Every time Hitchens speaks, it's like the other three are hearing these stories for the first time. It's as if he's conducting a current affairs class for them.
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@Aenima8427 Hitchens hated Bush as an individual, but he revered Bush's position as President of the United States (the leader of the free world). Hitchens differed with the way it happened, but he 100% supported the removal of Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Iraq. He was a fighter against repression and the US is the antithesis to that. Thank goodness many people outside the US still believe this, even as Americans second-guess the importance of our country.....my 2 cents
@blastsummit my theory is he dislikes the morons who pretend they're smarter than bush. he also thinks bush may be dyslexic, as in, not entirely idiotic as people make him out to be.
I watch Real Time every Friday, and i must say, it does annoy me to a certain extent the mindless clapping that goes on after every liberal, pro-democrat, anti-conservative comment is made. Can be annoying.
Weather you agree or disagree with Hitch on the Iraq War, he will always have answer for everything you throw at him, he wont stutter or hesitate he will have an answer.
Did you even look into the issue before making up your mind? Where was one of Al Qaida's top men, maybe even the number two man, to be found just prior to the invasion? In Iraq, under the auspices of Saddam. You rant about how foolish people are for considering his words in a way that shows you haven't examined the facts. You'd be more comfortable on a Moore video, I think.
Norman416, its one and the same. Supporting the war, but removing the elements that dont suit us isnt acceptable. The principle is wrong because A) there were alternatives B) War is War. The Bushs' factual record is:Desert storm as a mess. the sanctions/embargo that followed killed children in Iraq. The WMDs were dreamt up. The insuing war extirpated a nation and bankrupted the mighty USA. Net total = 0! Sorry, what was the principle here?!
Hitchens was no infallable. The guy was a radical, with his own agenda, like some of his adversaries!He was brilliant! but supported war? Perhaps slightly misguided.These people who hang on to his every word drive me nuts and show a sophomoric mindset.Mahr put it best, there was no such element as AlQaida (or equivalent) in iraq, at any time when saddam was around. the madman kept a clean house in that sense.For Chris to Hitch on to that point is outragous and arrogant.God Bless him
@Halcyon1234567891 He never supported war, he supported what he perceived to be the fight against tyranny in all forms and removing despots who threatened the safety and peace of others
Around 19:00, when Maher start doing the prop comedy, notice they keep showing the other two guests laughing their asses off, but they don't show Hitchens once. I assume it's because he's not laughing at all. I just wish that they HAD shown it. Dumb guy laughing, other dumb guy laughing, and then Hitchens, not laughing, with a menacing glare.
@DesBlackmore i absolutely love Htichens, and have a world of respect for his intellect and ideas, but in terms of his cancer, he did do it to himself. No one forced him to smoke 10 packs a day.
Hitchens brought up a strong point about being on the side of the Iranians who fight against a theocracy, and NO ONE CLAPPED. Hitchens was right on the give those a-holes the finger.
@stupidfatuglybastard - I disagree as well, yet he seems to genuinely believe AlQuaeda had (some level of) support from Iraq. Belief based on what? I don´t know, but he does not seem dishonest, rather he seems fool in believing that.
Honesty, however you think about conflict US/Iraq/Afghanistan, it's impossible to debate Hitchens on it. The man makes ("made, damnit", right) a point of studying the middle east peoples, cultures, religious cults and governments. He's been down there several times and has had his eye on the area between the gulf war and this one, where (as there was no conflict there then of any international drama) everyone else could care less. It may not be PC, but Hitch was always HARD CORE on his sources.
I would argue that his abrasive personality was his greatest handicap - people are more easily won over if you don't put them on the defensive before you deliver your arguments.
Don't you think Hitchens was playing devil's advocate, either just for his own amusement or because disagreeing with most everything Maher said was his agreed role on the panel? After all, he made the discussion WAY more interesting than it would have been without him. Although Cleland and Nasser (sp?) were excellent Hitchens spiced it up. Besides, he's a self-described "contrarian". How else would such a man conduct himself? He's brilliant.
However, American secularism is highly passive-agressive. On one hand it says that religion is a matter of personal freedom, yet on the other hand, the most draconian laws get pushed to congress which only exist because the Christian fundamentalist drive to dominion. So, I fully respect what the Hitchenator said in counter to Bill, but no matter how a Republican may attest to make laws irrespective of religion, religion is so often at the heart of everything they do.
@UberNoodleX You are so so right & so we see this horrible hypocrisy - Christian fundamentalists want no abortion yet they don't want to spend money on the social services the resulting babies require due to the overwhelmingly impoverished parent(s). They want to protect the fetus but once that fetus leaves the mother's body, it's on it's own. They cry "personal freedom" when their agenda, esp guns, is repulsed yet they want to control the most personal aspects of our lives.
