Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose 06-Jun-03 (Part 3)

[drfoxcourt]

Wow. Hitch says he doesn't know about the bias of cable news! The integrity of the man is outstanding. When he doesn't know, he says "I don't know."

[Entropy56]

Charley Rose is in a homosexual relationship with Christopher. You won't hear about it in the main stream media.

[whiterat83]

Ha, I love Christopher, but Charlie does seem to have a massive boner for him. Can't say I blame him though.

[mrw21]

I have a boner for Hitchens.

[peakzero]

@mrw21 hahaha :D

[mjn76]

Alterman does not believe the media is liberal because it's not liberal enough to his taste. Anyone who denies that there is shameless and blatant liberal bias in the media is simply blind or uninformed.

[solidarity2205]

@mjn76 I think you should watch "Manufacturing consent" from Noam Chomsky.

[shamayaify]

@solidarity2205 Chomsky is all that is wrong with liberals who hide behind consent instead of standing for something!

[robi2000]

Wow at 9:35 he simply admits that Conservatives are more oranized and better at getting their point across than Liberals. Well i'd say that's because most liberals want to live off the backs of conservatives hard work

[robi2000]

The one thing Charlie too often does is interupt his guests when they're making their point

[jeaves17]

Hitchen's final line is hilarious. "I just don't watch enough of it. Maybe that's the answer." Read Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television".

[sanjocal]

No one has a snowball's chance in hell of talking over Hitchens.

[richardcadbury]

Rose is a very good moderator.

[bears132]

eric alterman is a bitch

[bebeinpa]

He's like a stuttering school-boy!

[Bastardozer]

it's too bad then that they are kinda friends, eh?

[jeaves17]

He's actually in favor of the US and all responsible nations intervening against dictatorial regimes. If you listen to the very beginning of this interview he makes the point that he was for overthrowing Saddam in 1991 when we could have easily accomplished that task. He championed this precisely because it would have been the right thing to do.

[soapfiction]

Overwhelmingly Conservative? All they've got on cable is FOX News. I wouldn't call CNN conservative (though they have some people who lean that way), or MSNBC, the home of Keith Olbermann, for that matter. The liberal side still has a huge edge in the media.

[Bastardozer]

excuse me, but conservative politicians and a generally conservative temperament has always held greater sway at cnn, whilst fox was always a joke and a propaganda outfit. msnbc may be center-left following this last election, but tucker carlson and joe scarborough were just as prominent as the moderate mathhews and liberal olbermanns of the network.

[blatspanner]

not many people seem to know this,but the term 'neo-con' has been used for decades as an abbreviation of 'neolithic condom',an insider's phrase meaning 'sustenance of the modern order'. Howzabout that?

[richardcadbury]

yeah, by you and about 4 other people. That's probably the worst meme ever.

[blatspanner]

what the fuck are you talking about?

[soapfiction]

Being anti-fascist does not make one a neocon.

As for Dennis Miller, that was an underhanded move by Alterman. Miller is a comedian, and thus an entertainer, not a historian or scholar. So, naturally, he wouldn't know as much about the situation in the middle east as Alterman. Hitchens, on the other hand, has been at work longer than Alterman, and clearly knows more about it.

[bernie4366]

Alterman is devastating to any neocon willing to talk to him face to face. The absolute meltdown of Dennis Miller v. Alterman has got to be one of the greatest TV moments of all time.

[jeaves17]

Alterman is a whining ponce. And where is there a neo-con in this interview. Surely you're not suggesting Hitchens is a neo-con. He is an anti-facist.

[Freshhhhh1982]

I agree with you 100%. Hitchens is still left wing its just the rest of the left have lost their fucking minds.

[zigzagbigbag]

I cant seem to find that show on youtube, anywhere else I might be able to view it? Thanks

[DirtinSky]

Finally! Mr. Hitchens got sick of mr. alterman's constant interruptions and silenced him so he could conclude his statement. Bravo. oh, and I find his observations on Iraq rather revealing. That war truly did began 16 years ago.

[tfustudios]

It's great to see Eric Alterman put Mr. Hitchins in his place. And CRUSH the neo-con stupidity once and for all!

Hallelujah!!

[jeaves17]

you must be drunk