This week's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher featured an all-Brit panel.

The thing that stood out to me this week was just how insufferable Christopher Hitchens is. I was turned off by his performance on The Daily Show a couple of weeks ago, and not simply by what he was saying, but the ways in which he said it.

True to form with Maher this week, Hitchens was miserable the whole time. In fact, he came off as an obnoxious, self-important, intellectual elitist; you know, everything liberals are always inaccurately accused of being.

Hitchens is among the worst of the delusional Bush apologists. I will never understand how the "fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here" reasoning makes a whit of sense, but he kept repeating increasingly paranoid and rude versions of his talking points.

I almost felt sorry for him when he was reduced to nonsensically attacking fellow panelist MP George Galloway unprovoked. Almost.

Hitchens is an ass of royal proportions, but I am curious to read his new book on Thomas Jefferson, as I am a fan of our third President.