Ron Paul knows more about the Middle-East than any other candidate and Obama.
Getting involved in every Foreign conflict and policing the world is not making us safe.
We need someone who knows what is going on. America will not last as a power if we keep doing what we have been doing throughout the world. We need someone who puts America first. We need to get our debt taken care of before this country can really get back on it's feet. Our currency has been attacked! We must deal with that first
Al Qaeda became more involved during the war in Iraq. However, it backfired on them. Instead of gaining more support with the populous they became an unwanted presence there, acting not in accordance with what the people of Iraq wanted. They were not Allies. Nor were they Allies with Saddam. Al Qaeda arranged nothing specific with Saddam over their agenda, though there was some contact, Saddam always put himself first and would not have worked with them consistently to further THEIR goals.
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Hitchens is NOT a Republican, kids. Just because Matthews called him a Neocon (which is actually a rather dumb term given how much Democrats love war and shedding blood) does not take away his liberalism and no claims to the contrary. One difference with Hitchens is that he is not a lying liberal like most of the leaders in the party and movement are.
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@detahdomo Surely the public interest should be more localised, votes cast on the basis of public services and constituency (state, district) issues.
@MamaMario13 As Christopher Hitchens himself has admitted, being an atheist only means that one does not believe in God; it says nothing about one's political ideology, though I would concede that most atheists are socially liberal. (This is certainly the case for those who subscribe to Humanism, who are related to, but hardly synonymous with, those who identify as atheists.) By the way, there are certainly plenty of closeted atheist Republicans. US philanthropist Charles Beaird comes to mind.
"You agreed with going into Iraq. Barack disagreed with going into Iraq. You support Barack"---------- lol you would be an idiot to expect to constantly agree with your representative.
"Barack Obama's been, as he has with everything else actually his life, incredibly lucky."
I have to disagree with you, Chris. Obama's worked incredibly hard, not only in his academic life, attending (and doing very well) at Occidental College, Columbia, and Harvard Law School, but also in his professional life, serving as junior senator in the State of Illinois. As US President Thomas Jefferson observed, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
However, we now see that Barack does not do well at "thinking on his feet" and one of the most preposterous things ever said by anyone was his (Barack's) statement that knowing - having the fore-knowledge - that the surge in Iraq would indeed be "successful," he'd still NOT have voted for it ... backward logic & how utterly ridiculous. Hitchens was right when he prior pegged Obama as flaky and superficial.
Hitchens takes things at face value. Obama as now can be seen is the consumate liar. He has done the opposite of everything he promised to do when elected.
@jagg1951 This interview was almost two weeks before the election, so Hitchens, as well as the rest of us, was unaware of any future blunders by his administration. The issue here was that any responsible voter had no reason to vote for McCain/ Palin. At least Obama had the intellectual capacity to debate foreign and domestic opposition. If we had stuck McCain or Palin in front of Congress or Pakistani or Arabic leaders they would have fumbled and bumbled their way to no where.
granted about being before the election. I actually like Palin and other countries might find such a bumbling approach preferable to the blustering do it or wecome looking for weapons of mass destruction fake war on terrorism approach...
Hitchens follows a party on it's foreign policies rather than is ideology on economics etc... Wish he'd enter in domestic policy into his decisions about the presidency more.
Hitchens is not a republican, a democrat, or even an independent. Hitchens is a Hitchens and does whatever the hell a Hitchens wants to do respectively. That's what it means to be Hitchens, look it up.
Hitchens is snobby, nasty and hypocritical turd who needs to be put into his place. Why does anyone take this guy seriously ? First he cheerleads the Iraq war, parrots all the Bush's talking points like "The Russian Intelligence said he had WMD" with his brand of repugnant hubris.
Now that he's been discredited, he is all liberal and pro-Obama ? I don't want this turd on my side.
You just can't handle people who think for themselves, and hence end up semingly switching sides, because the sides you see don't happen to fit his view point.
And he isn't on you side. The fact you would use the phrase proves what I said above.
I can take him seriously, he is seriously smart and a great orator. Doesn't mean I agree with him on all his positions.
