What I find most disturbing watching videos from American news programs is how clearly biased the presenter always is. Not just that but they seem to have invited on the alternative view just to shout them down and keep them quiet without letting them fully express a single argument.
I wouldn't even say they invite them on out of formality because it seems more sinister than that, they seem to have been invited as part of a conspiracy to brainwash the audience that their argument is invalid.
What's the fucking point of having an alternative view on your show if you refuse to listen? This isn't democracy, it's fucking feudalism. Believe this or else eh
Watching a driveling moron like Chris Matthews argue with someone as intelligent and eloquent as Hitchens is always funny. Matthews can barely get out a coherent sentence.
I disagree with Hitchens on some fronts and my goal is not to impress you. Your definition of like is inconsequential. He promoted a certain war, but not war itself. Their is a difference between promoting war and promoting a certain war which he felt prerogative. Hitchens did not think all wars needed to be fought nor was it something he yearned for.
The Nobel Peace Price is taking place in Oslo, Norway. It is the only Nobel Price taking place in Norway. The other is taking place in stockholm, Sweden.
@andrewgolf1030 That's what he is. He's a secular totalitarian. He loves war, thinks people are stupid and religion is a distraction. He's the perfect Neocon.
What ridiculous partisanism the interviewer displayed! Can he not think outside of tribal boxes? This, by the way, is coming from someone who would always vote Democrat if he lived in the United States (I disagree with them on pretty much everything).
@monokhem do you think that if you called Hitchens a drunken ass to his face he would really care? No he would probably laugh and then agree with you. By calling him a jingoist I think you would get a different response.He was a chauvinist to a certain extent, but this did not blind him from criticizing the major faults of the U.S. or even Britain. Calling him a nationalist is debatable. But none of this contributed to his stance on foreign policy.
@dalhar20 I don't think he would care at all. Neither would Churchill, Hemmingway or Axle Rose. That wouldn't make it not a fault. Nationalists can be critical of their nation too. Hitler was a hell of a nationalist and he found quite a few things about Germany he didn't like. All A jingoist is just a nationalist who likes war.
@monokhem Hitchens didn't like war. He understood that it was at times a necessity. If you further investigate his reasoning's behind his stance on Western and Middle-east relations perhaps you would understood why he was such an advocate of the war.
@dalhar20 The more you like it the more you think it is necessary. He liked it much more than I did, and it isn't like I am unfamiliar with the man or his arguments. I find him entertaining and agree with him on quite a few things, but he never made a convincing case for that war.
@monokhem no, that train of logic is false here. Hitchens did not like war, but he knew when it was imperative. The useless and apathetic nature reasonings for war and its outcome was not something he basked in, no more than genocide at the hand of a tyrant.
@monokhem Again I will restate that he did not LIKE the war. Hitchens was not a man who would get behind any war just for the sake of it. He understood that Saddam Hussein came into power and was able to commit genocide because of the U.S. government, that a natural resource was being held by a mob which had no business with any kind of power. But I am overstepping my boundaries by oversimplifying the complex reasoning's for Hitchens stance on the war.
@dalhar20 He liked it plenty. He liked enough to promote it all over the world. I've heard Hitchens' case for the Iraq war. It was pathetic, and that is why he had his clock cleaned by George Galloway who actually didn't like war.
@monokhem His views on Vietnam are contradictory to your assertion. He was against anything totalitarian and he deeply cared about human rights. War and its inevitable out come, suffering, was something that he did not cherish or hold dear to his heart. Your views on his of the Iraq war are your own, and do nothing for your original statement. He did not LIKE war. LIKE has nothing to do with it.
@dalhar20 He liked that war plenty, and he wouldn't be the first person to have sold his soul between the Vietnam and Iraq wars. You do whatever mental gymnastics you want to paint this guy as perfect in your mind but I am unimpressed. In the world I live in when you promote something relentlessly and are on TV all the time talking about how important it is to do you like it and that is that.
What's next? Did Von Braun not like space travel? Maybe Ed Bagly Jr. doesn't like the electric car.
@monokhem I disagree with Hitchens on some fronts and my goal is not to impress you. Your definition of like is inconsequential. He promoted a certain war, but not war itself. Their is a difference between promoting war and promoting a certain war which he felt prerogative. Hitchens did not think all wars needed to be fought nor was it something he yearned for.
