Professor Rush,

As a proud watcher of "fair and balanced" Fox, I know you would want me to point out to all that Christopher Hitchens' credentials as a member of the Left have been called into serious question in recent years.    His position on virtually any political issue has been radically unreliable of late, and so to suggest that the left itself is criticizing Moore's film by citing Hitchens is something of a dishonesty.  Recently he's defended the Bush administration, while coming down hard on Mother Teresa, Clinton, Reagan, and Noam Chomsky.  No political camp can claim Hitchens anymore with any kind of confidence. He's always good at provoking, since he's a brilliant name-caller, which is all he does in the first few paragraphs of the editorial you cite.  Overall, a survey of his recent comment pieces reveals a highly idiosyncratic, even bizarre, array of opinions.

Chris Stuart

Christopher Stuart
UC Foundation Assistant Professor
English Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga