Drink-sodden ex trotskyite Hitchens comes up with snappy comeback.

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Hitchens has come out with a witty comeback for Galloway, but the pathetic shit had to go home and think about it for three days, apparently.

For those who didn't see the item last week, when Galloway testified before Coleman's committee, he ran into Hitchens in the hall; Hitchens asked him a question, and Galloway said to him "your nothing but a drink-sodden ex-trotskyite popinjay." According to reports, Hitchens couldn't respond at all, was reduced tom inarticulate gasping, totally emasculated and eviscerated.

Well, now, a week later, Hitchens has come up with a reply, published in the British magazine the Weekly Standard:

"Recently, British MP George Galloway appeared before the Senate to defend himself against corruption allegations stemming from the oil-for-food scandal. There he had a run-in with Christopher Hitchens and called him a "drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay." In turn, Hitchens lights into Galloway, describing him as "Prolier than thou, and ostentatiously radical, but a bit too fond of the cigars and limos and always looking a bit odd in a suit that was slightly too expensive. By turns aggressive and unctuous, either at your feet or at your throat; a bit of a backslapper, nothing's too good for the working class: what the English call a 'wide boy.' " Although Galloway protests that he never dealt in oil, Hitchens points out, "Galloway is not supposed by anyone to have been an oil trader. He is asked, simply, to say what he knows about his chief fundraiser, nominee, and crony. And when asked this, he flatly declines to answer."

Way to go, Hitchens, what a quick wit, only took you a week to come up with a snappy put-down, not bad for a drink-sodden ex-trotskyite popinjay.

[GRLMGC]

1. ahahahahahahahahahaha

what a maroon. That's like when someone says something to you and you come up w/ something clever you never use it because it'll sound really stupid when you do.

[On the Road]

2. The Gloves are Off!

A popinjay?

That one word overshadows all of Hitchens's limp attempts at prose.

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3. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink"

And you know what? Snitchens' hands are probably shaking at this very moment, and he is probably having yet another drink.

[Coexist]

4. I'll bet he had his speechwriters up all night on that one.

he sure told him?!

[MindPilot]

5. Hitchens appears a bit too fond of the the semi-colon

but in the end has an epiphany of self-awareness: a full colon.

Hitchens is a pretentious prick; a Hunter S Thompson wannabe who doesn't realize an accent and a hangover doesn't automatically make one a writer.

[SmokingJacket]

6. Note how it's all about class.

The worst insult Hitchens could come up with is that Galloway is from a working class background.

That kind of British snobbery is sooooooo yesterday.

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7. "Prolier than thou," that was good.

But the class thing, is it because Hitchens is a snob, or because he is an ex-communist, an ideology centered around class distinctions ("the story of history is the story of class struggle" and all that)?

[ComerPerro]

8. Wow. And in a paragraph, no less. He must have a rapier wit

Someone zings a one-liner off him, and what does he do? He goes home and after a week produces an uninteresting paragraph.

Good comeback!

:sarcasm:

[Arugula Latte]

9. Wonder what will do in Chrissy Boy first?

The drink or the smokes?

Liver or lungs?

Cirrhosis or cancer?

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10. Oh yeah, says Hitchens

"Well, I myself, personally, think you are full of prime Grade-A baloney, Mr. Galloway."

Devastating comeback there, Mr. Hitchens. A week late, incredibly lame, and of course not to your target's face, as his insult to you was delivered.

Have another drink. Or ten. Hell, finish the bottle and ruminate further on what you coulda, woulda, shoulda.

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11. Let's see if the drink-sodden popinjay...

...even remembers writing this a week from now.