitch is absolutely brilliant, and he is absolutely horrible.

No man that smart can be that stupid.

I am embarassed to admit I was once a huge fan of Hitch.

Now I think he's just spoiling for a fight with anyone and everyone. His candidate is out of the race now -- Giuliani -- so I suppose he's for McCain now.

Zombies? Did he say the Clintons made him think of zombies? But he's all for Giuliani being POTUS? I just don't get him any more.