I can handle people who can think for themselves, but I appreciate your attempt to paint me as
an ignorant follower. My point is Hitchens helped cheerlead the Iraq invasion. The invasion that cost thousands of American and hundred thousands of Iraqi lives. It is not a trivial mistake and he should and will be held accountalbe for it.
You can think that about Iraq, Hitchens does not, and certainly hasn't changed his mind that that action was not just justified but morally imperitive.
He's views are self consistent and logical - they just happen not to fit into one of American political boxes.
You can disagree with him on Iraq, I do. But that doesn't make him hypocritical. Or a Bush parrot.
Maybe going on talkshows and parroting Bush's lies stands for courage and independent thinking in your book but not in my. His support for the Iraq invasion escpecially his arrogance and hubris while cheerleading the war, will always define my view of Hitches. I simply don't care for anything else this man has to say. I don't care his views on religion, middle east or etc. He's been discredited, his "independent" thinking means shit.
Let me put it in simple language for you. If a man supports genocide in a cowardly and despicable way, but then has "thoughtfull" views on other topics. He is first and foremost a genocide supporter, everything else comes second.
Chris Htichens is showing here how clings desperately to his youthful Trotskyite illusions. He knew what kind of a lefty nutter Obama is & he hoped he would finally get his pure democratic revolution.
But really, for someone who pays such close attention to foreign policy, to turn against McCain is absurd. McCain has always been solid on foreign policy & would have passionately advanced the policies Hitchens has spent such energy advocating.
The Founders weren't saints: they had wives, mistresses & promoted the pirating of His Majesty's ships. There was a thriving black market in the Colonies that John Hanson & John Jay did quite well with. These men always claimed to be Protestant Christians. There are many quotes floating about fr. private correspondence & taken out-of-context seemingly conveying "atheistic" notions. So? All men are blasphemers, all men are roguish, yet not 1 of these men claimed "atheism" as their Faith.
Don't be silly, AaronCee. I will not consider not voting in the future and your suggestion is odious at best and extremely insulting at worst. I am a liability to the republic? My, you are the dramatic one aren't you? Are you old enough to vote? If so, did you actually vote for Obama -- a senator who had almost no legislative experience, no foreign policy experience, and actually LESS executive experience than Sarah Palin? I wonder.
It is a wonder how Sarah Palin, famous as a desperate act of John McCain, insuring that Obama won in a LANDSLIDE and DITCHING her post to write a book is taken seriously AT ALL. IS she the best Republicans have? Then Democrats certainly have the right to question the intelligence of the Republican constituents. AND since Obama's stance is for IMPROVING the quality of life for TAXPAYERS, making sure everybody has HEALTHCARE, Democrats have the right to question the morality of those in the right.
@tyruk People cum on themselves when this guy Hitchens speaks and I just don't get it. If indeed he is as intelligent as people make him out to be then why is he arguing republican/democrat? Any reasonable and rational person knows that it is nothing more than a movie for public consumption? Always has been and always will be. On that basis everything he says, to me, is suspect.
@tyruk People cum on themselves when this guy Hitchens speaks and I just don't get it. If indeed he is as intelligent as people make him out to be then why is he arguing republican/democrat? Any reasonable and rational person knows that it is nothing more than a movie for public consumption Always has been and always will be. On that basis everything he says, to me, is suspect.
@tyruk And I agree also. He is obviously smart and well spoken. It's just awkward to me to see such a bright man miss the bigger argument. It just doesn't make sense.
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I hope Hitchens is proud of the OFA brownshirt zombies that are "canvassing" door to door with their petitions to "pledge loyalty to Obama's economic stimulus plan".
It seems Hitchens is a flaming hypocrite, supporting free will over organized religion (something even as a Catholic I can agree with), and turning a blind eye to Obama inspired corporate fascism.
Stop going on. Mc Cain would have done exactly the same. The GOP showed how moronic it was when they picked a bible basher as its second in command. Palin made it impossible for significant numbers of people to vote Republican.
Furthermore, the constant insinuations that Obama was a terrorist were even more ridiculous.
All the Republicans cry about Obama now and about government interference but yet they ostracised Ron Paul who is the only true conservative.
DEMOCRATS are Bible-bashers, dopey. You might be thinking of the term Bible-thumper.
