Wednesday, June 22, 2005

The outrage about the nondisclosures in the Downing Street memos has led Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina to demand that we tell the al-Qaida forces in Iraq exactly when we intend to give up. Jones is the right-wing bigmouth who once wanted to rename French fries "freedom fries." He was a moral and political cretin when he did that and, not to my surprise, he has been unable to stop being a moral and political cretin since. He and his new friends are welcome to each other.

--Christopher Hitchens in Slate yesterday

So applying the name "freedom fries" was a "cretinous" thing to do, Hitchypoo? Funny, I don't recall you having the guts to risk offending your hawk friends by saying so at the time. Multiple Web searches turn up no evidence that you ever said a word. Why is that, if the stupidity was so obvious to you at the time?

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