Fighting Injustice

On of the less-appreciated aspects of Christopher Hitchens’ writing is that he’s a sucker for the underdog. ~Alex Massie

Provided that he finds the top dog in any given scenario to be even more worthy of his loathing, and provided that the underdog does not believe in God very seriously.  He also seems to be rather more sympathetic if the so-called underdog’s name is Paul Wolfowitz.  These days, you can almost hear him saying, “Give me your tired, your poor, your hotel heiresses yearning to breathe free.”  For his hat trick of decrying the cruel injustices of the world, he need only pen an apology for Scooter Libby.  As the end of this latest column suggests, where he connects Judge Walton’s sarcastic rebuke to the esteemed worthies filing an amicus brief in Libby’s case to the “creepy populism” he is lamenting earlier, he seems perfectly willing to do so.