@UberNoodleX They get so many votes because the Republican machine, with such as Karl Rove, are brilliant at whipping up their base with their drops of poison i.e. "death panels" & they're the ones who vote. Despite the relatively small audience who consume Fox "News", their ignorance & anger propels them disproportionately. They don't care if their freedoms are reduced so long as they can control those they hate & resent - intellectuals including scientists, immigrants, uppity ethnics, women
The world would be in much better shape if Saddam Hussein was still neutralizing Iran and purging religious nuts from his bailiwick. He knew he could stay in "power" as long as he did nothing to really piss us off. Getting rid of him was about the dumbest of the many dumb things done by el Jumbo Dumbo, George Dubya Bush.
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@zzyzx0788 actually should be glad that people with respect and such go with passion towards their point, the question is do they accept if the other is correct. Disagreement and strong debate/argument should be wished for, just do it in civilized manner.
@Saebeck32 Because Hitchens is legit, as in, not a team player, he "defends" and or "attacks" people or policies because of what he knows to be true or because of a personal philosophy, not because he sees himself as part of team A against team B.
Bill Maher's audience are sheeple; it's so sad to see unthinking automotons like that. Also, Maher should check his ego. He gets all butt-hurt when someone disagrees with him and then he spouts some "folk wisdom" that actually makes the oppositions' point even more clear lol ^_^
This must have been aired before Hitchens got really famous. People seam to go against him alot. He even flipped of the audience at a time. I love Hitch!!!! He's the man!!!! 12:00 XD
I like Bill until someone corrects him. You can tell his blood just boils when anyone corrects him. He needs to check his own ego sometimes, be willing to admit he's wrong, and most importantly keep his audience in check.
@flystix sometimes you like a person because his views reflect yours. but you need to admit that mahr is an idiot first and foremost, so whether he's right or wrong doesn't matter. hitchens is more sentient and lucid than mahr could ever dream to be. but most importantly, effortlessly entertaining.
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Its funny watching them talk about a "zipper bomb" guy and ending up with people having to check everything, then we get the underwear bomber and now people have to check everything...Hitchens can see the future!
Also the mujahideen who was headed by osama bin laden was the main force fighting the Soviets and the CIA heavily funded them but they didnt want it to get traced. So they funnelled the money to the ISI who then gave it to the mujahideen. It was hundreds of millions of dollars used to buy weapons and also sorts of things that they are using on our troops now ! And yes the mujahideen later turned into al qaeda....
Ughhhhh I love Hitchens when it comes to religion but hes dumb as a fucking stump when it comes to politics. I'm a huge history buff and he is very ignorant when it comes to the history of the middle east. We have been fucking around with their politics for the last 60 years. We were the ones who put saddam hussien in power because he was Anti-communism and this was in the mid 80's when the russians were trying to take over afghanistan.
@JG129 Thank you for introducing yourself as a huge history buff. Also congratulations mentioning "we" (you mean the CIA right?) brought Saddam to power. Your fragmented wikipedian knowledge would surely stand up in a debate with Hitchens, one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.
Bush was the first president to have a Master's degree. Anybody who has seen the video with him as governor and him as president next to each other knows he was faking it (=being stupid). People think it's adorable and want to have a beer with him. If Obama was as arrogant as he was smart, nobody (the midwest that is) would have voted for him either.
@CelestialWoodway First president with rich influential family members. Really? Anyway, I had this in mind: watch?v=JvknGT8W5jA
Thinking he's stupid instead of evil is just placing blame elsewhere (Dick Cheney, conspiracy theories instead of something we can all agree on -not that I'm against institutional analysis-, ...). He looks like somebody you'll have a beer with because that's the image he cultivated.
Hmmmmm....this is wishful thinking but I wish that we could stop making weapons of mass destruction once and for all. Like the saying goes "lets sharpen our minds & not our swords." More hate just creates more hate. More weapons create more weapons. I just want all wars to stop. I'm so fed up with the killings & the anger & etc.
@susiejet Yeah I agree he is usually a brilliant man but he's stupid when it comes to politics. The Iraq war has now killed more than 1 million Iraqi civilians so I'd definitly compare Bush to hitler...
...maybe with the nation's first _female_ president? (That seens to be an avenue nobody's thought of yet!) I mean, this fight's FAR too fucking important to have anyone short of Nancy Pelosi (arguably the most effective Progressive politician in recent memory) in that office! Seriously, she would be the like second coming of FDR (to Obama's Herbert Hoover), ONLY *BETTER*!
