The worm who mugged Mother Teresa and Bob Hope turns his filthy thoughts to Iraq, and the issue of news being distributed by the military to Iraqi media. Christopher Hitchens climbs on his high horse and pontificates based upon the New York Times story that I’ve already demonstrated is error filled and slanted. But Chrissy proceeds, none the less, since goodness and right are mere concepts in the real world.

His first charge is that it discredits Iraqi media at a delicate time in their development. Obviously he hasn’t read any Iraqi papers or any Iraqi bloggers. The beauty of the Iraqi media is that each and every outlet has a perspective. Some are very religious, some not. Some pro-American, some not. The Iraqis understand that it is pure fiction to believe that any media outlet has no opinion about the news. The Iraqis know which newspapers and broadcast stations support the United States. They’re not stooopid. And Chrissy overlooks the obvious in the Times. It clearly states that most of the stories were run under the banner of advertisement or editorial opinion. No deception there.

I have to wonder how he just knows that the Pentagon has no budget for media relations in Iraq. Because I read a dozen press releases from there a day, at least. Maybe he ought to call up Centcom and let them know that he doesn’t want to hear any of their news so they should stop making it.

He drags in the recent report that President Bush threatened to bomb Al Jazeera. He finds that thought reprehensible, as I would suspect, he would find the thought of bombing Radio Berlin or Tokyo Rose.

He then drags in the reported deaths of some Iraqi journalists from our fire. Of course, in his view the Brits would have done it better. Yes, the Brits have done so well with their empire, haven’t they? Yes, we can learn a lot from how the Brits ran their empire, creating the IRA, the MauMau, Ghandi, oh, hey, and the American Revolution.

Then he has the gall to suggest that fraud was committed and the American people were lied to. That would be why the program was public knowledge in June, and why both the Washington Post and BBC reported on aspects of it. Big bloody secret, that was!

Finally, he drags the bleeding body of Pat Tillman across the screen, proving to himself at least, that the Pentagon is a bunch of lying, thieving scoundrels. And to cap it off, he MAKES UP a story about Iraq to prove just how awful the Americans are.

I realize that some conservatives see Chrissy as a valued member of the club. I don’t. His greatest delight appears to be in tearing down not creating. He is a classic example of Old Europe, bitter at his betters and unable to construct anything of value from decaying prose.

Is he speaking of himself when he states: Now any fool is entitled to say that a free Iraqi paper is a mouthpiece…? His hodgepodge of accusations bolstered by errors and innuendo might have earned him his salary for today’s column, but that’s all it earned him.