"Thus the hapless Sean McCormack, reading painfully slowly from what was reported as a prepared government statement. How appalling for the country of the First Amendment to be represented by such an administration. What does he mean "unacceptable?" That it should be forbidden? And how abysmal that a "spokesman" cannot distinguish between criticism of a belief system and slander against a people. However, the illiterate McCormack is right in unintentionally comparing racist libels to religious faith."
http://www.slate.com/id/2135499/

{I sense that Hitchens is recovering from the awful experience of needing to defend stupid from the vastly more stupid [Bush foriegn policy vs the "liberals" wanton wallowing in idoiocy]. }