I know that when anyone is beaten, it isn't anything funny at all, however, I keep imagining Hitchens with that British accent yelling and cursing and fighting in the streets of Lebanon!
Christopher Hitchens writes for Vanity Fair, and has appeared on various news stations with his opinions on a variety of things. He wanted to prove waterboarding was torture, and underwent the procedure himself. He went to Lebanon with a couple of other journalists and decided to deface a poster of the SSNP's in the presence of members of the SSNP, according to Huffpo:
The assault on Christopher Hitchens' body continues - he's been waterboarded, body-waxed and suffered through countless hangovers.
In the latest incident, Hitchens sustained gashed knuckles and bruises in a vicious street brawl with shoe-shopping thugs during a Valentine's Day night out on the streets of Beirut.
Hitchens, the chain-smoking, hard-drinking, intellectually ambitious Vanity Fair columnist, was beat up during the altercation, according to several blogs.
Hitchens was apparently visiting Beirut at the invitation of the Hariri-Saudi group, affiliated with the assassinated Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, when he defaced a poster for the Syrian Social Nationalist party and was assaulted by some members of the SSNP who happened to be walking by, according to the Angry Arab News Service.
Hitchens was out with several other journalists - Jonathan Foreman and conservative blogger Michael Totten when they got into a street brawl on trendy Hamda Street, reports Forbes.com:
I would think if you are going to do something so juvenile, you would make sure no one was around to beat the hell out of you for doing it! Perhaps Hitchens was drunk.
According to the Angry Arab News Service:
At the invitation of Hariri-Saudi group, Hitchens is visiting Lebanon. A source sent me this: "I dont know if you find this as news worthy or not, but Christopher Hitchens is currently in Beirut sponsored by the same group that owns that crap NOW Lebanon. He got in a few nights ago and surprisingly went out drinking. On his way out of the bar he saw an SSNP poster and wrote on it "Fuck the SSNP". There just happened to be some SSNP thugs near by--most likely asking people for their ID, and most likely to no avail--and saw him write on the poster and kicked his ass. He is still walking with a limp."
Either Hitchens is stupid as all get out, or brave as hell. You decide!
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