...maybe with the nation's first _female_ president? (That seens to be an avenue nobody's thought of yet!) I mean, this fight's FAR too fucking important to have anyone short of Nancy Pelosi (arguably the most effective Progressive politician in recent memory) in that office! Seriously, she would be the like second coming of FDR (to Obama's Herbert Hoover), ONLY *BETTER*!
Well, tho he may deny it _now_, he fuckin' ran as that, and frankly, I'm fuckin' pissed that the only "Hope" and "Change" he was REALLY promising was his change of Party and the "hope" that he'd actually fight!
Quite frankly, the ONLY way Obama can save himself in my eyes is if he runs fiercely on "Taxing the Rich" like Keith Olbermann said he was goin' to Friday night. ANYTHING short of that, and we should primary the bastard out!
I think Doug Stanhope said it best; "To be as drunk and brilliant as Christopher H. would make me jizz all over myself in self satisfaction." Its so beautiful watching him express his obviously insightful and educated views, while still being a British elitist cunt where applicable.
The audience doesn't understand anything that's being discussed, they just hear "Bush" and "dumb" in the same sentence and they clap like trained monkeys.
Yeah, it's shamelessly stealing plays #1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 from the conservative handbook, but even progressives like to cheer for the side once in a while.
When was this? 2008? Maher challenging Hitchens on facts is so ridiculous. Hitch goes to all the places he talks & writes about BEFORE he talks about them. Don't challenge Hitchens. Dying of cancer, w/half his brain tied around his back he'll win every debate. Maher is not always to be taken seriously. He is a comedian after all. He is also a firm Zionist. No one should allow us to be handcuffed by any middle eastern country. Hitchens is so serious. Bush is not dumb, he is anti-intellectual.
Hitchens is smarter than everyone in that room combined. Maher's crowd are bunch of retarded college kids who voted the current Manchurian, affirmative-action president into office
@DeepHa Affirmative Action? Editor & 1st black President of Harvard Law Review. That was determined by affirmative action? 7 Supreme court Justices were presidents of that Law Review. Constitutional law professor at U. of Chicago? That was due to affirmative action? How did Bush get in & out of Yale and Harvard? His father. How did Cheney get into Yale? His wife worked for a powerful alumnus. How did Cheney do? He flunked out twice. Obama was brainwashed into being a communist assassin? Really?
@dontleademsomuch Umm, there's an applause sign. Applauding and laughing are done on cue. People are told to be there hours before the show starts so they can get a tutorial on audience etiquette.
Only Hitch could flip off the crowd on National TV and have them love him when he's done. We lost a great one last Dec.
HARPERDDH 16 hours ago
I disagree, Iraq was a important place to conquer.
philosophergenius 3 days ago
Hitchens is kicking ass at 9:30
tylerstark93 5 days ago
Every time Hitchens speaks, it's like the other three are hearing these stories for the first time. It's as if he's conducting a current affairs class for them.
NeoConsREvil 1 week ago
Hitchens was pro war thats why he supported Bush
mzanelli89 1 week ago
@mzanelli89 Incorrect. Read his work for his positions.
wobrien007 2 hours ago
Hitchens predicts the underwear bomb attempt at 22:30
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tigersforchrist 2 weeks ago
Hitch was a man with balls! R.I.P.!
ZobaK1 2 weeks ago
why was hitchens defending bush so vehemently?
blastsummit 2 weeks ago
@blastsummit
It has nothing to do with bush
do some more searching on his arguments about the iraq war
Aenima8427 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos 7
@Aenima8427 he was defending him, are you deaf? and as it turned out, iraq war was contrived by neocons and illegal
blastsummit 2 weeks ago
@blastsummit
I stand by my comment
take some time watching other videos and read some of the articles about the war from him
Aenima8427 2 weeks ago 5
@Aenima8427 he was defending bush himself when bush was being ridiculed. prove me wrong
blastsummit 2 weeks ago
@blastsummit he is driven by his contempt for the radical extremists in the middle east
b4rf3r 1 week ago
@Aenima8427 Hitchens hated Bush as an individual, but he revered Bush's position as President of the United States (the leader of the free world). Hitchens differed with the way it happened, but he 100% supported the removal of Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Iraq. He was a fighter against repression and the US is the antithesis to that. Thank goodness many people outside the US still believe this, even as Americans second-guess the importance of our country.....my 2 cents
wobrien007 22 hours ago
@blastsummit my theory is he dislikes the morons who pretend they're smarter than bush. he also thinks bush may be dyslexic, as in, not entirely idiotic as people make him out to be.
zackhanscom 1 week ago
I watch Real Time every Friday, and i must say, it does annoy me to a certain extent the mindless clapping that goes on after every liberal, pro-democrat, anti-conservative comment is made. Can be annoying.
UtopiaMinor666 3 weeks ago 2
@UtopiaMinor666 i feel the same, even tho i my self is pro-democrat.
Bamma1985 3 weeks ago
Weather you agree or disagree with Hitch on the Iraq War, he will always have answer for everything you throw at him, he wont stutter or hesitate he will have an answer.
colemartinst123 1 month ago
Carlin and Hitchens; My two sources of inspiration.
NoGodsNoOverlords 1 month ago 5
@NoGodsNoOverlords Same for me. Dawkins occasionally makes the list as well.
LiftingForLife 1 month ago
@NoGodsNoOverlords
so true!
we lost two great people when we lost george carlin and christopher hitchens.
LadyScorpio39 3 weeks ago 5
Hitchens was the only present time intellectual that I ever encountered in our day and age. He will be sorely missed.
lifeschild1 1 month ago
Hopefully, one day we can get rid of all diseases. I say death to cancer!
JadorrionMoore 1 month ago
Oh man, Hitchens shits on the audience here.
rocknrolljunkie3 1 month ago
i love you hitch. gone to soon
momobear67 1 month ago
Halcyon,
Did you even look into the issue before making up your mind? Where was one of Al Qaida's top men, maybe even the number two man, to be found just prior to the invasion? In Iraq, under the auspices of Saddam. You rant about how foolish people are for considering his words in a way that shows you haven't examined the facts. You'd be more comfortable on a Moore video, I think.
RakeeshJ4 1 month ago 4
Norman416, its one and the same. Supporting the war, but removing the elements that dont suit us isnt acceptable. The principle is wrong because A) there were alternatives B) War is War. The Bushs' factual record is:Desert storm as a mess. the sanctions/embargo that followed killed children in Iraq. The WMDs were dreamt up. The insuing war extirpated a nation and bankrupted the mighty USA. Net total = 0! Sorry, what was the principle here?!
Halcyon1234567891 1 month ago
Hitchens was no infallable. The guy was a radical, with his own agenda, like some of his adversaries!He was brilliant! but supported war? Perhaps slightly misguided.These people who hang on to his every word drive me nuts and show a sophomoric mindset.Mahr put it best, there was no such element as AlQaida (or equivalent) in iraq, at any time when saddam was around. the madman kept a clean house in that sense.For Chris to Hitch on to that point is outragous and arrogant.God Bless him
Halcyon1234567891 1 month ago
@Halcyon1234567891 He never supported war, he supported what he perceived to be the fight against tyranny in all forms and removing despots who threatened the safety and peace of others
cryjesuscry 1 month ago
Whether you agree with Hitchens or not, you have to love his smug smile. Rest in peace.
ShmoothBall 1 month ago 3
Around 19:00, when Maher start doing the prop comedy, notice they keep showing the other two guests laughing their asses off, but they don't show Hitchens once. I assume it's because he's not laughing at all. I just wish that they HAD shown it. Dumb guy laughing, other dumb guy laughing, and then Hitchens, not laughing, with a menacing glare.
Tangerinian 2 months ago
@DesBlackmore i absolutely love Htichens, and have a world of respect for his intellect and ideas, but in terms of his cancer, he did do it to himself. No one forced him to smoke 10 packs a day.
kartikvenkat 2 months ago 3
I respect Hitchens support for the war because he wants fanatical Islam destroyed, Bush only wanted oil
clayton9m 2 months ago
i cant understand how hitchens is such aan strong supporter of the war and the bush administration....
stesta90 2 months ago
@stesta90 Great man are sometimes inconsistent ... i suppose. He might also think that Islamist terrorism is worse than christian "terrorism".
paperfreeck 2 months ago
that finger was priceless 12:12 and god i wished for so long that somebody would do that
shahroor18 2 months ago 4
Hitchens brought up a strong point about being on the side of the Iranians who fight against a theocracy, and NO ONE CLAPPED. Hitchens was right on the give those a-holes the finger.
holdenc96 2 months ago 3
@stupidfatuglybastard I don't know where I stand on the war, but I can't see how you can say he is being dishonest.
roadkill1001 2 months ago
Bill Maher is such a lightweight, pseudo intellectual. His simple minded, emotion-begging, micro-myopic pronouncements are the real joke.
What a dopey contrast to an intellectual giant like Christopher Hitchens!
garyjz61 2 months ago
The whole israel asskissing is disgusting. The war crimes Israel commit every day towards Palestine is sickening!
Eroo5 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
Dude stfu
I am not responsible for what america did or does
you are not very intelligent are you
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
your assumption that the UN is a good organization is a bit ignorant
you sir are the one with the tin foil hat
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
lol really
for one thing I do believe the United States Has been and still is a Fascist government
Again please use some common sense
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
it is clear you dont know Hitchens full opinion on this is
do some more research before acting like you know what you are talking about
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
dude you are putting faith in an organization run by the worlds tyrants
That is what the UN is now
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
Ever heard of sanctions
Iraq had multiple times shown it was dangerous in an international sense
it was the UN who should of taken Saddam out because of his crimes
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
Clearly your mind has been brainwashed
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard check out this episode of south park
it really can clear things up
s07e01-im-a-little-bit-country
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
that is what the the UN is supposed to do correct?
well I would say that they dont do there job
that is why we had to defy the UN to go to Iraq
I would propose that both parts wanted it
they just used the current administration to put blame on
it is called politics so please use common sense
Aenima8427 2 months ago
both partys wanted the war
at least the people who were in power
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
dude seriously you have a lot of lies and propaganda in your head
there is no such thing as moral relativism
and the politics is also not helping things
please let all that go and start using common sense
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard ever heard of the UN?
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@Aenima8427
I suggest really looking into what he proposed
and stop going off of assumptions about his views
Aenima8427 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard - I disagree as well, yet he seems to genuinely believe AlQuaeda had (some level of) support from Iraq. Belief based on what? I don´t know, but he does not seem dishonest, rather he seems fool in believing that.
caviper1 2 months ago
@stupidfatuglybastard
regardless of the politics at home the fact that we got a cruel dictator off the backs of innocent people is something to be proud of
everything done after liberation is what is questionable
Aenima8427 2 months ago
Bill is sooooooo outclassed by Hitchens....
futbllwmn 2 months ago
can we please cure cancer soon...please
lafontaine13 2 months ago
RIP Christopher Hitchens.
shocktrauma85 2 months ago
Honesty, however you think about conflict US/Iraq/Afghanistan, it's impossible to debate Hitchens on it. The man makes ("made, damnit", right) a point of studying the middle east peoples, cultures, religious cults and governments. He's been down there several times and has had his eye on the area between the gulf war and this one, where (as there was no conflict there then of any international drama) everyone else could care less. It may not be PC, but Hitch was always HARD CORE on his sources.
CTyler84 2 months ago 3
7:22 "holy shit this guy is good"
virtuosochannel 2 months ago
The reason why Hitchens is (was. damn it.) so awesome is because he doesn't give a fuck about pleasing the crowd.
He's not even concerned about offending the crowd, like other attention seekers.
He's just doing his thing.
darkerforest 2 months ago 104
@darkerforest
Damn accurate if I dont say so myself
Aenima8427 2 months ago 3
@darkerforest One of the MANY reasons Mr. Hitchens was so awesome.
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@haithambisharat : Death cured Christ' Hitchens of his homosexuality. He hasn't buggered a man in a week.
procommenter 2 months ago
@darkerforest
I would argue that his abrasive personality was his greatest handicap - people are more easily won over if you don't put them on the defensive before you deliver your arguments.
Xanxei1 1 month ago
@darkerforest
so true.
an another thing i liked about hitchens was that he didnt flip-flop on his views.
LadyScorpio39 3 weeks ago
Money shot at 12:05
karnzkeltic 2 months ago
Christopher is GREAT!
vigen81 2 months ago
You will be remembered, Hitch.
TomasMikaX 2 months ago
can't believe he's gone, so sad.
sargentD808 2 months ago
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olliemcleod 2 months ago
Hitchens totally called it with the Zipper Bomber comment.
ArticulatingMadnessY 2 months ago
Hitchens at 5:25
Every time he's on the show he just baits the idiot audience.
AL52Dragon 2 months ago
Hitchens schools everyone in a debate! Get well soon Mr. Hitchens.
drprasad79 2 months ago
What does an audience member say at 4:27?
chrstnlmllr51 3 months ago
Don't you think Hitchens was playing devil's advocate, either just for his own amusement or because disagreeing with most everything Maher said was his agreed role on the panel? After all, he made the discussion WAY more interesting than it would have been without him. Although Cleland and Nasser (sp?) were excellent Hitchens spiced it up. Besides, he's a self-described "contrarian". How else would such a man conduct himself? He's brilliant.
chrstnlmllr51 3 months ago
However, American secularism is highly passive-agressive. On one hand it says that religion is a matter of personal freedom, yet on the other hand, the most draconian laws get pushed to congress which only exist because the Christian fundamentalist drive to dominion. So, I fully respect what the Hitchenator said in counter to Bill, but no matter how a Republican may attest to make laws irrespective of religion, religion is so often at the heart of everything they do.
UberNoodleX 3 months ago 4
@UberNoodleX You are so so right & so we see this horrible hypocrisy - Christian fundamentalists want no abortion yet they don't want to spend money on the social services the resulting babies require due to the overwhelmingly impoverished parent(s). They want to protect the fetus but once that fetus leaves the mother's body, it's on it's own. They cry "personal freedom" when their agenda, esp guns, is repulsed yet they want to control the most personal aspects of our lives.
chrstnlmllr51 3 months ago 3
@chrstnlmllr51 Indeed! yet if it's so transparent, why do they get so many votes? Who would vote to have their freedoms reduced?
UberNoodleX 3 months ago
@UberNoodleX They get so many votes because the Republican machine, with such as Karl Rove, are brilliant at whipping up their base with their drops of poison i.e. "death panels" & they're the ones who vote. Despite the relatively small audience who consume Fox "News", their ignorance & anger propels them disproportionately. They don't care if their freedoms are reduced so long as they can control those they hate & resent - intellectuals including scientists, immigrants, uppity ethnics, women
chrstnlmllr51 3 months ago 2
i still dont understand why zarqaqi being in iraq means saddam has ties to al qaeda and that we should invade the country.
redryan20000 3 months ago
so basically the crowd just claps American accents.... wow.
merrickwinter 3 months ago 2
@merrickwinter Well, Hitchens is speaking a foreign language.
UberNoodleX 3 months ago
The world would be in much better shape if Saddam Hussein was still neutralizing Iran and purging religious nuts from his bailiwick. He knew he could stay in "power" as long as he did nothing to really piss us off. Getting rid of him was about the dumbest of the many dumb things done by el Jumbo Dumbo, George Dubya Bush.
realveive 3 months ago
Wow... Bill was speechless. That's something I thought I would never see.
ubernaffa 3 months ago 4
Hitchens for president
Fanboyzz 3 months ago
@Fanboyzz You have to be born in the USA to be president sorry.
ExodusPessoa 3 months ago
@ExodusPessoa Our Prime Minister wasn't born in Australia, but she grew up and spent most of her life in my country. Perhaps the birther movement of the USA is holding back true multiculturalism.
UberNoodleX 3 months ago
I dont like seeing Hitchens and Maher at each others throats....makes me feel weird to see two people I respect getting so heated with each other
zzyzx0788 3 months ago 2
@zzyzx0788
I dont have the same respect for bill maher
He is such a douche
Like O'Reilly but worse
Aenima2784 3 months ago
@zzyzx0788 actually should be glad that people with respect and such go with passion towards their point, the question is do they accept if the other is correct. Disagreement and strong debate/argument should be wished for, just do it in civilized manner.
tiknoriumatyti 3 months ago
The way Hitchens gives the audience the finger is fucking priceless!
RandomVortex 4 months ago 37
@RandomVortex - How many times I have wanted to do that...
caviper1 2 months ago
@RandomVortex Ya, very un-intellectual lol.
paperfreeck 2 months ago
Saddam had no control of the Kurdish area of Iraq Hitch.
Tsnore 4 months ago
Bill maher sounded like a republican to em in this episode....
*sticks fingers in ears*
LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALAI CAN'T HEAR YOUR WELL SPOKEN ARGUMENTS BACKED UP BY HARD FACTSLALALALALALAL
TheJollynerd 4 months ago
That congress man is annoying. He has so many canned lines.
mixmastermeeks 4 months ago
Why on earth was Hitchens defending a moron like Bush?
Saebeck32 4 months ago
@Saebeck32 Because Hitchens is legit, as in, not a team player, he "defends" and or "attacks" people or policies because of what he knows to be true or because of a personal philosophy, not because he sees himself as part of team A against team B.
YesMaybeNope 3 months ago
Hitchens is way above their levels, intelligence wise. It's laughable
kennedyt 4 months ago 2
WHO THE FUCK HISSES THE HITCH?!?!?!
PUMKINMANforever 4 months ago 6
Bill Maher's audience are sheeple; it's so sad to see unthinking automotons like that. Also, Maher should check his ego. He gets all butt-hurt when someone disagrees with him and then he spouts some "folk wisdom" that actually makes the oppositions' point even more clear lol ^_^
HumaneAnon 4 months ago
4.00 to 4.05 Hitchens leaves the room in silence.
suckit69er 4 months ago
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This must have been aired before Hitchens got really famous. People seam to go against him alot. He even flipped of the audience at a time. I love Hitch!!!! He's the man!!!! 12:00 XD
mnemoniccourier 4 months ago
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mnemoniccourier 4 months ago
I like Bill until someone corrects him. You can tell his blood just boils when anyone corrects him. He needs to check his own ego sometimes, be willing to admit he's wrong, and most importantly keep his audience in check.
