Many thanks kristinn for confirming that Chris Hitchens spoke at a Free Republic rally in 1999. Being he was a good guy warts and all
You’re welcome. That was a very interesting day. First there was a rally at Lafayette Park in front of the Clinton White House, then an on-the-cheap dinner with Hitchens and Keyes as featured speakers.
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As raindrops began falling, the group of Freepers grew slowly and eventually moved across Pennsylvania Avenue to Lafayette Square for the organized portion of the rally.
The program highlighted speeches from Clinton's high school sweetie Dolly Kyle Browning, Christopher Hitchens, a frequent contributor to the Nation and Salon News, and perennial presidential candidate Alan Keyes. The ideological breadth of Clinton's enemies is impressive. Where else but at an anti-Clinton rally would Keyes and Hitchens share the same bill?
Hitchens was a crowd pleaser. He took to the podium, casually smoking a cigarette, and recharged the audience amid the unbearable Washington humidity. "We don't have to allege a conspiracy. We just have here the revelation of a very sinister and power hungry and dishonest and corrupt official mind," he told the roaring crowd. "The man in the Oval Office is a rapist, a war criminal, a psychopathic liar and a man who doesn't just respond to, but solicits offers to sell his office."
Aside from Hitchens, the bulk of the crowd was rock-ribbed conservatives. "We are conservative. I am proud of being conservative," Klayman continued. "I am proud of not being bipartisan, I am proud of Judicial Watch being non-partisan. Because bipartisanship for the last six years and a half years has been another word for betrayal."
Klayman went on to detail the progress of Judicial Watch's five-year investigation of the Clinton administration and remarked on recent allegations of racist postings on Free Republic's Web site saying: "Well, who is speaking at this rally -- Larry Klayman, the grandson of Jewish immigrants, and Alan Keyes, a great African-American."
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