Christopher Hitchens vs. Pat Buchanan Part 2: Socialism and Bill Clinton (1993)

[xxcrysad3000xx]

@ProperMuzik Bill O'rielly is now considered a paragon of culture and manners compared to the rest of the dregs on cable news, that includes most of the MSNBC cronies who make a point not to have intelligent people for discussion on their nightly broadcast--instead presenting opinion and bias as fact and rewarding the loudest and meanest with the prize of the next vacant TV slot.

[i3u7n5]

Interesting point Buchanan makes re: the redistribution of money in the form of "rewards" as he put it for people of lesser means or performing altruistic civic activities being a precursor to socialism. Fast forward to today - the moral inverse of this proposal of redistribution of wealth and rewards are issued to the agents of greed responsible for the current global economic crisis in the form of bailouts and bonuses. *That* form of socialism seems to perfectly agreeable to Washington.

[Craigmin]

@i3u7n5 How is Buchanan's point "interesting" in light of the recent bailouts?

[ThirstyDad65]

love them both, thanks for this

[knightschwartz]

The GOP sold its soul. With NAFTA, with amensty, with the war on terror.

[RightWingHunter666]

@ 4:49 - Lmao thats hilarious when he shows Hitchens that picture of the two young blond women with Bill Clinton.

[atheistkyo]

I love Christopher's voice.

[hugoegbert79]

David Cameron's government in the UK are trying to push a similar thing to this "Politics of Meaning" bullshit-they call it "The Big Society". I recognised it when Hitchens was describing it. Interesting that fraudulent political leaders come out with this fig leaf every now and then.

[gujjucheap]

for obvious reasons?.................... wow people were different back then

[SkullOfYorick]

We need more independent thinkers. Pat Buchanan and Christopher Hitchens are both great!

[baz2186]

Hitchen's voice is so dull!!

[CaledoniaJMR]

@baz2186 - Are you kidding? He has a sexy voice.

[radomu1]

haha, hitch makes a foreshadowing of the Lewinsky affair

[SmelOdies]

Brian clearly uncomfortable that he's sitting with two Clinton haters.

[TheConciseStatement]

@SmelOdies

He seems more uncomfortable with Michelle Pfeiffer than either of them, and she looks relatively modest there. He'd have a heart attack if he saw Batman Returns.

[eqsmooth]

@SmelOdies My guess is that Buchanan dislikes Clinton for very different reasons and Hitchens is a Clinton scholar. He's got more to work with. Hitch has a much more charismatic sense of humour, too. Bush II was a failure all around and has faded away. Despite Clinton's "crimes" he remains as popular as ever. Bush I (part of one of the worst wealthiest, elitist crime families running the world today was emotionally devastated that a hillbilly from Arkansas trounced him. He cried like a baby.

[marktrade88]

@SmelOdies Yeah, but I wonder how much of it simply sitting with two people who have same opinion about him.