0:01 Sgnnaaarrrfff -ever heard of a tissue or kleenex, Chris? Remnants of doing lines?
Something completely different; most of the worlds informed citizens thinks the US govt. specifically, are a bunch of whining, self aggrandizing, phony hypocrites. Hopefully, the world differentiates the US gov and excludes the avg. Joe public at large, but they're included as proxy because they're the dolts who vote for the idiot politicians in that continue corrupt, quasi -true democracy)
Just one thing: It. Is. The. NORWEGIANS - not the Swedes - that give out the Nobel Peace Prize. Why is that so hard to understand? And what a much they make of it most every time... Why can't they just do like they do in physics, medicine and chemistry and wait 30 years after the actual achievement with giving the award? It's because they love to have sitting American presidents and such visiting Oslo...
And the dummy that got the Nobel is sending more and more troops to the Middle East (and elsewhere) and is planning on more invasions. What the fuck did Obama get the damned prize FOR? Reading teleprompters?
@gvman3670 It all depends on who you think the aggressor is, thirty years of totalitarian rule or the fight against that regime for freedom. Babe, sometimes war is the answer .. it's some thing Obama has been a bit slow at learning (but at least he's capable of learning which is why I voted for him) but some progress is better than no progress at all.
@nyomythus Are you suggesting that Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize because he (as President of the United States) is starting to learn that some things can only be settled by war?
@nyomythus Interesting: In America personal liberties are eroding really fast, police can beat you up as if in China...Where is the progress? I prefer to move to other country in which there is no pretence of freedom, and that was said by Abe Lincoln.
@nyomythus I know war is sometimes unavoidable. I served in Desert Storm with the USN. My problem is his lying bullshit, and I knew he was a lying baboon.
@nyomythus Didn't really understand your reply. Cutting through the BS is one thing, shouting doesnt do it. It is uncommon to see people interviewed on many channels where the interviewer actually listens to the interviewees comments and then reflects upon them. Fox is a classic example. Everything is black and white, they dont look deeper into issues and examine pros and cons. It is often just a rant at the person interviewed.
@nyomythus Actually that's precisely the inverse of why the world thinks America's full of retarded Americans, bearing religiosity and a breathtakingly ignorant electorate.
@kirked007 Because the media in the US doesn't try to give you the facts and allow you to come to your own conclusion, but gives you slanted facts and tells you what to think. That's why whenever someone is a guest on one of these shows (which they were invited to in the first place) and they disagree with the host the host gets mad and tells them they're wrong instead of objectively evaluating their views.
I have to say, one of the biggest problems I see on American current affairs broadcasting (I'm not an American, mind you) is that serious matters aren't talked about in depth. You get a soundbyte from one guy, an interruption or two from the 'moderator', a cross for a soundbyte from the other guy, and then a commercial - without anything having been fleshed out or delved into. It seems an impoverished way of educating an audience.
@nyomythus Lenin was at the forefront of a militant revolutionary movement that lead to the wholesale slaughter of private individuals purely on the basis of class (Farmers, Bankers, etc), he also ordered large scale death warrants and purges
and ultimately paved the way for Stalin "the asshole" to take power.
as for the tsars, the lesser of two evils is still evil
@nyomythus In first few years of Lenin's rule, his regime has executed more people than Tzarist regime in the whole 19th century. Stop this "Lenin wasn't so bad" nonsense.
What I find most disturbing watching videos from American news programs is how clearly biased the presenter always is. Not just that but they seem to have invited on the alternative view just to shout them down and keep them quiet without letting them fully express a single argument.
I wouldn't even say they invite them on out of formality because it seems more sinister than that, they seem to have been invited as part of a conspiracy to brainwash the audience that their argument is invalid.
MaximumSanguinello 3 days ago
What's the fucking point of having an alternative view on your show if you refuse to listen? This isn't democracy, it's fucking feudalism. Believe this or else eh
TheDavelogan 3 weeks ago
Watching a driveling moron like Chris Matthews argue with someone as intelligent and eloquent as Hitchens is always funny. Matthews can barely get out a coherent sentence.
rocknrollguru23 4 weeks ago
Obama should give Back the award !!!!!!
