I like Hitchens, but you have a point. Yes, he's a liberal, but I think he tries to think through things and not blindly drink his kool-aid. I respect that. And he's a patriot. He's a good thinker and I can read him even when I disagree because he does think. But he has a hatred which gives him a very blind side--Christianity. So while I may scan what he has to say about it, it's the one area that I don't try to read and consider his thoughts.
He may hate Christianity, but he does not like it when Christian minorities are persecuted. When he originally wrote about Mother Teresa, he said that he was prepared to give her her due in helping the poor until he met her and observed her operation in action. He was not impressed, and one of his main beefs with her was that it was quite obvious that she wasn't spending the millions being donated to her for care of the poor in India on the poor.