Christopher Hitchens has certainly been training his sights on the Clintons lately, and he does another great job skewering them is his piece "Fool Me Thrice — It should be no surprise that the Clintons are playing the race card."

For those of you who don’t know Hitchens, he cannot be described as a member of that specter of Hillary Clinton’s vivid imagination, the "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy."  On the contrary, he’s a man who has made quite a living of late traipsing around the country peddling a militant secularist book designed to destroy people’s faith (as to this, I do intend to leave him a quivering, amorphous mass of atheistic goo when I finally can debate him on the subject).  Yet he does understand what the Clintons are: Liars.

Oh, I used that word.  That blunt, primitive, simple, childlike, vernacular term.  Is such verbiage unbecoming to a commentator?  Would you think I was more intellectual if I euphemized?  Well, a Clinton by any other name is still a liar.  But I digress . . . or do I?

Anyway, here are the first two paragraphs of Hitchens’ piece:

How can one equal Bill Clinton for thuggery and opportunism when it comes to the so-called "race card"? And where does one even start with the breathtaking nastiness of his own conduct, and that of his supporters, in the last week? Barack Obama carries South Carolina having made no sectarian appeal to any specific kind of voter, and the best Clinton can say is that this is no better than Jesse Jackson managed to do. Really? Did Jackson come south having already got himself elected the senator from Illinois? And, come to think of it, was Jackson so much to be despised and sneered at when he was needed as Clinton’s "confessor," along with Billy Graham, during the squalor of impeachment?

This calculated willingness to shop on both sides of the street of racial politics was actually analyzed quite shrewdly by Dick Morris, the former consigliere of the gruesome twosome, in conversation with Sean Hannity last week. The Clintons, he thought, would be quite happy to lose big to the "black vote" in South Carolina. It would enable them to signal that they were the ones to stem the flow of the color tide. Morris’ host protested that this seemed a touch cynical. Morris jovially assured him that he knew the people he was talking about.

Read the rest here.