“he takes these issues on and doesn't let powerful people off the hook”

So where the hell has Hitchens been for the past seven years while the Cheney\Bush regime has been laying the foundation for establishing a crypto-fascist state--lying us into continuous war, committing war crimes, pissing on civil liberties and wiping the constitution with their asses?

Oh, I remember now, Hitch has been a happy little lapdog busy playing fetch with the neoconvicts.