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<< .... Christopher Hitchens nailed Moore and the European "intellectual" climate which gave rise to this fawning phenomenon. "Speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well," Hitchens said, "it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities." .... Remy .... and his pals laugh over the fact there was only one self-loathing "ism" they didn't embrace in the '60s and '70s – "cretinism". Pity we can't say the same for Michael Moore. >> Steyn-esque. Welcome back, By -- Great to know you're alive and kicking -- and to see an intelligent piece in Peking Murdoch's Australian. Wonders never cease. Love to you and to yours. Blessings -- Brian BUMPping