“(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag…a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag…I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Quoted in The New Yorker, October 2006. According to writer Ian Parker, this was Hitchens' response to a dinner-party guest who made a favourable comment about Howard Dean. Parker states that Hitchens appeared heavily drunk at the time.
2000s, 2006

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