53dumey 1 month ago
i don't recall hitch saying anything against the missionary position... haha!
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Here0s0Johnny 1 month ago
1:02 is hysterical in my opinion
jonlin37 1 month ago
I disagree with Hitchens on some fronts and my goal is not to impress you. Your definition of like is inconsequential. He promoted a certain war, but not war itself. Their is a difference between promoting war and promoting a certain war which he felt prerogative. Hitchens did not think all wars needed to be fought nor was it something he yearned for.
dalhar20 1 month ago
Hitch makes Chris look like a fool. Most of this video is just a handjob to the president. This is utterly pityful.
TheSultan03 2 months ago 3
The Nobel Peace Price is taking place in Oslo, Norway. It is the only Nobel Price taking place in Norway. The other is taking place in stockholm, Sweden.
RexTauri 2 months ago
Matthews is a terrible interviewer.
rossmetacraft 2 months ago
I love how Chris Matthews naively called Hitchens a neo-conservative.
andrewgolf1030 2 months ago
@andrewgolf1030 That's what he is. He's a secular totalitarian. He loves war, thinks people are stupid and religion is a distraction. He's the perfect Neocon.
monokhem 2 months ago
Wth, did Chris Matthews seriously say Hitchens was "on the right"? He had an interventionist foreign policy, but he was firmly on the left.
SaimDI 2 months ago 2
What ridiculous partisanism the interviewer displayed! Can he not think outside of tribal boxes? This, by the way, is coming from someone who would always vote Democrat if he lived in the United States (I disagree with them on pretty much everything).
SaimDI 2 months ago
Is it not possible on US television to JUST LET THE PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED ACTUALLY SPEAK!!!
Farewell Hitch.
MrDragon1968 2 months ago
I sometimes thank that Christophers majors fault is that he is too intelligent. Some people are just not capable of understanding his aruments.
dalhar20 2 months ago 31
@dalhar20 Really? Being a drunken jingoistic ass didn't register?
monokhem 2 months ago
@monokhem do you think that if you called Hitchens a drunken ass to his face he would really care? No he would probably laugh and then agree with you. By calling him a jingoist I think you would get a different response.He was a chauvinist to a certain extent, but this did not blind him from criticizing the major faults of the U.S. or even Britain. Calling him a nationalist is debatable. But none of this contributed to his stance on foreign policy.
dalhar20 2 months ago
@dalhar20 I don't think he would care at all. Neither would Churchill, Hemmingway or Axle Rose. That wouldn't make it not a fault. Nationalists can be critical of their nation too. Hitler was a hell of a nationalist and he found quite a few things about Germany he didn't like. All A jingoist is just a nationalist who likes war.
monokhem 2 months ago
@monokhem Hitchens didn't like war. He understood that it was at times a necessity. If you further investigate his reasoning's behind his stance on Western and Middle-east relations perhaps you would understood why he was such an advocate of the war.
dalhar20 2 months ago
@dalhar20 The more you like it the more you think it is necessary. He liked it much more than I did, and it isn't like I am unfamiliar with the man or his arguments. I find him entertaining and agree with him on quite a few things, but he never made a convincing case for that war.
monokhem 2 months ago
@monokhem no, that train of logic is false here. Hitchens did not like war, but he knew when it was imperative. The useless and apathetic nature reasonings for war and its outcome was not something he basked in, no more than genocide at the hand of a tyrant.
dalhar20 2 months ago
@dalhar20 He liked enough to consider the Iraq War imperative, so was he stupid or did he like war?
monokhem 2 months ago
@monokhem Again I will restate that he did not LIKE the war. Hitchens was not a man who would get behind any war just for the sake of it. He understood that Saddam Hussein came into power and was able to commit genocide because of the U.S. government, that a natural resource was being held by a mob which had no business with any kind of power. But I am overstepping my boundaries by oversimplifying the complex reasoning's for Hitchens stance on the war.
dalhar20 2 months ago
@dalhar20 He liked it plenty. He liked enough to promote it all over the world. I've heard Hitchens' case for the Iraq war. It was pathetic, and that is why he had his clock cleaned by George Galloway who actually didn't like war.
