It's too bad that drinking heavily is almost certainly what caused Hitchens' death - along with smoking. Although he said drinking was valuable to his creativity, he also said that if he could have done things differently, "I would have quit earlier hoping to get away with it all."
Chemo- “therapy” poisons healthy tissue. Of the 3 protocols in traditional (allopathic) cancer “therapy” : surgery, radiation & chemical, only surgery possesses some legitimacy when malignant (cancerous) growth has reached a certain stage. It is far better to avoid cancer than to treat it. Cancer is the body's inability to stop the process of healing, the same natural process in producing a placenta (that 1 pound organ attached to the uterine membrane which serves to nourish a developing baby).
Hitchens was, by many accounts, very generous with his time, giving encouragement - as in this interview; this exchange is an example of that phenom where the novice gets the more human side to emerge. Now that Hitch is gone it is all the more to be savored. He is so "quick on his feet" and ironically nimble - the "they" who closed the ribbon store! We can read him, we can watch, agree or not, but only the closed-minded will not miss him. As he said of Orwell, one felt he was writing to you.
It cracks me up that a man who tried water boarding still insisted that he would never try folk dancing. That's how bad folk dancing is: its worse than the sensation of drowning.
Thank you Hitch - for the Hitchslaps, the integrity, the intellect, the inspiration. On behalf of Richard, Sam and Dan, the other 3 horsemen, and myself...farewell.
hitch is merely the result of average intelligence married to an exceptional memory. it makes him seem much more smarter than he really is. i honestly never heard anything from him that was original thinking. i really like him and i agree with many of his positions and i am grateful he gives voice to them, but he is no great thinker.
@MisterBouncyBounce clearly a thought occurred to him... to read and learn, to think and write, and to visit and discuss all that he finds important or worthwhile....that is pretty intelligent mister bouncy bounce......mister bouncy...bounce....fekin idiot
The first and only example of Hitch sounding even mildly defensive about anything he's ever done or said seems to me to be here, where he says that anyone NEEDING to drink in order to write is a loser. It comes across as a ready-response thought up for when he's being asked about his famous love of drink. The rightness or wrongness of the statement aside, it's remarkable that anyone w thousands of hours of recorded public speaking could have but a single instance that sounds scripted. Amazing.
Please visit my channel for the unpopular truth about homosexuality.
A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.
Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
@UnitedKingdomify I love the way Hitch, in common with a lot of men of his style & intellect manage to make the everyday sound important & even heroic. There must be millions of people who've known old men, quite well, & seen them consume staggering quantities of drink, yet when one writer offers anecdotal evidence of another [dead] writer, we're all impressed. But how impressed should we be, compared with say, my grandfather, a hero of Vimmy Ridge - who famously drank for England until his 80s?
For all the flak this interview is catching, I thought it was great! Hitchens needs a moment or two to be human and vulnerable, and this guy nailed it! Hitchens isn't always out for blood. He is very bright and humorous outside of debates as well (as was demonstrated). This was a great change in pace compared to what I've been keeping up with the past month. Kudos!
@nthomas87 Well, I don't necessarily have a problem with the interview, but I do find some of Anthony Layser's comments bordering on the vapid. I like seeing Hitchens with his "hair down" as much as the next person, but is it too much to ask to have both a really sharp interviewer and a unpretentious, though no less enjoyable, interview?
At 2.00 "you don't text people?" The tone of disgust in his voice - "No." - at being asked such a question is hilarious from this brilliant and arrogant man. May he carry on living and prospering!!!
One of the best interviews I've seen with Hitchens, not least because the interviewer had done his research, and didn't ask the same old questions that everybody asks. Well done to him, whoever he is.
The audio on this video is poor, it is annoying and a distraction to have muted music playing in the background. Particularly to old farts like myself that require hearing aids. The interviewer was also ineffective, relying on adolescent questioning as a way of presenting the material in Hitchens 22.
@tmcgonagle .. due to his deep bass timbre of his voice, some of the words (especially punch line words) cant be heard... I usually turn up the treble on my audio to pick up his tone.
