[G.Mason]

Christopher Hitchens is many things, no doubt, but I confess I have never heard him described in quite that manner.

Still, what you say has merit.

I believe others have stated that he suffers from pretentious diction. ;)

"... And of course, since the fish rots from the head (and also the guts, the heart, the leaping piscine genitalia and the most extreme and flapping fins, in a positive orgy of moral and linguistic deliquescence)" ... Christopher Hitchens

May I have another, please?

[Old Professer]

I once watched him being interviewed with an obvious hangover of Olympian proportions; while sipping liquid fortification he deflected every barb and stone flung his way with that selfsame linguistic deliquescence until the interviewer was reduced to single-syllable protestation.