And as for making it impossible to vote Republican, too bad she wasn't a Democrat (their hatred of the real God notwithstanding). Because if a Democrat (and provided the hateful lefties in the media and their dumb brainwashed liberals on youtube and elsewhere were right about her being dumb) she would fit right in with one of the stupidest vice presidents the country has ever known in Joe Biden
@randalusa No, the term "bible-basher" is used along with "bible-thumper", it's used especially in other Western countries such as the UK, Australia and New Zealand but not so much in the US.
I agree with Mr. Hitchens... at least McCain didn't win, because four years down the line, he'd croak at some point, or become seriously ill. Then we'd have a female Bush in office.
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The intellectual, social, economic and physical infrastructure were destroyed by Hussein. His sons were poised to continue that destruction for the next 30 years.
Apparently not, my 18 inch telescope tells me otherwise.
"Look it up" ??? Are you suggesting we prove your hypothesis as to there being alien bases on the moon by typing the question into a search engine? May I suggest actually looking on the Moon, it's actually not that hard.
What I meant by "look it up" was that you research the meaning of Von Neumann machine.
I wouldn't be so sure about the absence of alien bases if I were you.
This planet of ours has been reflecting blue-green light into the universe for 2 billion years. Purple light possibly for 2 billion before that. These colors advertise life.
The largest galaxy-Abell 2029 cluster, 1.07 billion light years away, has been receiving this light for 3 billion years.
Hitchens isn't a Republican, he is an independent thinker, something anyone who slavishly and blindly follows any political party would do well to emulate.
Oh, and by the way, a quick search just revealed all the pictures you are talking of so maybe you want to retract your statement?
Also, none of these missions have been assigned to take detailed pics of the moon (that's the job of the LRO) rather, they are there for other scientific analytical reasons such as 'radio interference' to study the lunar gravity field using the VLBI.
Right, i guess i stand corrected. There aren't just a couple of pictures from the JAXA website, there are hundreds with a resolution of 10m of both the light and dark sides of the moon. You need to research things before making baseless statements.
I guess you'll now tell me that they airbrushed out all the moon bases huh?
Stop buying into conspiracy.. It only serves to make you look silly and highly suggestible.
Yes it makes perfect sense because the JAXA mission has not said its main mission is to take high resolution images of the moon. Rather, it is there to study the gravitational and magnetic field of the moon.
And yes, 10m resolution images are up on the jaxa website, I just looked at them, so they do exist. Stop making fanatical statements which have utterly no basis in reality.
I'm afraid the burden of proof is with you as you're the one claiming there are aliens on the moon, not me. The lack of pictures does not constitute evidence, rather, the lack of evidence doesn't support your theory.
As to this wager, sure, i'm game. Just give me all of your personal information and bank details and i'll be happy to wire the money when i'm proven wrong. :)
as far as the japanese go, don't you think its a little bit odd that just when the selene orbiter arrived at the moon several top officials in the executive part of their government came out and said they thought some ufo's are extraterrestrial?
true 10m images of the areas in question don't exist. nice try
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eat a pile of shit you fucking moron son of a bitch! i hope your whole family dies a painful death in a car fire! and i will fucking slit your throat, shit down your neck and piss on your corpse!!!
What kind of logic is that? You know that Bush is doing something right when a pro-war giant like Hitches is supporting him. You beg the fucking question.
Ron Paul knows more about the Middle-East than any other candidate and Obama.
Getting involved in every Foreign conflict and policing the world is not making us safe.
We need someone who knows what is going on. America will not last as a power if we keep doing what we have been doing throughout the world. We need someone who puts America first. We need to get our debt taken care of before this country can really get back on it's feet. Our currency has been attacked! We must deal with that first
bradlom80 1 week ago
Al Qaeda became more involved during the war in Iraq. However, it backfired on them. Instead of gaining more support with the populous they became an unwanted presence there, acting not in accordance with what the people of Iraq wanted. They were not Allies. Nor were they Allies with Saddam. Al Qaeda arranged nothing specific with Saddam over their agenda, though there was some contact, Saddam always put himself first and would not have worked with them consistently to further THEIR goals.