@tmcgonagle I liked his style. I thought it allowed us to see a different side to Hitchens. I don't think Hitchens would have seen it as adolescent.. I saw another interview recently where Hitchens recollects a game him and his friends played that involved replacing the word "heart" with "dick" in well known phrases. He clearly has a good sense of humour. I don't see why everyone has to be so serious all the time around him. There is plenty of Hitchens being serious to go around..
i dont feel like such a bloody geezer now that i ve learned that ol hitch also had to give up the type writer because the nation's ribbon inventory was depleted and rendered obsolete. i still dont have a cell phone though, my answering machine works swimmingly. this interview was quite interesting , thanks kindly for sharing , cheers
LOL at him considering the water into wine miracle the most useful :)
I'm glad he's cool about YouTube because I'd have never heard of him otherwise, and never had bought 3 of his books. It does lead me to wonder why DailyHitchens22 had copyright strikes against his previous account DailyHitchens though.
It always amazes me when an interviewer finishes up an interview and then Hitchens or whoever it might be is like "Already? I just got my trousers off." Why don't they keep going? Why not just have an in-depth chat for another hour. You can edit the good stuff when you get back. For 24-news channel shows and the like I understand the difficulty, but for something like this, Jesus. You got him to a bar, make it worth while.
Christopher says he drinks to stave off boredom. How he wasn't pounding them during this I don't know. When "the kid" ordered a scotch I could almost see him thinking, "Now I can say I had a scotch with Christopher Hitchens." To be fair, he said he was nervous and it showed. He looks very young and that showed too.
The people from hitchwatch are pathetic. Really hitchens haters present themselves either as pseudo intellectual neo Stalinist moonbats, or as immature backward religious fanatics.
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I regularly read both Hitchwatch, and Hitchens' syndicated columns in Vanity Fair and Slate.
There are parts of his thought that I strongly admire and enjoy, and parts that really anger me. So I read Slate for Hitchens the literary genius, and Hitchwatch for the attacks on Hitchens the warmongering drink-sodden popinjay.
I wish I could stop liking him, but I can't. I really can't get enough of this stuff.
@henrythesteinberg Before Hitchens I thought I was the only pro war liberal left in the world, it was nice to know I'm not the only one who maintains the slogan "fascism means war" even if it remains a minority view on what is referred to as the left.
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I don't think liberals have much of a claim to being part of the left. Leftists regard liberals as, in Hitch's words, "dangerous compromisers". Now, if you could find me a genuine leftist, a socialist, who supports the Iraq war, I would be very surprised. There were one or two at the beginning who took an "anyone but Saddam" position, but they all shot back to the anti war position when they saw how terrible the war was turning out. People like Johann Hari.
@henrythesteinberg I never claimed an opinion of what a socialist might think, as Hitchens has pointed out many times the socialist model of revolution has been discredited, the only revolution left standing being the american liberal one. I consider myself to be in the same ideological grouping as Jefferson, particularly when he sent the fleets to blockade the Barbary states. A subject Hitchens has also expounded upon to some length.
@GaiusIuliusTaberna Jefferson was also an admitted imperialist and white supremacist, who believed that the white American race should fight, colonize and ethnically cleanse all the way down to Cape Horn. You want to claim that man's foreign policy?
Furthermore, socialism has never been put in place, so it cannot be discredited. Hitchens may think it has, but he also also believes that the US should invade Iran. I don't give his opinions much time. Most people don't.
@henrythesteinberg Imperialist yes, white supremacist no. I mean he fathered half African children, and his writings on slavery give the entire abolitionist argument. Its true he did fail to abolish it, and indeed allowed it to be spread to the new territories, however in his wittings its clear that was done for economic reasons and while that doesn't excuse it. I find myself again taking the view of Hitchens when I reject the idea that the founding fathers were just "racist old white men"
@GaiusIuliusTaberna And tell me, who did he father those black children with? A servant? Strom Thurmond also fathered a half-black child.
A white supremacist doesn't necessarily argue for slavery. Very few contemporary white supremacists do. The core of white supremacy is. simply put, the belief in the supremacy of the white race. Jefferson spoke out against interracial marriage and a multi-racial society. If a man did that today, it would be uncontroversial to call him a white supremacist.
