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--SPhilbrick T 22:54, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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{{Talkback|Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback/2011_July_10#Carl_Schuster|ts=SPhilbrick T 22:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)}}

Under Political Views

Specifically, his note that a funny woman was "so rare as to be like ... a dog walking on its hind legs:

This quote is actually borrowed from Boswell's Life of Johnson. Johnson remarks that a dog walking on its hind legs does not do it well but the point is that it's done at all. He makes the same comment later about a woman preaching. I suppose the construction was a commonplace, like many jokes and witticisms, so Hitchens has every right to use it.