Christopher Hitchens: Shinola

Kudos to Christopher Hitchens. He was on the Laura Ingraham show this morning discussing the success of the Iraqi elections.

He was describing the misunderstanding in the MSM about the motives of Sunnis in Iraq. In Sunni cities like Fallujah, voters stayed inside for most of the voting day but started to come out in number when the coast became clear of violence.

They are not all motivated by the Saddam Sunni wing which is a "mafia style family from Tikrit" and not representative of the entire sect in Iraq, so says Hitchens. But many reporters still tout that Sunnis may still rebel and cause trouble for a new constitution and government moving forward.

The upshot, to Hitchens: "these statements are made by those who don't know Sunnis from Shinola."