@henrythesteinberg That's absurd, comparing Jefferson views to contemporary white supremacists in a time where his views on slavery were more controversial for being abolitionist. If he was one, he should have been pro slavery, more over even now white supremacists do not support racial equality. In fact they often defend racial quotas for minorities on a purely ideological basis. That is to say, recognizing their principles in use. Then again I've actually had to debate these people so I know.
@henrythesteinberg Have you read anything the man ever wrote? like the preamble to the declaration of independence? "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal" The desire to abolish slavery was based on that, it didn't succeed for political reasons which took a civil war to resolve.
Let me put it this way, if you like Hitchens, look up some of his comments on Jefferson, if you don't, then one wonders why you are watching this.
@GaiusIuliusTaberna Well Jefferson clearly didn't believe that all men were created equal. As we discussed earlier, he was an admitted imperialist. He believed in manifest destiny. You can't be an imperialist and believe in equality.
Of the natives he said: "We shall drive them with the beasts of the forests into the stony mountains," and the country will ultimately be "free of blot or mixture".
@henrythesteinberg That's a non sequitur. Second, his views on native Americans were as conflicting as his views on slavery. In general he seems to have viewed them as political rivals but he also spent a great deal of time studying them, including compiling the longest anthology of native tongues ever produced, this was latter lost in a flood.
He also instructed Lewis and Clark to inoculate natives against smallpox. One wishes this effort had been more widespread.
what i think Hitchens doesnt realise about his youtube popularity is that as a writer he is good but not the best, especially since people have more time to think, research etc and you can be compared to great writers from history. But as far as taking part in debates goes he is the world number 1. Thats why people remember him from youtube. There is no one else who is as good at thinking quickly and coming out with brilliant quotations as the hitch.
of course i have. And i read his slate collumn every week as well. I stand by my comment that i dont think he is as good a writer (when you have time to think things through) as he is a debater, (when you have to think quickly on your feet).
Whether or not he is a better writer or speaker is a matter of opinion. But i think that many more people become fans of Christopher Hitchens, after they see him debate on youtube, rather than when they read his books/ articles.
@gtalcstories you may not like his style of writing but to say hes not good is idiotic. And in most of his debates many of his comments which seem off the cuff have been used by him numerous times before
I agree. It would be stupid to that say he is "not good"
Thats why if you bothered to read what i said (dont worry its not too late, you can read it now) you would have seen the words "he is good but not the best"
"he is good"
"he is not good"
One of them was written by me. The other was written by you trying to put words into my mouth. Try to figure out which is which ok.
Very charming interview though I thought Christopher was suprisingly open and Anthony didn't fully take advantage of that. Good job though, nonetheless.
A Christopher Hitchens video, and theres a scientology commercial just under it, Irony
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It's too bad that drinking heavily is almost certainly what caused Hitchens' death - along with smoking. Although he said drinking was valuable to his creativity, he also said that if he could have done things differently, "I would have quit earlier hoping to get away with it all."
squamish4244 3 weeks ago
Wow I can text he can't I can feel superiour in such a small way lol
arniemazmax 4 weeks ago
....And in this clip he mentions YouTube.
1001orpheus 1 month ago
Chemo- “therapy” poisons healthy tissue. Of the 3 protocols in traditional (allopathic) cancer “therapy” : surgery, radiation & chemical, only surgery possesses some legitimacy when malignant (cancerous) growth has reached a certain stage. It is far better to avoid cancer than to treat it. Cancer is the body's inability to stop the process of healing, the same natural process in producing a placenta (that 1 pound organ attached to the uterine membrane which serves to nourish a developing baby).
ParadiseOnLand 1 month ago
LOL at 2:02 the look he gives when the guy asks if Hitch uses text messaging
drummerboy1333 1 month ago
i also have not felt any ill effects from dope
CareFreeWherever 1 month ago
I wonder what the guys at HitchWatch are going to do now
NoRegretsForOurYouth 2 months ago
@NoRegretsForOurYouth party?
