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Apart from Hitchens' recklessly sloppy error in lumping Christians
with Islamofascists and his implied indictment of Christians across
the board, to say nothing of his indictment of those of other
religions, I was struck by the irony of his viciousness, meanness and
hatefulness in attacking Falwell essentially for being vicious, mean
and hateful.

Many liberals, like Hitchens, rail against "hate" as the worst
imaginable sin, yet exude a magnitude of hatred that the conservatives
they condemn as hateful couldn't begin to possess. Hitchens refused to
back down from his excoriation of Falwell on the very day of his
death, saying, "I don't care whether his family's feelings are hurt or
not. But if they are, they can take comfort from the extraordinary
piety and stupidity, and generally speaking, uniformity of the
coverage of the man's death."

Even more revolting was Hitchens' response to CNN's Anderson Cooper's
question of whether he believed in heaven and whether "you think Jerry
Falwell is in it." Hitchens said he did not believe in it, but "I
think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to."

It would take an extraordinarily warped perspective for someone as
mean-spirited as Christopher Hitchens to believe he is entitled to
righteous indignation at those -- like Christians or conservatives --
he presumably believes to be mean-spirited.

But Hitchens will get a pass for his abominable behavior from the
liberal media because he is a liberal -- notwithstanding his heresy on
the war -- and liberals are not to be condemned for their hatred
because the objects of their hatred deserve to be hated.