hitchens refers to "my website http/peterk" so i thought peterk was the name hitchens used for his website address. i just saw the exchange between doug, ian and kelley on lbo in which hitchens is cited. didn't realize that by referring to "my website" hitchens was not referring to a website that he had put up himself but one that "peter k" has put up in his honor (i hadn't read to the bottom of the hitchens' website, only looked at the picture and a few of the lead titles).
it turns out that peter k is not an offical spokesperson for or voice of hitchens though hitchens does refer to the website as his. one finds this out at the bottom of the website. so since peter k is not hitchens' offical spokesperson or an internet name for hitchens, i take back the criticism of hitchens for having referred to his critics as gnats and pygmies and having relied on wm safire to defend his comments on bob kerrey. it just seems that hitchens has something of a reactionary fan, named peter k. he can't be blamed for that. i still think hitchens' distortion of chomsky's views was unconscionable. And I find justifiable my response to the hitchens' comments on kerrey that henwood had downloaded. Rakesh