CareFreeWherever 1 month ago
@CareFreeWherever after they're done celebrating some guy's death that is
NoRegretsForOurYouth 1 month ago
@NoRegretsForOurYouth i believe that is the point i just made, yes ;)
CareFreeWherever 1 month ago
@NoRegretsForOurYouth Same thing they were always doing: a sad circle jerk.
kingthamus 1 month ago
Hitchens was, by many accounts, very generous with his time, giving encouragement - as in this interview; this exchange is an example of that phenom where the novice gets the more human side to emerge. Now that Hitch is gone it is all the more to be savored. He is so "quick on his feet" and ironically nimble - the "they" who closed the ribbon store! We can read him, we can watch, agree or not, but only the closed-minded will not miss him. As he said of Orwell, one felt he was writing to you.
JP51ism 2 months ago 2
It cracks me up that a man who tried water boarding still insisted that he would never try folk dancing. That's how bad folk dancing is: its worse than the sensation of drowning.
RIP.
zippythewildone 2 months ago
Hitchens legacy will live on.
R.I.P comrade.
jjoneil73 2 months ago
Thank you Hitch - for the Hitchslaps, the integrity, the intellect, the inspiration. On behalf of Richard, Sam and Dan, the other 3 horsemen, and myself...farewell.
nordhorny 2 months ago
hitchens on youtube is a WMD against ignorance
manonthemount 3 months ago 3
hitch is merely the result of average intelligence married to an exceptional memory. it makes him seem much more smarter than he really is. i honestly never heard anything from him that was original thinking. i really like him and i agree with many of his positions and i am grateful he gives voice to them, but he is no great thinker.
MisterBouncyBounce 3 months ago
@MisterBouncyBounce And your grammar.... muah*
BoggsDiamond 3 months ago
@BoggsDiamond if your point is to show how pedantic you are, you've succeeded.
MisterBouncyBounce 3 months ago
@MisterBouncyBounce clearly a thought occurred to him... to read and learn, to think and write, and to visit and discuss all that he finds important or worthwhile....that is pretty intelligent mister bouncy bounce......mister bouncy...bounce....fekin idiot
jackofeet1000 2 months ago
The first and only example of Hitch sounding even mildly defensive about anything he's ever done or said seems to me to be here, where he says that anyone NEEDING to drink in order to write is a loser. It comes across as a ready-response thought up for when he's being asked about his famous love of drink. The rightness or wrongness of the statement aside, it's remarkable that anyone w thousands of hours of recorded public speaking could have but a single instance that sounds scripted. Amazing.
dantean 4 months ago
there is an enourmous archive of Christopher on youtube, i watch it all the time
nflhester3 4 months ago 39
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lightandbeautiful 5 months ago
this interviewer is such an amateur.
peteagassi 5 months ago
@peteagassi Variety is the spice of life.
hearv888 4 months ago
Is that a second whiskey in the foreground lined up for Hitch?
kinkyplunk 6 months ago
Unreal, Hitch wanted to do more and this guy ends it?!
Scanini 6 months ago 2
Thank you for posting this, DailyHitcens22.
writersblock26 6 months ago
2:01 "you dont text people?" "-No-.."
Killerjosh89 6 months ago
I bet Rushdie's the dope man. If you've read any of his books you can tell he's been smoking something.
8496ricko 6 months ago
@8496ricko Ha - I agree with you on that one
MrSwarmingbeez 2 months ago
I'm surprised Hitchens is a technonoob, I thought he would be very technologically aware and would be heaping praises on things like Youtube.
Riiye 7 months ago
0:06. Lol, he would say that.
IsolationInstigation 7 months ago
Of Kingsley Amis - "I knew the old man, quite well, and saw him consume staggering quantities of drink..."
I lol'd.
UnitedKingdomify 9 months ago
@UnitedKingdomify I love the way Hitch, in common with a lot of men of his style & intellect manage to make the everyday sound important & even heroic. There must be millions of people who've known old men, quite well, & seen them consume staggering quantities of drink, yet when one writer offers anecdotal evidence of another [dead] writer, we're all impressed. But how impressed should we be, compared with say, my grandfather, a hero of Vimmy Ridge - who famously drank for England until his 80s?