monokhem 1 month ago
@monokhem His views on Vietnam are contradictory to your assertion. He was against anything totalitarian and he deeply cared about human rights. War and its inevitable out come, suffering, was something that he did not cherish or hold dear to his heart. Your views on his of the Iraq war are your own, and do nothing for your original statement. He did not LIKE war. LIKE has nothing to do with it.
dalhar20 1 month ago
@dalhar20 He liked that war plenty, and he wouldn't be the first person to have sold his soul between the Vietnam and Iraq wars. You do whatever mental gymnastics you want to paint this guy as perfect in your mind but I am unimpressed. In the world I live in when you promote something relentlessly and are on TV all the time talking about how important it is to do you like it and that is that.
What's next? Did Von Braun not like space travel? Maybe Ed Bagly Jr. doesn't like the electric car.
monokhem 1 month ago
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@monokhem I disagree with Hitchens on some fronts and my goal is not to impress you. Your definition of like is inconsequential. He promoted a certain war, but not war itself. Their is a difference between promoting war and promoting a certain war which he felt prerogative. Hitchens did not think all wars needed to be fought nor was it something he yearned for.
dalhar20 1 month ago
@monokhem I meant to say that Hitchens was not a nationalist. He did not feel that their was a superior race, he condoned such attitudes.
dalhar20 2 months ago
0:01 Sgnnaaarrrfff -ever heard of a tissue or kleenex, Chris? Remnants of doing lines?
Something completely different; most of the worlds informed citizens thinks the US govt. specifically, are a bunch of whining, self aggrandizing, phony hypocrites. Hopefully, the world differentiates the US gov and excludes the avg. Joe public at large, but they're included as proxy because they're the dolts who vote for the idiot politicians in that continue corrupt, quasi -true democracy)
edvvard1 3 months ago
Just one thing: It. Is. The. NORWEGIANS - not the Swedes - that give out the Nobel Peace Prize. Why is that so hard to understand? And what a much they make of it most every time... Why can't they just do like they do in physics, medicine and chemistry and wait 30 years after the actual achievement with giving the award? It's because they love to have sitting American presidents and such visiting Oslo...
TheBushman7 3 months ago
I love watching Hitchens destroy the left (and both parties for that matter).
Fingolfin3423 3 months ago
I'm glad there's someone out there who realises that Henry Kissinger was a war-mongerer
ThorandTrevor 5 months ago 2
Sally Hawkins is much better than Meryl Fucking Streep
phantomdoodler 5 months ago
And the dummy that got the Nobel is sending more and more troops to the Middle East (and elsewhere) and is planning on more invasions. What the fuck did Obama get the damned prize FOR? Reading teleprompters?
gvman3670 6 months ago 2
@gvman3670 It all depends on who you think the aggressor is, thirty years of totalitarian rule or the fight against that regime for freedom. Babe, sometimes war is the answer .. it's some thing Obama has been a bit slow at learning (but at least he's capable of learning which is why I voted for him) but some progress is better than no progress at all.
nyomythus 6 months ago
@nyomythus Are you suggesting that Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize because he (as President of the United States) is starting to learn that some things can only be settled by war?
Kmunz7 5 months ago
@nyomythus
Yep. Kill 1 mln people in Iraq to save them from dictatorship...
Even IF war is the answer, how come he got the PEACE price for making WAR?!
grozde 3 months ago
@nyomythus "sometimes war is the answer" I bet you weren't saying that when george bush was in office.
TheWoWGrind 2 months ago 5
@TheWoWGrind I most definitely was.
nyomythus 2 months ago
@TheWoWGrind Pretty much everyone that said George Bush was screwing up said that. Obama said that. Hilary Clinton said that. Every politician did.
monokhem 2 months ago
@nyomythus Interesting: In America personal liberties are eroding really fast, police can beat you up as if in China...Where is the progress? I prefer to move to other country in which there is no pretence of freedom, and that was said by Abe Lincoln.
gnossticc 2 months ago
@nyomythus I know war is sometimes unavoidable. I served in Desert Storm with the USN. My problem is his lying bullshit, and I knew he was a lying baboon.
gvman3670 2 months ago
@gvman3670 He's black!
