It was "thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf."

by Slainte Joe , Raleigh, Sunday, May 13, 2012, 21:13 (5140 days ago) @ NDSF

I remember because it was in the same sentence as "simpering Bambi narcissist," his description of Princess Diana.

At any rate, Hitchens was a brutally honest but rarely unfair critic of theism in general and Catholicism in particular. The same cannot be said of Fry, whose performance in that debate calls to mind this sentence from Hitchens about a film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: "I do not consider myself a sympathiser with Roman Catholicism, but this film seems motivated by the cheaper sort of malice against it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/27/evelynwaugh.fiction

EDIT: By the way, the bit you did with The Great Gatsby on that other site was top shelf.

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  - good one - Jay, 2012-05-12, 17:37
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    - That one is interesting - Jeremy (WeIsND), 2012-05-12, 18:13
      - I thought of adding the modifier "today" - Jay, 2012-05-12, 18:30
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  - I can just imagine - bpeters07, 2012-05-13, 05:52
    - You mean "lying, thieving Albanian dwarf" - NDSF, 2012-05-13, 09:06
      - It was "thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf." - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-13, 21:13
        
        Fry is no Hitchens - NDSF, 2012-05-13, 21:23
        
        I did. - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-13, 21:30
  - I put that one on the queue - Jay, 2012-05-12, 17:36
    - The Church gets precisely what it deserves - NDSF, 2012-05-12, 17:38
      - Fry is certainly charming ... - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-12, 18:35
        
        watched it last night - Jay, 2012-05-14, 11:34
        
        Even there, I prefer Hitchens's full frontal ... - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-14, 18:52
        
        Hitch - NDSF, 2012-05-14, 19:34
        
        On Maciel ... - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-14, 19:56
        
        I would enjoy that - NDSF, 2012-05-14, 20:25
        
        Sounds good. - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-14, 20:59
        
        He was horrid. - Buck Mulligan, 2012-05-12, 19:49
        
        The experience of debating Hitchens ... - Slainte Joe, 2012-05-13, 05:06

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It was "thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf."