Christopher Hitchens on Obama

[npw350]

What a great man casting his pearls before a 3rd class swine. (And her sty full of viewers)

[josephpricey]

This foul female is the definition of a 'Thundercunt'

[fatcat2939]

I think she fell in love. Hitch smoothed......

[bilsim1]

"Radio might be better" hahaha

[borderlord]

What a Fuckwit that woman is...God help the guy married to that.

[torchwoody58]

"Can I say 'lord'?"~~~"I'd prefuh you didn't"~~~~"Then get in line with the other offended morons!"

[azmildman]

She answers the questions that she asked him to say something he didn't and put words in his mouth. That is so FAUX NEWS.

[jrdudedj]

Just because Sarah Palin is a "nice person" doesn't me she's qualified to be vice president.

[alexlee7773]

never seen hitchens act like a pussy before

[nyomythus]

@alexlee7773 Sitting next to the attractive Laura Ingram ... that's probably exactly what he was thinking.

[HoGraz]

@nyomythus Well he's on Fox. They must train them to have 'conservative values' and manners of talking or even yelling over people they try to put down.

[ArgueExplain]

Christopher Hitchens is an intellectual. Sarah Palin, who would have mostly likely become president after McCain's death, has retarded her own intellectual progress through multiple means.

An Alaskan beauty queen isn't fit to be President of the United States just because she hunts moose in her spare time. Hitchen's, who speaks eloquently, shouldn't be expected to support someone who can't answer the question "What books or magazines do you read?"

[phildirt3]

what an obnoxious cunthole turning it off poor hitch

[MrA19A92]

It's almost like the host's lecturing Hitchens! Look at him sitting there at around 4:00, just listening to the host, as if he's given up. Well this is a first!

[lioii]

She's a nasty, snarling right wing, big mouthed bigot who clearly doesn't want to allow Christopher to make his point...

[tseaman100]

This host is brutal...yet another reason to avoid Fox news shows. Hitch does well to hold back.

[nyomythus]

@tseaman100 FoxNews is a National Treasure.

[louiscfc93]

@nyomythus Is that sarcasm ?

[nyomythus]

@louiscfc93 I cant see what thread this attached to :(

[louiscfc93]

@nyomythus You said Fox news is a national treasure. Were you joking ?

[nyomythus]

@louiscfc93 Absolutely, I think it's very important that voices on the Right are expressed and heard, and Fox often gives a critical counter argument to the Left. Otherwise Liberalism becomes something perverted, twisted, dogmatic .. I don't want Liberalism in tablet form any more than I want Religion in tablet form. Somewhere along the way the Left lost it's tolerance to self-criticism and that can be just as appalling to me as any other form of demagogy.

[amindbody]

who else has or had the capacity to fill stadiums?

miley cyrus, jonas brothers, jersey shore!

[AntiMagnetMan]

HAHAA! That was good one: "you must tell me more often what you think!" That lady is not very professional if the meaning was to interview Hitchens.

[gjerten]

I can only laugh at this. Is this a comedy show. You would think this was in North Korea. Such biased journalism just reeks. Christopher Hitchens is a smart man.

[airmen103]

Laura Ingram is loud ,annoying, and not so bright. Shes perfect for Fox News!

[eksortso]

I think Tony Blair said it best. He's mentioned more than once that Prime Minister's Questions are broadcast in America: "There's no accounting for taste!"

There are rare U.S. TV shows where everyone acts civil. But those things just aren't entertaining enough.

Thank goodness for YouTube. I can see people make their cases at their own pace. Even people whose positions I don't like! It's refreshing!

Fox is honest about their biases, at least. I can't stand watching 60 Minutes on CBS sometimes.

[TheProgressistViewer]

Fox is honest about their bias?? U didn't noticed they keep repeating there america's most trusted network for fair and balanced news

[johnclavis]

Herein lies the difference between someone who can change their position based upon the facts (Hitchens) and someone who is a ruthless, shameless apologist for power & wealth, who pushes fallacious talking points and who creates ignorance and hatred and fear in her audience (Ingraham).

Hitchens makes his listeners think. Ingraham tells her listeners what and how to think. The fact that there are so many Ingraham fans out there tells us how societies can fall into fascism and ruin. WAKE UP!!!

[MetaMorphy]

May I call you darling---funny.

[nyomythus]

lol .. It forced her to pause her chain of speech allowing Hitch to get a word in ... good tactic!

[TearTheRoofOff]

@MetaMorphy lol, it was great - good comeback from the start.

[fomastephanovitch]

"a lot of friends of mine go to those rallies, they're good people" - hang on, they're people like Ingraham...

[hesmissedit]

I´m English and although Hitchens is a brilliant man I am from the North of the country and his snooty tones wind me up. However, I prefer even his upper class intonation to this whiny bitch who can best be described as a little "spikey".

[MEpianist]

funniest part of this is 0:23, her pathetic throat-clear, what a heshe

[PeterHaroldErikson]

So...Hitchens was against McCain because John didn't endorse unilateral attacks on Pakistani soil? How enlightened.

Obama Bought The Presidency

[nyomythus]

He supported Obama, if there must be a primary issue, because McCain seems to be or seemed to demonstrate that he's not thinking clearly, as in he may be showing early signs of mental deterioration associated with aging -- and stating that he, Obama, will resume the fight against militant jihadism is a plus; slap their asses down and keep pounding and humiliating the bastards till it's just not cool to be a Jihadist anymore.