G58 8 months ago
@G58 I just loved that choice of words. Heh ha. >.0
UnitedKingdomify 8 months ago
The water into wine...the most useful of the miracles...lol...classic!
Hitchism1 10 months ago
Good interviewer
linguinetopoli 10 months ago
Hehe, I wonder if he knows about his own meme. "Hitchslapped" lol
A2thedouble 1 year ago
hitches better drop acid before dying!
borderlinebuddhist 1 year ago
so he would try murder?? ...interesting
TheGreatDeciever55 1 year ago
For all the flak this interview is catching, I thought it was great! Hitchens needs a moment or two to be human and vulnerable, and this guy nailed it! Hitchens isn't always out for blood. He is very bright and humorous outside of debates as well (as was demonstrated). This was a great change in pace compared to what I've been keeping up with the past month. Kudos!
nthomas87 1 year ago
@nthomas87 Well, I don't necessarily have a problem with the interview, but I do find some of Anthony Layser's comments bordering on the vapid. I like seeing Hitchens with his "hair down" as much as the next person, but is it too much to ask to have both a really sharp interviewer and a unpretentious, though no less enjoyable, interview?
writersblock26 11 months ago
what does he say at 4:38? incest and ?????
cheebacheeba 1 year ago
@cheebacheeba folk dancing.
DailyHitchens22 1 year ago 24
@DailyHitchens22 thank you.
Momobrock 2 months ago
@DailyHitchens22 Interesting combination.
Vaeviktis 1 month ago
@cheebacheeba
he said - incest and folk dancing
agerweb50 11 months ago
@cheebacheeba FOLK-DANCING
rofl.
gwprod1 10 months ago
@cheebacheeba folk dancing
jamespowell1969 2 months ago
I wonder if Hitchens has watched the Rowan Atkinson sketch on water into wine!
gamerunknown 1 year ago 2
The look on his face when the interviewer asks "and, do you do any texting?" Hahahahahaha!
ExtravaganzaBullshit 1 year ago
" I hardly got my trousers off" why did you stop then? I would have picked his brain until he kicked me out.
BillKiernan 1 year ago 3
haha, "i hardly got my trousers off" is probably my most used phrase these days, hitch is awesome, get well soon!!
colonelwalker 1 year ago 2
when he says at 4:25 he knows authors who smoke dope everyday and it doesn't effect their thinking i know he is talking about sam harris :-)
gondor420 1 year ago
Good grief, this interviewer is a moron
Exploding 1 year ago
@Exploding nah, hitch seems to like him
Freethinker12341 1 year ago
hitch is king
hchukuka 1 year ago
Wiffled?!
SethHesio 1 year ago
he loves that trousers joke
netskot 1 year ago
@netskot It's certainly worth repeating.
zendakk 1 year ago
At 2.00 "you don't text people?" The tone of disgust in his voice - "No." - at being asked such a question is hilarious from this brilliant and arrogant man. May he carry on living and prospering!!!
jimbobwally76 1 year ago 6
@jimbobwally76 LOL I laughed so hard at the expression on his face as he passed that sly "No...."
StAndAl0neCompl3x 2 months ago
Incest and (shudder) folk dancing
ColdCypher 1 year ago
One of the best interviews I've seen with Hitchens, not least because the interviewer had done his research, and didn't ask the same old questions that everybody asks. Well done to him, whoever he is.
eoinsac 1 year ago 3
Anthony, please don't interrupt your interviewees while they're talking. Let them at least finish their thoughts. So annoying.
zivaray 1 year ago
Damn, for the first few seconds I thought the annoying background music was gone.
wilca59 1 year ago
Well done, pretty good interview. Hitch rules.
styops 1 year ago
'occasional stimulant to inspiration'.... come on ^^
lorenzarthur91 1 year ago
"Yes I knew the old man quite well, and saw him consume staggering quantities of drink.."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKING WIN xD
FreedomLiberty21 1 year ago
great interview! thanks for posting.
