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Christopher Hitchens "can tell the difference between a true tumbrel remark and a false one."

althouse.blogspot.com » 2008 » September » 1st » Christopher Hitchens "can tell the difference between a true tumbrel remark and a false one."

Tagged: uk, poverty, economics, mccain, rhetoric, hitchens

And, he assures us, it's not John McCain saying -- asked about his houses -- "I think—I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where—I'll have them get to you." It's: The late queen mother, being driven in a Rolls-Royce through a stricken district of Manchester, England, said as she winced at the view, "I see no point at all in being poor." The Duke of St. Albans once told an interviewer … Continue Reading »

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