tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11862686.post115773124207923772..comments2024-03-29T01:48:46.501+00:00Comments on A Liberal Goes A Long Way: The Hitch is caught with his PantsdownStephen Tallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720133001571029678noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11862686.post-1157982669841273462006-09-11T14:51:00.000+01:002006-09-11T14:51:00.000+01:00Gregg: As 13 year-olds, you had a rhyme about Padd...Gregg: As 13 year-olds, you had a rhyme about Paddy Ashdown? <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure whether to be impressed or appalled...Mr Eugenideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555302880124512593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11862686.post-1157865191368556082006-09-10T06:13:00.000+01:002006-09-10T06:13:00.000+01:00I can only assume Hitchens' residence in America h...I can only assume Hitchens' residence in America has left unfamiliar with recent British political history. I was 13 when the "Paddy Pantsdown" scandal happend. I vividly remember the refrain from the school corridor:<BR/>"We're neither left wing nor right wing, but somewhere in between. I touched her neither on the left leg nor on the right leg, but..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11862686.post-1157754150928180252006-09-08T23:22:00.000+01:002006-09-08T23:22:00.000+01:00LibLeg - I guess it's the pressure of deadlines in...LibLeg - I guess it's the pressure of deadlines in a 24x7 media world. But some elementary fact-checking wouldn't come amiss. In fairness, the error was soon corrected.<BR/><BR/>Alex - it has at least brought me a load of new readers trying to find out what it was Hitch said before thegrauniad woke up to its inadvertant libel.Stephen Tallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11720133001571029678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11862686.post-1157740002777145362006-09-08T19:26:00.000+01:002006-09-08T19:26:00.000+01:00Crikey.And Millennium thought people ripped him of...Crikey.<BR/><BR/>And Millennium thought people ripped <I>him</I> off…! <BR/><BR/>Handy of them to highlight the line where he starts quoting you word-for-word.Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.com