Discussion on the Hitchens-Cole debate

Discussion on the Hitchens-Cole debate:

BTC News � BTC News unearths another Ahmadinejad apologist: "I wrote about the Hitchens column here; I think I failed to make clear two important points — the first being that the email Hitchens quoted was sent by Cole to a colleague on a private discussion list on April 22, while Hitchens filed and Slate published his column on May 2 — and completely misfired on a third.

The timing is significant because the quoted email was an early one in a discussion about the Ahmadinejad speech. In it, Cole mistakenly referenced another phrase, a lapse he corrected the next day, April 23, in a subsequent email to the group. So when Hitchens wrote his column, the error he attributed to poor scholarship and bad intentions had been acknowledged and corrected by Cole more than a week earlier."