The old parochialism meets the not-so-new isolationism in Michele Bachmann.
By Christopher Hitchens
"That was actually three dripping custard pies, rather than just the one, with which Rep. Michele Bachmann assailed her own face by bragging to Fox News about her small-town Iowa roots. Having hymned the incomparable Dairy Queen and Wonder Bread facilities boasted by the sturdy small town of her girlhood, she went on to claim that "John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa," adding, "That's the kind of spirit that I have, too."
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

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Has Bachmann Met Her Waterloo?
June 29, 2011Posted by Tom at 21:11 23 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Michele Bachmann, Slate
Christopher Hitchens Hay Festival 2008
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Hitchens talks religion at Hay in 2008, with Q and A.
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Christopher Hitchens talks to Ian McEwan 2007
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Hay Festival 2006: Carter, Hitchens and Younge
I'll be posting older material in coming days, to expand the archive.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Christopher Hitchens and the Guardian’s US correspondent Gary Younge discuss US foreign policy at Hay Festival 2006.
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