Some liberals consider Hitchens a turncoat because of his support for the Iraq war most conservatives who agree with his views on Iraq can't bring themselves to like a man who, for example, called Sarah Palin "a disgraceful opportunist and a real moral coward."īut for all his ideological enemies - even the ones who couldn't suppress a smile when Hitchens was (voluntarily) waterboarded in 2008 - it's hard to find many people who don't respect his talent. The most recent bestseller from the celebrated British-born essayist was called God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and he famously criticized Mother Teresa in a scathing book called The Missionary Position (which followed up a television documentary he co-wrote about the nun called Hell's Angel). As much as he'd probably like it, it would be an overstatement to call Christopher Hitchens the most hated political journalist in the world.
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