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==Insults toward Jerry Falwell==

In a TV interview with Hannity and Colmes a day after [[Jerry Falwell]]'s death, Christopher Hitchens expressed his anger over Falwell's legacy, calling the media coverage of his death uniform in its "stupidity" and calling Falwell himself a "vulgar fraud and crook"<ref name=FAL>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKkOSMaTk4</ref>. Hitchens went on to state such comments as "we have been rid of an extremely dangerous demagogue who lived by hatred of others and prejudice", "that it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to", "the evil he did will live after him", and "and I think his death is a deliverance" <ref name=FAL/>. [[Hannity]] said that such comments were "crude", "thoughtless", "mean", and "hateful."

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~~==Select bibliography ==~~

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*''Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten'' (Cassell, 1976)

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*''Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989)

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*''Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)

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*''Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990)

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*''The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice'' (Verso, 1995)

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*''Prepared for the Worst'' (Hill and Wang, 1989)

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*''For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports'' (Verso, 1993)

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*''No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family'' (Verso, 2000)

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*''God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything'' - outside the US, published with the alternate subtitle ''The Case Against Religion'' (Atlantic, 2007)

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Some other titles include: “Letters to a Young Contrarian,” “The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001)” and his memoir, “Hitch-22. [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-a-reading-list.html#ixzz1gi8RBrKh]

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~~<blockquote>~~

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“Stranger in a Strange Land”: In this piece that The Atlantic published two months after the attacks of 9/11, Hitchens summed up his break from the establishment left over the attacks and the war on terror that was then only beginning. [[Ibidem]]

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~~</blockquote>~~

==Death==

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