toastvision 1 year ago 2
Oh man, he starts to get trashed toward the end, I can tell by the sweating and blank stare. Hitch is the man
tcslick420 1 year ago
Great interview!
jtburns33 1 year ago
I hope his voice survives his treatment. He loves to speak I think more than writing.
eswyatt 1 year ago 2
Legend. Get well soon Hitch!
bertiebirdman 1 year ago
Hitchens gives new meaning to the phrase “suffer fools gladly” in this
silly interview with this silly interviewer!
townsendjean 1 year ago
So, when does the new Hitchens fansite "MeTube" go up? lol
BalzacCinema 1 year ago
This interviewer is serious when he should just let a funny comment slip by
Clarcat9 1 year ago
Watch out YouTube ! Here comes MeTube hahahahh
geeoogle 1 year ago
"woman are incredibly forgiving " ??? i think he was sarcastic there.
geeoogle 1 year ago
"hardly got my trousers off" ..... priceless !
its gotta be a quote up there with those of JFK and Churchill .
geeoogle 1 year ago 4
The audio on this video is poor, it is annoying and a distraction to have muted music playing in the background. Particularly to old farts like myself that require hearing aids. The interviewer was also ineffective, relying on adolescent questioning as a way of presenting the material in Hitchens 22.
tmcgonagle 1 year ago
@tmcgonagle .. due to his deep bass timbre of his voice, some of the words (especially punch line words) cant be heard... I usually turn up the treble on my audio to pick up his tone.
geeoogle 1 year ago
@tmcgonagle I liked his style. I thought it allowed us to see a different side to Hitchens. I don't think Hitchens would have seen it as adolescent.. I saw another interview recently where Hitchens recollects a game him and his friends played that involved replacing the word "heart" with "dick" in well known phrases. He clearly has a good sense of humour. I don't see why everyone has to be so serious all the time around him. There is plenty of Hitchens being serious to go around..
rjr201 1 year ago
@rjr201 "Hitchens recollects a game him and his friends played that involved replacing the word "heart" with "dick" in well known phrases."
Absolutely brilliant!
RATIOETVERITAS 1 year ago
awesome!
renaudldw88 1 year ago
One of the better interviews.
dopejoel 1 year ago
You got mentioned DailyHitchens! :) Congratz!
SubTachyon 1 year ago 13
@SubTachyon Kind of. He says 'enormous archive' but the actual words Daily Hitchens would've been nice to hear.
DailyHitchens22 1 year ago 8
It felt so meta when he mentioned us.
servantofsaber 1 year ago
My favorite American.
LeLimeLine 1 year ago 2
Hey Tom, I think you got a nod in this one :)
MultiUniv3rsal 1 year ago
hitchens loves that "i haven't even got my trousers off" line.
barry123www 1 year ago 3
GREAT FUCKING INTERVIEW!
tonybeir 1 year ago
Very fun interview.
GDATERRY 1 year ago
no 2:00
TheArnoldwong 1 year ago
Anthony Layser sounds like a porn star name.
perfecto25 1 year ago
"Hardly got my trousers off" lol I love that line.
R3APER24 1 year ago
YOUTUBE!!!
sylviabombs15 1 year ago
i dont feel like such a bloody geezer now that i ve learned that ol hitch also had to give up the type writer because the nation's ribbon inventory was depleted and rendered obsolete. i still dont have a cell phone though, my answering machine works swimmingly. this interview was quite interesting , thanks kindly for sharing , cheers
jeremyshambles 1 year ago
LOL at him considering the water into wine miracle the most useful :)
I'm glad he's cool about YouTube because I'd have never heard of him otherwise, and never had bought 3 of his books. It does lead me to wonder why DailyHitchens22 had copyright strikes against his previous account DailyHitchens though.
