So who WERE the two Tory ministers who had gay flings with Christopher Hitchens at Oxford?

Dail Mail ^ | 06th March 2010 | Geoffrey Levy

[DogByte6RER]

So who WERE the two Tory ministers who had gay flings with Christopher Hitchens at Oxford?

By Geoffrey Levy

06th March 2010

Alpha minds in and around Westminster that normally grapple with issues such as the forthcoming election, the sinking pound and the war in Afghanistan, were turned this week towards a ticklish and wholly unexpected political mystery.

Which two ministers of Margaret Thatcher's government had gay relations with the writer Christopher Hitchens while at Oxford?

Since Hitchens's extraordinary claim emerged this week, the louche figure, now 60, who has been married twice, has fended off all requests for further information.

After all - even for a clever polemicist who takes his work very seriously - such a tantalising, if frivolous kiss-and-tell is bound to sell extra copies of his memoir Hitch-22 when it is published in the summer.

But those who knew 'Hitch' in his Balliol College years, between 1967 and 1970, when he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics while simultaneously running amok as a rabid Trotskyist (he got a third-class degree, incidentally), have little doubt his claims are true.

For although he has always enjoyed a reputation as a womaniser, at Oxford Hitchens was known to be bisexual.

According to one contemporary: 'He had a reputation for being AC/DC and, although a Trot, he was fancied by quite a few gay Tories and moved in those circles.'

One may wonder just why a young man who despised capitalism and all it stood for should have dallied with future Conservative ministers rather than future Left-wing leaders.

Whatever his reasons, Hitchens was very conscious of the fact that he was attractive to both men and women. As one close figure recalls: 'He flirted with both, but with men he could be rather teasing. It wasn't very nice.'

[DogByte6RER]

Apparently Hitchens' embrace of atheism makes him feel comfortable in his homosexual skin (or is it vice versa?)

[Steely Tom]

So who WERE the two Tory ministers who had gay flings with Christopher Hitchens at Oxford?

This question would only be if interest if Hitchens were a conservative.

[SmokingJoe]

Whatever his reasons, Hitchens was very conscious of the fact that he was attractive to both men and women. As one close figure recalls: ‘He flirted with both, but with men he could be rather teasing. It wasn't very nice.’

Excuse me while I throw up.
We shoulda known Hitchens was gay, when he started launching, nasty, vicious attacks against Sarah Palin. Like the insane homosexual and Palin basher Andrew Sullivan, Hitchens is as gay as they come. What is it with gay men and Sarah Palin attacks anyways?

"Christopher Hitchens: Palin’s Pals-Sarah Palin’s brand of populism is dangerous and deceptive
Writing about Sarah Palin in Newsweek last month, I pointed out the crude way in which she tried to Teflon-ize herself when allegations of weird political extremism were made against her. Thus, she had once gone to a Pat Buchanan rally wearing a pro-Buchanan button, but only because she thought it was the polite thing to do. She and her husband had both attended meetings of the Alaskan Independence Party—he as a member—but its name, she later tried to claim, only meant “independent.” (The AIP is a straightforward secessionist party.) She didn't disbelieve all the evidence for evolution, only some..."
http://www.slate.com/id/2237638/pagenum/all/#p2

"Vote for Obama (Christopher Hitchins)
McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace."

"Sarah Palin’s War on Science
The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning.
By Christopher Hitchens"
http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/

Hitchen needs to get a room with Andrew Sullivan, so these 2 bottom feeders can discuss their hatred for Sarah Palin all night that way.

[Eagles6]

And here I thought that I couldn’t find hitchens more repulsive. Who knew?

[basil]

I met Mr. Hitchens at FR protests held at the White House during the Clinton years. I have a photo of him and me at a freeper function—he has a cigarette in one hand, and his other arm is around my shoulder. Guess I need to take that one off my bulletin board—LOL!

[pogo101]

So Hitch smoked a couple of baloney ponies in college. I don’t give a damn.

[x]

"Taki" Theodoracopulos and Hitchens were always accusing each other of homosexual acts. It figured one or both of them would have to be right.

I would have said Michael Portillo, but he was younger and went to Cambridge and didn't become a minister until Thatcher left office. Most of Thatcher's ministers were older than Hitchens -- they were born before the end of the war and he was born after -- so Hitchens or the papers may be lying or stretching the truth. Bill Clinton was also at Oxford when Hitchens was there ...

I saw Hitchens on C-Span. Such an enormous head and hands on a tiny body -- he's has been quite fat at times but never very tall. He looked like the child of Oscar Wilde and Humpty Dumpty.

[isom35]

Only 2?

[constitutiongirl]

This explains alot. He’s so unattractive. I’m surprised anyone would sleep with him.

[Oldpuppymax]

So Hitchens is BRAGGING about being a faggot?? Why am I not surprised.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Hitchens, the louche figure

Heh heh, first time I hear the word 'louche', and it defines Hitchens.

[wayoverontheright]

Hitchens’ hatred of Sarah Palin is bourne largely of his abhorrence of religion in general, hers in particular, not to mention her love of free markets.

[darkangel82]

Change the “l” to a “d”.

[John S Mosby]

His embrace of alcohol makes male or female embrace immaterial. To a godless Trotskyist the whole process is just so much chemical and nervous stimulation. However, pontification on nation building for purposes of social justice— now there’s a real romance.

[razorback-bert]

A bearded Bill Clinton, at Oxford for a year as a Rhodes Scholar, was also a sometime drinking buddy of Hitchens.

Hmmm!

[Deb]

Anyone who could hate Mother Teresa is capable of anything.

[aSeattleConservative]

So Hitch smoked a couple of baloney ponies in college. I don’t give a damn.

I'm wasn't aware that baloney ever gave anyone AIDS. (I haven't done research about "smoking" it though). Homosexual sex on the other hand...

On that note, Pastor Doug Wilson should be exceptionally cautious if he ever decides to debate Chrissy boy again. As with all bisexuals, you never know which "team" they're playing for on any given date.