flystix 4 months ago 39
@flystix I agree. Though I have heard him keep his crowd in check
zzyzx0788 3 months ago
@flystix What drives me nuts is that Bill allows people to correct him EVEN WHEN HE'S RIGHT. However, he's too stoned/stunned to respond
manonthemount 3 months ago
@flystix sometimes you like a person because his views reflect yours. but you need to admit that mahr is an idiot first and foremost, so whether he's right or wrong doesn't matter. hitchens is more sentient and lucid than mahr could ever dream to be. but most importantly, effortlessly entertaining.
zackhanscom 2 months ago
@flystix Especially when he's attempting to argue with the late great Christopher Hitchens... Maher was SO out of his league.
Captainomni 2 months ago
i love how bill changes the subject after being hitchslapped
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lightandbeautiful 4 months ago
Its funny watching them talk about a "zipper bomb" guy and ending up with people having to check everything, then we get the underwear bomber and now people have to check everything...Hitchens can see the future!
calthopian 4 months ago
@Aenima8427
You don't actually think Obama is progressive or socially liberal do you? I am one, and most of his actions seem to say otherwise.
pbmdh 5 months ago 2
When Hitchen's speaks ... STFU and Iisten!!
joestudio901 5 months ago 3
We need Hitchens for at least another 50 years.
akallabror 5 months ago 3
bullfeathers lol
detahdomo 5 months ago
Also the mujahideen who was headed by osama bin laden was the main force fighting the Soviets and the CIA heavily funded them but they didnt want it to get traced. So they funnelled the money to the ISI who then gave it to the mujahideen. It was hundreds of millions of dollars used to buy weapons and also sorts of things that they are using on our troops now ! And yes the mujahideen later turned into al qaeda....
JG129 5 months ago
Ughhhhh I love Hitchens when it comes to religion but hes dumb as a fucking stump when it comes to politics. I'm a huge history buff and he is very ignorant when it comes to the history of the middle east. We have been fucking around with their politics for the last 60 years. We were the ones who put saddam hussien in power because he was Anti-communism and this was in the mid 80's when the russians were trying to take over afghanistan.
JG129 5 months ago 2
@JG129 Thank you for introducing yourself as a huge history buff. Also congratulations mentioning "we" (you mean the CIA right?) brought Saddam to power. Your fragmented wikipedian knowledge would surely stand up in a debate with Hitchens, one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.
lambofpaul 2 months ago
The audience makes me want to hit my head with a hammer. Over. And. Over.
Astrapsody 6 months ago
northern iraq wasnt under hussein control...
robertk2007 6 months ago
Bush was the first president to have a Master's degree. Anybody who has seen the video with him as governor and him as president next to each other knows he was faking it (=being stupid). People think it's adorable and want to have a beer with him. If Obama was as arrogant as he was smart, nobody (the midwest that is) would have voted for him either.
ReX342 6 months ago
@ReX342 Rich infuential family members don't earn degrees Daddy buys it for them.
CelestialWoodway 5 months ago
@CelestialWoodway First president with rich influential family members. Really? Anyway, I had this in mind: watch?v=JvknGT8W5jA
Thinking he's stupid instead of evil is just placing blame elsewhere (Dick Cheney, conspiracy theories instead of something we can all agree on -not that I'm against institutional analysis-, ...). He looks like somebody you'll have a beer with because that's the image he cultivated.
ReX342 5 months ago
@ReX342 Yeah, that's right.
UberNoodleX 3 months ago
bill maher vs christopher hitchens
AlamEssa 6 months ago
Hmmmmm....this is wishful thinking but I wish that we could stop making weapons of mass destruction once and for all. Like the saying goes "lets sharpen our minds & not our swords." More hate just creates more hate. More weapons create more weapons. I just want all wars to stop. I'm so fed up with the killings & the anger & etc.
susiejet 6 months ago 2
For once, I don't agree with Hitchens when he said that nobody is smarter than the president.
susiejet 6 months ago
@susiejet he was talking of the people in the room, did u not see him argue with them? open your mind a littlle
british123able 6 months ago
@susiejet Yeah I agree he is usually a brilliant man but he's stupid when it comes to politics. The Iraq war has now killed more than 1 million Iraqi civilians so I'd definitly compare Bush to hitler...
