I'm either suffering from early onset dementia (possible...) or I just never knew Hitchens stepped in for Lewinsky.
IIRC, she got destroyed pretty well in the media back then, can you help me out with what Hitchens did?
His best bud, Sid Blumenthal, designed the war room strategy to present her as a vile stalker (not a victim of a sex freak). He was stupid enough to tell Hitchens about it, who was appalled. He immediately reported it to the press and to Ken Starr. It stopped THAT strategy immediately although the press turned on Hitchens. Maureen Dowd called him “Hitch the Snitch.” His personal life was made public (a bad marriage) and his former best friends talked about his drinking and his supposed homosexuality.
Hitchens wrote a book about it called “No One Left to Lie To,” which he autographed for me years ago.
I guess no one remembers an impeachment rally in 1998 - one attended by some freepers - in which Hitchens spoke while sucking on a vodka bottle.