Why does Christopher Hitchens have a stick up his ass?

Watched Bill Maher's Real Time last night (from two weeks ago, thank you TiVo), with guest Christopher Hitchens. What's his problem? He was visably fuming the whole time. He was particularly disdainful of one of the other panelists, George Galloway, UK Member of Parliment. They clearly have some history. CH said he's "old fashioned" and he doesn't like to see Americans knock their country. It just doesn't make sense to me -- the whole purpose of freedom of speech is to allow citizens to criticize their government. He's such a fan of the invasion of Iraq, but at least part of the justification of this is to give Iraqis the freedoms of democracy, like, well, freedom of speech. And anyway, we're not saying America is bad, we're saying George Bush's policies are bad for America. How can someone that smart and that educated be unable or unwilling to make this distinction???

Bill also talked to Congressman David Drier (R-Ca). When asked about Bush paying for everything by borrowing money, Drier said the Republican party is all about growth, and Bush's tax cuts have resulted in almost 5% growth. Apparently that's the final word on that. As for the long term impact on our economy from our deficit and trade imbalance, I guess we'll let future generations cope with that.