JG129 5 months ago
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@ScottBrown666
...maybe with the nation's first _female_ president? (That seens to be an avenue nobody's thought of yet!) I mean, this fight's FAR too fucking important to have anyone short of Nancy Pelosi (arguably the most effective Progressive politician in recent memory) in that office! Seriously, she would be the like second coming of FDR (to Obama's Herbert Hoover), ONLY *BETTER*!
macgeek2004 6 months ago
@ScottBrown666
...maybe with the nation's first _female_ president? (That seens to be an avenue nobody's thought of yet!) I mean, this fight's FAR too fucking important to have anyone short of Nancy Pelosi (arguably the most effective Progressive politician in recent memory) in that office! Seriously, she would be the like second coming of FDR (to Obama's Herbert Hoover), ONLY *BETTER*!
macgeek2004 6 months ago
@ScottBrown666
Well, tho he may deny it _now_, he fuckin' ran as that, and frankly, I'm fuckin' pissed that the only "Hope" and "Change" he was REALLY promising was his change of Party and the "hope" that he'd actually fight!
Quite frankly, the ONLY way Obama can save himself in my eyes is if he runs fiercely on "Taxing the Rich" like Keith Olbermann said he was goin' to Friday night. ANYTHING short of that, and we should primary the bastard out!
macgeek2004 6 months ago
@Aenima8427 Are you implying that Obama is a progressive social liberal? ha, he had me fooled.
ScottBrown666 6 months ago
I think Doug Stanhope said it best; "To be as drunk and brilliant as Christopher H. would make me jizz all over myself in self satisfaction." Its so beautiful watching him express his obviously insightful and educated views, while still being a British elitist cunt where applicable.
Deltidsgorilla 6 months ago
@Deltidsgorilla did he say that at one of his shows or in an interview, is it on youtube? doug stanhope is the man
trollingforpoo 5 months ago
@trollingforpoo Its in a interview from Helsinki, he is quite drunk :P Its on youtube : watch?v=_tr1kslpy-Y
Deltidsgorilla 5 months ago
Oh yeah, pause at 0:00 for Dawkins!
rpsmith014 7 months ago
@Evan42881-True, but the way Hitch lambasts them for applauding on cue is great.
Firemanyoz 7 months ago
goddamn idiots - you should fight what causes terrorism.....
TZMrazvitie 7 months ago
This was great, opposing views, audience interaction, stimulating discussion and humour to boot! What more could you ask for? Brilliant.
Firemanyoz 7 months ago 2
@Firemanyoz The audience gets really annoying.
Evan42881 7 months ago
@Aenima8427 republicans still won the election--obama and liberal have hardly anything in common, unfortunately
pawndominance1 7 months ago
the rest?
ZRMDMK 8 months ago
The audience doesn't understand anything that's being discussed, they just hear "Bush" and "dumb" in the same sentence and they clap like trained monkeys.
shadowsheik8611 8 months ago
@shadowsheik8611 "they clap like trained monkeys."
Yeah, it's shamelessly stealing plays #1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 from the conservative handbook, but even progressives like to cheer for the side once in a while.
PatchesRips 8 months ago
Why I love Hitchens, in a nutshell: 5:24
cotchery 8 months ago
@cotchery Wow, I can't believe I missed that. I'm going to miss that man when he's gone. A lot.
ndzapruder 7 months ago 21
When was this? 2008? Maher challenging Hitchens on facts is so ridiculous. Hitch goes to all the places he talks & writes about BEFORE he talks about them. Don't challenge Hitchens. Dying of cancer, w/half his brain tied around his back he'll win every debate. Maher is not always to be taken seriously. He is a comedian after all. He is also a firm Zionist. No one should allow us to be handcuffed by any middle eastern country. Hitchens is so serious. Bush is not dumb, he is anti-intellectual.
eqsmooth 9 months ago
Hitchens is smarter than everyone in that room combined. Maher's crowd are bunch of retarded college kids who voted the current Manchurian, affirmative-action president into office
DeepHauz13 10 months ago
@DeepHa Affirmative Action? Editor & 1st black President of Harvard Law Review. That was determined by affirmative action? 7 Supreme court Justices were presidents of that Law Review. Constitutional law professor at U. of Chicago? That was due to affirmative action? How did Bush get in & out of Yale and Harvard? His father. How did Cheney get into Yale? His wife worked for a powerful alumnus. How did Cheney do? He flunked out twice. Obama was brainwashed into being a communist assassin? Really?
eqsmooth 9 months ago 2
@DeepHauz13 yeah they are basically just clapping seals
dontleademsomuch 8 months ago
@dontleademsomuch Umm, there's an applause sign. Applauding and laughing are done on cue. People are told to be there hours before the show starts so they can get a tutorial on audience etiquette.
fukinblowme 6 months ago
@DeepHauz13 lol.
grahamlaur 6 months ago
What a prissy queen he is!
SOLE2SOUL 10 months ago
@SOLE2SOUL Which one - Hitchens or Maher?
sketto 10 months ago