Christopher Hitchens vs. Pat Buchanan Part 1: Bosnia and NAFTA (1993)

[TheHoosierHelen]

Miss you Hitch! Still enjoying your past videos & debates. RIP!

[235236468]

Hitchens was an elite puppet scumbag

[knightschwartz]

buchanan was braver and more honest. hitchens was more of social climber.

[regoryadilloh]

What video were you watching "@mattojorojo" - dolt!

[ArticulatingMadnessY]

The top two comments look awkward now.

[rebreh1029]

The arc of Christopher Hitchens career went from devout Marxist to neoconservative apologist 

[JadeTomZ]

why do you dishonestly intentionally mislabel this clip??

[EST0PA]

Turns out Buchanan was right about Nafta

[BorislavX]

Both are brilliant...

[mattojorojo]

Pat Buchanan is a rube. A shill. A scam.

Chris was a asset to our society.

[Craigmin]

@mattojorojo Google "Morality - Trotskyite vs. Christian"

Buchanan gives Hitch another well deserved spanking.

[KinkAlfred]

Hitch, it good to have had you on this planet. Goodbye.

[ryukXsayu27]

@KinkAlfred He stil is on this planet. To say he isn't would be going against his beliefs.

[sharkbait430]

Into the books as a legend. Thanks Hitch, for everything.

[knightschwartz]

Two of our best pundits. Buchanan more brave and honest and patriotic. Hitchens more funny and lyrical. Hitchens is a internationalist who wants to use the US army as world police force. Buchanan is an American patriot.

[Theocrasuck]

@knightschwartz Buchanan is a nationalistic rube. He was a Nixon shill and is a national disgrace. You are obviously a tool for the Republican party.

[IrminC]

Can't wait for you to die Hitch and burn in hell with your heroes, Lenin & Trotsky, you Marxist scumbag.

[genxtargetmarket]

@IrminC

Classy.

[cholerymorbilus]

@IrminC I can't wait to join him-- along with countless other heroes (Franklin, Jefferson, Einstein, etc.) Have fun in heaven with all the pedophiles and grifters and drones like yourself (who wouldn't be fit company under any circumstance, as far as I can see).

[IrminC]

@cholerymorbilus Good riddance then. Hitchens does not fall in line with any of those names you mentioned. You're a drone who buys into anti-Christian propaganda from the Liberal establishment ripe with such behavior and perversions.

[cholerymorbilus]

@IrminC Sorry you missed the point-- those are people who did not accept Jesus as their savior, and are thus going to Hell. Am I mistaken? Or is this more 'propaganda' that I've fallen victim to. I love that anything contradicting the Bible is 'propaganda.'

[IrminC]

@cholerymorbilus I don't think anything you said contradicted the Bible. I never even claimed to be Christian. Except for Franklin who did indeed like to pound the virtue of young maidens those men were by and large culturally Christian. And to pretend they would somehow fall in line with a Neo-Con Trotskyte who chooses to associate with an anti-Western, anti-Freedom ideology which killed over 80 million Russian Christians is sickening. You were forced to go to Sunday School - get over it.

[cholerymorbilus]

@IrminC Sadly, my very simple point was still missed. 

[PaytonFu]

Christopher has recanted his pro NAFTA stance many times.....politics is ever changing and so are people's views on it. To make statements now based on politics then is short sighted....that said NAFTA is a huge cause of global suppression, big business agenda's and the suppression of the working and poor class people's of this planet!

[christo930]

This was about a year before the beginning of the best economic times in decades. At the time, everybody was so pessimistic and within 2 years of this date, everyone forgot all that pessimism. I can only hope we are going to enter another "good time" soon. I'm tired of the great recession.

[TheBinary123]

Get well soon .. we need you

[JoeJones3001]

"Anyone could beat Clinton" :L

[pkpapers]

Hitchens endorses NAFTA. Thus Hitchens endorses Big Business totalitarianism -- with dumbed-down leftist thugs to enforce the Big Banker agenda -- as usual.

[CaseRed0605]

@pkpapers Unfair. This interview was done in the year NAFTA was debated and part of the mainstream. I doubt highly Hitchens would have a similar opinion now.

[91dodgespiritrt]

A title for some future biography of Mr. Buchanan:

"PAT BUCHANAN - RIGHT as USUAL"

[100busynumbers]

why is this hitchens VS buchanan? they agree on almost everything here

[scitops]

I think NAFTA has been devastating for the American economy. However this vid shows why it passed. The people who opposed it like Buchanan were just a bunch of conspiracy theorists.

[mbdulka]

Buchanan was the man -- If he would have gotten rid of the Catholicism (religion), he would have been perfect and might have been president.

[moobie1010]

my god those two guys are smart as hell. authentic intellectuals with a total grasp of an ocean of facts. damn the past is awesome on youtube,

[OrthodoxLion]

Go to hell Hitchens !!!

[kansaimagic]

@OrthodoxLion

Hell would be a much better place than what your heavenly father has in store for you. Thank you god thank you god over and over again for eternity. We know that there is no heaven or hell. The fact that you actually want that means that you need to consult a neurologist. Damn that neurologist might have the same imaginary friend as you! Seek an education instead.

religionfactreport(dotcom)

[ahallidie]

Yes, get well soon Christopher Hitchens.

[leafs2574]

wow, hitch has never looked so incorrect (retrospectively)

the US and NATO along with the UN guaranteed a victory for serbias enemies

[inademv]

Wow, Buchanan should just come out as a John Burcher. It's insanely obvious that he's a member.

[skedaddleMLS]

heh, 5:50 hitchens spots the tea party movement in its embryo state.

[marktrade88]

Ross Perot is the picture of Dorian Gray. Hahaha!

[eqsmooth]

The look of contempt in Hitchens' eyes (early on) tells it all. He has told Brian Lamb that Kissinger is the only person he truly hates but it is obvious & clear here that Christopher finds this man repugnant and beneath him. Big mistake for Buchanan to mention Kissinger. Nobody read Obama's health care bill either.

[lac3y1988]

Love ya Hitch. Get well soon.

[sebucwerd]

@lac3y1988 hitch won't get better.

[Theocrasuck]

@sebucwerd Unfortunately not.

[firefox8192]

THIS REMINDS ME OF THE GOOD COP BAD COP ROUTINE

[Vostoek]

Get well soon Hitch

[kilija383]

@Vostoek chirstopher hitchens probably brought his illness on himself by smoking too much and drinking like a fish.

[Arakon1]

@kilija383 He's said as much himself. No harm in a little human sympathy though :)

[southpore1]

@Vostoek Have another swig of Johnnie Walker Black, douchebag! 

[SmelOdies]

Does this get heated, as the title implies?  So far, no.