Christopher Hitchens on Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ghostwriters (2/4) (1997)

[feindhortmit]

Keep in mind that Dickens was prejudiced towards America because some Americans stole his work, published it and never paid him a penny. Plus ca change, we dispise the Chinese for that today.

[themanfromutopia1]

Go ed Hitch I think ye kite gave them a smack in the boolags.Sum old baigs are faigull of shaigit.De kite on thaigem old fuaigkers was bril.Keaigep fuaigking wit der skulls.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[mrsthursday]

say what you want about Hitchins he was always upfront and honest in his views and he was on point in any discussion. Unlike every other interview these days, I never got the feeling he had a hidden agenda, he had his opinions and screw the consequences.

[VideoGameCoupons]

nice clips.. keep it up thanks for sharing ..

[JT2012a]

RIP Christopher Hitchens

[hammertapping]

@JT2012a i agree, if you mean ROT in peace.

[BandWagon1987]

@hammertapping Even if you meant that as an insult, that's exactly what he will do, and you will too.

[hammertapping]

hitchens was was always a hack, superficial and derivative . no originality or scholarship

[hammertapping]

@CurzonRoad whether i am a hack etc does not matter bc i don't pretend i am the opposite of those.

on the other hand,

while hitchens, always was a superficial and derivative hack, with no originality or scholarship, he and his idiotic groupies(u one?) think and pretend he is opposite of those things.

show me anything of his that shows originality, depth, or scholarship.

he in fact smelt not 20th or even 19th, but of 18th century old hat.

good riddance!

[hammertapping]

@CurzonRoad "why"? why not? lol

why not expose a hitchens the fraud and pop the groupie bubbles (in this case the groupies are usually typical western liberal idiots, at various ages). its fun!

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"finest writers" !? groupie indeed. lol

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as i said i am yet to see any original, deep, scholarly (and even beautiful) anything from hitchens. groupies are free to offer examples here.

[CurzonRoad]

@hammertapping

You really haven't a clue, do you? 

[bbdupon]

Dickens gets a bad rap for that book in my view. He called it the way he saw it, like a good journalist should. He found slavery monsterous and he was underimpressed by American politics and the base character of some on the frontier. Unlike what Mr Hitchens said, Dickens travelled for five months all the way down the Ohio and Mississippi River basin the the frontier outside St. Louis. Not bad for 1842!

[TheJbach]

Tocqueville is much cited yet today, I think, because his overall perception of America is positive as well as thoughtful. He is a highly gifted writer, well-educated, cultured, and quite sensible to the realities of both history and human nature. A gentleman and a Christian, whose literary expressiveness is reflective and imbued with hope. I have Democracy In America at my bedside, where it has been for years... as I love the personality and character of it's author. God is goodness!!!

[thegreatestbak3]

fantastic. Thanks again. Pleased that you continue to put up Hitchens on C-Span. It's like candy.

[jeremyshambles]

fascinating videos, thanks very much for your efforts in sharing them, cheers from san diego