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To: carranza2 who wrote (66796)	1/18/2003 5:29:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Hitchens was a very convincing conservative the other night on the Charlie Rose Show. I know little about him so I assumed he was dyed-in-the-wool. That's kind of funny, considering Hitchens just gave up a twenty-year column in The Nation, and his best known crusade is the effort to get Henry Kissinger tried as a war criminal. Left and Right are certainly refracturing in an interesting way. Glenn Reynolds has some comments on ANSWER: THIS PIECE BY ANN MARCHAND IN THE WASHINGTON POST quotes a lot of people from A.N.S.W.E.R. but says nothing about the group's pro-Saddam, pro-North Korea, anti-American leanings. Even if mentioning that it's a front for the Workers' World Party, as David Corn has reported, is out -- calling people communists, I suppose, might sound McCarthyite, even though surely that isn't the case when they really are communists -- I would think that mentioning that it's a group that's actively rooting for the other side would only be fair. If the Ku Klux Klan organized a pro-war rally, even if a lot of the protesters were just useful idiots who didn't know who was behind it, I somehow think the Post would manage to ask a few tough questions. UPDATE: Reader John Fenton points out: "Scroll down far enough and you'll see that she refers to the organizers of the counter-demonstration as "conservative."" But of course. Count on the Post to look for the political motivations behind the patriotic slogans! Well, sometimes. instapundit.com Ann Marchand's piece: washingtonpost.com David Corn's piece: laweekly.com Corn is certainly nobody's conservative. I don't envy the position of intelligent liberals today; they are having to fight quite a tide of loony-left dim bulbism.