[CMXXXPUNK]

@PeterHaroldErikson

Obama bought the presidency..no he was voted in quite decisively i may add

[muggyspin]

don't you just want to smack Laura Ingraham . . just the dinn of her voice is nerve wracking . . HUH ! She is supposed to represent these "tough" white-republican "cut-the-crap" feminists ("feministas") when in fact she is on a power-trip

[traceurjason]

I think Laura is upset because she thinks the right wing has lost an intellectual powerhouse from their side, even though Christopher Hitchens openly stated that he was "no kind of conservative." Now the smart right wingers are jumping off of the McCain ship thereby leaving the remaining bigots and morons to drown on their sinking ship.

[belzondium]

Thank god he gave up smoking, I'm convinced Hitchens' continued existence is crucial to the future well-being of this planet.

[nyomythus]

Speaking of quitting smoking, Chantix does wonders, it's been since May 2008 for me :)

[nyomythus]

You're right, if only there had been more time he could have converted her into the Radical Militant Classical Liberal camp.

[DaHonestAbe]

Hitchens could have obliterated this woman if he wanted.

[windingstad]

Lol, Christopher feel so bad for her, he doesn´t even bother to argue...look at the way he laughs when she begins her rant..

[cizzio1]

"you must have me on more often to tell me what you think"

haha classic Hitchens

[owings64]

Hi McC - I agree it is Free Speech and would never want to censor...as that is an even more slippery slope. However, it is my patriotic duty to point out that they are indeed Proganda :-)

[NyomythusWatch]

It's spelled "propaganda," moron

[owings64]

oh yeah. Thanks for the catch, I'll be sure and correct that next time I talk about FOX PROPAGANDA.

[nyomythus]

Sorry "O" this nyomythuswatch little creep is in love with me :\

[owings64]

I'm jealous now that I know you have your own stalker. You truly are a Celeb!!! Next time it'll be Paparrazi.

[nyomythus]

You gotta deal!

[owings64]

This is a perfect example of what our so called media passes to the American people as serious dialogue. They work hard every day to divide us. 20 years ago FOX would have been considered pure Propaganda...now it resonates as journalistic truth with an ever growing segment of Americans who have been brainwashed by this garbage. Sad and pathetic as it is, it is also dangerous to the principles of Freedom of the Press.

[nyomythus]

But we shouldn't do anything, or even suggest,  to censor them or their compatriots in talk radio, that would be grossly anti-liberal.

[nyomythus]

oh "hi" Mr. O!!

[amsoho75gr]

she must be into S&M

[rboltt]

Notice O'Reilly is not there to face Hitchens and never will face him because he knows he is clearly out of his league, which is exactly why Ingraham will not let Hitch speak uninterrupted. Right-wingers are intellectual inferiors.

[nyomythus]

The only way O'Reilly could win a debate with Hitchens is if O'Reilly literally blew on a horn the entire time, going redder and redder in the face, and then speaking out of breath in a whisper, "cut to commercial...". lol

[jeffbrown8]

i love Hitchens, but I would think he would support Obama because Obama is socialist.

I think it's funny that Hitchens talks about actuary percentages. With all the alcohol Hitchens has consumed, as a functioning alcholic? you would think the tendency for him would be to be senile and slow. Alcohol does shrink the brain over time.

[nyomythus]

The ad hom is alway cute, like watching a kindergarten class, but on the former note Hitchens isn't a socialist, he's more in the camp of laissez-faire liberalism (opposite of the post-modern new Left) which is a doctrine stressing the importance of human rationality, ethical individualism, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, constitutional limitations of government, free markets; Jefferson, Thomas Payne, John Stuart Mill, Montesquieu, Voltaire ... do you begin to see what I mean?

[jeffbrown8]

i hope you are right.. i know that Hitchens was a Trotskyite...he went to Cuba during college to promote socialism.. he has spoke fondly of it throughout his writing.. i hope that he has been reformed more and more with the sales of his books

[nyomythus]

Food on the table is a great motivator we can all have solidarity with, no doubt, and it doesn't just work for us in a selfish way, but for everyone willing get off their ass and get a job, it's actually a great and natural way of living as has been successfully demonstrated.

[ultraviolet99]

Yeah, a possible 1.5 percent, with no proven effect on memory

[ultraviolet99]

or mental function.

[angrysoba]

This is embarrassing for Hitchens. He should have simply said that McCain is senile and that that renders his policies irrelevant. That is, after all, what he said in his Slate article. Yet he feels the need to pussyfoot around with the hard-right that he snuggled up to. Why is that? Perhaps because after all his bluster he really doesn't have the stomach for the hard right or the hard left and has to take mincing steps among the wishy washy centrists that the rest of us do. How humbling!

[nyomythus]

It's a nuance but the Slate article reads, "McCain occasionally remembers to stress matters like honor and to disown innuendoes and slanders, but this only makes him look both more senile and more cynical, since it cannot (can it?) be other than his wish and design that he has engaged a deputy who does the innuendoes and slanders for him." ...senile in this sense isn't stating that McCain has this mental impairment but a ''seeming to be''. Hitchens would not presume to speak for a gerontologist.

[PrivateEye8]

Purely on a superficial note, what an utter contrast in their voices: one a smooth, articulate intonation flowing with intelligence and sophistication, the other this hideous, screeching whine that seems to be forced through the nasal passage under extreme pressure.

I think Hitchens summed this interview up best though, why bother inviting a guest on for his opinions only to have the 'conversation's airtime dominated by the host?

[BPPerrone1]

4:04 "I thought you'd never ask." Priceless.

[kurdatheist]

Hitchens is awsome

[abetterpersonthanyou]

CAN SHE SHUT UP SO THE GUEST CAN SPEAK?

I know she is taking over for Bill-O, but she really needs to not be such a moron.

[padraic2001eire]

Christ, Fox News pundits love the sound of their own voice, don't they?

[nyomythus]

Yes they do, but I'd prefer it if you didn't say Christ. :D

[gefan3]

He just plays with her, doesn't he?