joeschmo468 2 months ago
Why do American interviewers on pretty much every channel (and certainly on Fox News) always shout?
kirked007 6 months ago 28
@kirked007 Because there is no light without heat. American's cutting through the bullshit is one of our finest traits.
nyomythus 6 months ago
@nyomythus Didn't really understand your reply. Cutting through the BS is one thing, shouting doesnt do it. It is uncommon to see people interviewed on many channels where the interviewer actually listens to the interviewees comments and then reflects upon them. Fox is a classic example. Everything is black and white, they dont look deeper into issues and examine pros and cons. It is often just a rant at the person interviewed.
kirked007 6 months ago
@kirked007 You've stolen the words right out from my mouth!
ccsmiley2 5 months ago
@nyomythus Actually that's precisely the inverse of why the world thinks America's full of retarded Americans, bearing religiosity and a breathtakingly ignorant electorate.
TAz69x 6 months ago 6
@TAz69x That's pretty self-loathing sounding, coming from an Alabama boy ... I can make shit up too.
nyomythus 6 months ago
@nyomythus your reply makes no god damn sense
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TAz69x 6 months ago 2
@nyomythus No, he's right. It's exactly the inverse.
benmols 4 months ago
@kirked007 Because the media in the US doesn't try to give you the facts and allow you to come to your own conclusion, but gives you slanted facts and tells you what to think. That's why whenever someone is a guest on one of these shows (which they were invited to in the first place) and they disagree with the host the host gets mad and tells them they're wrong instead of objectively evaluating their views.
gothikchile13 5 months ago 3
@kirked007 they don't.
monokhem 2 months ago
@kirked007 americans don't know what the hell they are saying, as long as they are saying something.
liquidfreak 1 month ago
@kirked007 talking for the sake of talking
liquidfreak 1 month ago
Reptilian shapeshift at 1:00
amsku12591 6 months ago
Hitchens is so well read that he leaves his opponents and other antagonists (including vacuous Fox show hosts) for dead.
muzvh1 7 months ago
I have to say, one of the biggest problems I see on American current affairs broadcasting (I'm not an American, mind you) is that serious matters aren't talked about in depth. You get a soundbyte from one guy, an interruption or two from the 'moderator', a cross for a soundbyte from the other guy, and then a commercial - without anything having been fleshed out or delved into. It seems an impoverished way of educating an audience.
mymentor 8 months ago
Matthews is such a clown
Deathfromthesky2112 9 months ago 4
I love the way Hitchens toys with his pray, he takes them to the point were their whole world view is about to collapse, then he lets them go.
Like a cruel cat toying with a mouse.
NoahTheZoophile 9 months ago
Family man? I wonder how he finds time to be with that family of his when he's not tanning his cancerous-ass off.
Yedaddy1234 9 months ago in playlist Christopher Hitchens
The interviewer is an idiot.
RUBENSolol 1 year ago
Why do dark spots keep appearring on the faces of all the speakers? pause at 4:32 ....weird huh?
LowleyUK 1 year ago
jesus christ. let the man speak. fuck. cant hear him finish a sentence without this dumbfuck interrupting
explodingromancandle 1 year ago
tThi is the lproressives progresive. All of you suck and Hitchns sucks the most.
mueygringo 1 year ago
Well, Lenin wasn't so bad in perceptive to what the Russian people were facing -- Stalin was the asshole -- to say it mildly as possible.
nyomythus 2 years ago
@nyomythus Lenin was at the forefront of a militant revolutionary movement that lead to the wholesale slaughter of private individuals purely on the basis of class (Farmers, Bankers, etc), he also ordered large scale death warrants and purges
and ultimately paved the way for Stalin "the asshole" to take power.
as for the tsars, the lesser of two evils is still evil
Floridanon407 1 year ago
@nyomythus In first few years of Lenin's rule, his regime has executed more people than Tzarist regime in the whole 19th century. Stop this "Lenin wasn't so bad" nonsense.
RUBENSolol 1 year ago
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@RUBENSolol care to back that up?
almanacofsleep 6 months ago
Lenin? This guy Green is quoting Lenin as a force for peace? Oh man...
ColtBarrettUSA 2 years ago