LAnonHubbard 1 year ago
It always amazes me when an interviewer finishes up an interview and then Hitchens or whoever it might be is like "Already? I just got my trousers off." Why don't they keep going? Why not just have an in-depth chat for another hour. You can edit the good stuff when you get back. For 24-news channel shows and the like I understand the difficulty, but for something like this, Jesus. You got him to a bar, make it worth while.
rothery86 1 year ago 3
'i'll try everything once, except incest and folk dancing'
even the pple who hate hitchens gotta be awed by that.
desiii420 1 year ago 2
Christopher says he drinks to stave off boredom. How he wasn't pounding them during this I don't know. When "the kid" ordered a scotch I could almost see him thinking, "Now I can say I had a scotch with Christopher Hitchens." To be fair, he said he was nervous and it showed. He looks very young and that showed too.
edwdixon5 1 year ago
Hahahahah. Good ole' Hitch. Incest and Folk dancing
stevecrm114 1 year ago
whats the last thing he says? Incest and what?
setmedic 1 year ago 2
@setmedic folk dancing
DailyHitchens22 1 year ago 18
@setmedic foie gras
alexanderamend 1 year ago
I lol'ed at part 1
CntrBrdr 1 year ago
The Hitch knows about us!!! This is wonderful :D
Vostoek 1 year ago 3
"Who made you get a computer?" "The people who closed the ribbon store." lol Hitch was very patient with this guy.
resedoton 1 year ago 6
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resedoton 1 year ago
Haha should be renamed Moi-tube!
comanchio1976 1 year ago
"I'll try anything once, except incest and folk dancing" - hilarious.
I enjoyed that interview thoroughly - thanks for sharing it. Hitch rules.
muzvh1 1 year ago 54
@muzvh1 almost sounded like incest and protoplasm?
nyomythus 1 year ago
The people from hitchwatch are pathetic. Really hitchens haters present themselves either as pseudo intellectual neo Stalinist moonbats, or as immature backward religious fanatics.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago 51
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I regularly read both Hitchwatch, and Hitchens' syndicated columns in Vanity Fair and Slate.
There are parts of his thought that I strongly admire and enjoy, and parts that really anger me. So I read Slate for Hitchens the literary genius, and Hitchwatch for the attacks on Hitchens the warmongering drink-sodden popinjay.
I wish I could stop liking him, but I can't. I really can't get enough of this stuff.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg Before Hitchens I thought I was the only pro war liberal left in the world, it was nice to know I'm not the only one who maintains the slogan "fascism means war" even if it remains a minority view on what is referred to as the left.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I don't think liberals have much of a claim to being part of the left. Leftists regard liberals as, in Hitch's words, "dangerous compromisers". Now, if you could find me a genuine leftist, a socialist, who supports the Iraq war, I would be very surprised. There were one or two at the beginning who took an "anyone but Saddam" position, but they all shot back to the anti war position when they saw how terrible the war was turning out. People like Johann Hari.
1.3 million dead.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg I never claimed an opinion of what a socialist might think, as Hitchens has pointed out many times the socialist model of revolution has been discredited, the only revolution left standing being the american liberal one. I consider myself to be in the same ideological grouping as Jefferson, particularly when he sent the fleets to blockade the Barbary states. A subject Hitchens has also expounded upon to some length.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna Jefferson was also an admitted imperialist and white supremacist, who believed that the white American race should fight, colonize and ethnically cleanse all the way down to Cape Horn. You want to claim that man's foreign policy?
Furthermore, socialism has never been put in place, so it cannot be discredited. Hitchens may think it has, but he also also believes that the US should invade Iran. I don't give his opinions much time. Most people don't.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg Imperialist yes, white supremacist no. I mean he fathered half African children, and his writings on slavery give the entire abolitionist argument. Its true he did fail to abolish it, and indeed allowed it to be spread to the new territories, however in his wittings its clear that was done for economic reasons and while that doesn't excuse it. I find myself again taking the view of Hitchens when I reject the idea that the founding fathers were just "racist old white men"
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna And tell me, who did he father those black children with? A servant? Strom Thurmond also fathered a half-black child.
