sigh, what I wrote was : Had I not exposed those words as Hitchens' and had claimed them for my own, one wonders if this editorial's cautions may have been directed at me, raising the question then, if the expressing of unvarnished opinion regarding journalistic critique, requires prior fame and acceptance before it can be seen as something other than uninformed and uneducated vitriol....

there is only one question there Alceste...it was obvious why I asked it and it was even preceded by the words " raising the question then " in order to make it obvious.. to use a famous lawerly-like expression..." your Honour, would you please direct the witness to answer the question "

here's the problem for you...if you answer No, you'll have to answer for the number of times you've derided common posters for submitting critique directly in line with published   expression in media...if you answer Yes, you'll have to admit to a penchant for elitism...which would be difficult I'm sure