A white supremacist doesn't necessarily argue for slavery. Very few contemporary white supremacists do. The core of white supremacy is. simply put, the belief in the supremacy of the white race. Jefferson spoke out against interracial marriage and a multi-racial society. If a man did that today, it would be uncontroversial to call him a white supremacist.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg That's absurd, comparing Jefferson views to contemporary white supremacists in a time where his views on slavery were more controversial for being abolitionist. If he was one, he should have been pro slavery, more over even now white supremacists do not support racial equality. In fact they often defend racial quotas for minorities on a purely ideological basis. That is to say, recognizing their principles in use. Then again I've actually had to debate these people so I know.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna
Again, Jefferson did not support racial equality. He supported a predominately white segregated society, with no intermarriage.
You're clearly trying to evade the issue because of your infatuation with this man. I'm bored of it.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg Have you read anything the man ever wrote? like the preamble to the declaration of independence? "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal" The desire to abolish slavery was based on that, it didn't succeed for political reasons which took a civil war to resolve.
Let me put it this way, if you like Hitchens, look up some of his comments on Jefferson, if you don't, then one wonders why you are watching this.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna Well Jefferson clearly didn't believe that all men were created equal. As we discussed earlier, he was an admitted imperialist. He believed in manifest destiny. You can't be an imperialist and believe in equality.
Of the natives he said: "We shall drive them with the beasts of the forests into the stony mountains," and the country will ultimately be "free of blot or mixture".
Well, there you have it.
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
@henrythesteinberg That's a non sequitur. Second, his views on native Americans were as conflicting as his views on slavery. In general he seems to have viewed them as political rivals but he also spent a great deal of time studying them, including compiling the longest anthology of native tongues ever produced, this was latter lost in a flood.
He also instructed Lewis and Clark to inoculate natives against smallpox. One wishes this effort had been more widespread.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna Moonbats! lol
SethHesio 1 year ago
Good amusing interview. Hitchens is a really nice guy deep down.
BBMix 1 year ago 5
what i think Hitchens doesnt realise about his youtube popularity is that as a writer he is good but not the best, especially since people have more time to think, research etc and you can be compared to great writers from history. But as far as taking part in debates goes he is the world number 1. Thats why people remember him from youtube. There is no one else who is as good at thinking quickly and coming out with brilliant quotations as the hitch.
gtalcstories 1 year ago 2
@gtalcstories have you ever read any of his books
123columbo123 1 year ago
@123columbo123
of course i have. And i read his slate collumn every week as well. I stand by my comment that i dont think he is as good a writer (when you have time to think things through) as he is a debater, (when you have to think quickly on your feet).
Whether or not he is a better writer or speaker is a matter of opinion. But i think that many more people become fans of Christopher Hitchens, after they see him debate on youtube, rather than when they read his books/ articles.
gtalcstories 1 year ago
@gtalcstories you may not like his style of writing but to say hes not good is idiotic. And in most of his debates many of his comments which seem off the cuff have been used by him numerous times before
123columbo123 1 year ago
@123columbo123
I agree. It would be stupid to that say he is "not good"
Thats why if you bothered to read what i said (dont worry its not too late, you can read it now) you would have seen the words "he is good but not the best"
"he is good"
"he is not good"
One of them was written by me. The other was written by you trying to put words into my mouth. Try to figure out which is which ok.
gtalcstories 1 year ago
@gtalcstories welcome to arguing with idiots 101
123columbo123 1 year ago
There you go, he even supports the archive. Woe betide YouTube if they try to remove it :D
mush01 1 year ago
Can Hitchens be anything but brilliant? The more drunk he gets, it seems, the more brilliant he gets!
polluxandcastor 1 year ago 6
It is amusing to see the interview trying to be witty in Hitchens' presence.
pugay69 1 year ago 3
Very charming interview though I thought Christopher was suprisingly open and Anthony didn't fully take advantage of that. Good job though, nonetheless.
Mattinmotion 1 year ago
Man is such a legend! Love the fact the he doesn't bother with texting...keep it real Hitch :)
peterdynes1 1 year ago
Hitch is so well-spoken that you can publish his casual chat, unedited.
alternativeinfo 1 year ago 5
Someone teach this man how to youtube!
Schneboll 1 year ago 2
Very humorous interview.
FreeInquisition 1 year ago