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lightandbeautiful 4 months ago
Hitchens is NOT a Republican, kids. Just because Matthews called him a Neocon (which is actually a rather dumb term given how much Democrats love war and shedding blood) does not take away his liberalism and no claims to the contrary. One difference with Hitchens is that he is not a lying liberal like most of the leaders in the party and movement are.
randalusa 4 months ago
I don't mind the interviewer usually, but now he was kinda annoyingly interruptive...
toverkleet 5 months ago
if everybody analyzed the nominees like Hitchens we, this would be an outstanding country.
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TheServiceWeb 6 months ago
Foreign policy shouldn't be top of the debating list when electing a new leader.
GeorgesBarras 7 months ago
@GeorgesBarras Why's that?
detahdomo 6 months ago
@detahdomo Surely the public interest should be more localised, votes cast on the basis of public services and constituency (state, district) issues.
GeorgesBarras 6 months ago
how can atheists vote republican? hitch even said himself that palin is a religious fanatic
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writersblock26 6 months ago
@MamaMario13 As Christopher Hitchens himself has admitted, being an atheist only means that one does not believe in God; it says nothing about one's political ideology, though I would concede that most atheists are socially liberal. (This is certainly the case for those who subscribe to Humanism, who are related to, but hardly synonymous with, those who identify as atheists.) By the way, there are certainly plenty of closeted atheist Republicans. US philanthropist Charles Beaird comes to mind.
writersblock26 6 months ago
funny given mccains recent exploits
SoFarAreWe 8 months ago
women of the right, the left, ..i... gyaaa *headasplodes*
friendlycakeasaurus 8 months ago
"You agreed with going into Iraq. Barack disagreed with going into Iraq. You support Barack"---------- lol you would be an idiot to expect to constantly agree with your representative.
VALENTINEBEAMS 9 months ago
Men of the right, women of the right, men of the left, women of the left, and women on the right.
OhManTFE 9 months ago
lol i thought the world forgot about mcaine by now
highlanderdurp 10 months ago
@highlanderdurp Youtube never forgets.
VALENTINEBEAMS 9 months ago
Hey, Hitchens is wearing a poppy, very admirable.
oo1cookie 1 year ago
"Barack Obama's been, as he has with everything else actually his life, incredibly lucky."
I have to disagree with you, Chris. Obama's worked incredibly hard, not only in his academic life, attending (and doing very well) at Occidental College, Columbia, and Harvard Law School, but also in his professional life, serving as junior senator in the State of Illinois. As US President Thomas Jefferson observed, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
writersblock26 1 year ago
"...People like that...crackpots."
Ahh Hitch. Stick around buddy!
Nishap739 1 year ago
@Nishap739 Yes that was a deft remark on our current politics.
mammers11 1 year ago
However, we now see that Barack does not do well at "thinking on his feet" and one of the most preposterous things ever said by anyone was his (Barack's) statement that knowing - having the fore-knowledge - that the surge in Iraq would indeed be "successful," he'd still NOT have voted for it ... backward logic & how utterly ridiculous. Hitchens was right when he prior pegged Obama as flaky and superficial.
Artisticer 1 year ago
Hitchens takes things at face value. Obama as now can be seen is the consumate liar. He has done the opposite of everything he promised to do when elected.
jagg1951 1 year ago
@jagg1951 This interview was almost two weeks before the election, so Hitchens, as well as the rest of us, was unaware of any future blunders by his administration. The issue here was that any responsible voter had no reason to vote for McCain/ Palin. At least Obama had the intellectual capacity to debate foreign and domestic opposition. If we had stuck McCain or Palin in front of Congress or Pakistani or Arabic leaders they would have fumbled and bumbled their way to no where.
lilsolis 8 months ago
@lilsolis
granted about being before the election. I actually like Palin and other countries might find such a bumbling approach preferable to the blustering do it or wecome looking for weapons of mass destruction fake war on terrorism approach...
jagg1951 8 months ago
Hitchens follows a party on it's foreign policies rather than is ideology on economics etc... Wish he'd enter in domestic policy into his decisions about the presidency more.
HSAdestroy 1 year ago
Hitchens is not a republican, a democrat, or even an independent. Hitchens is a Hitchens and does whatever the hell a Hitchens wants to do respectively. That's what it means to be Hitchens, look it up.
CommanderC4 1 year ago 5
Hitchens said he was wrong about obama so he joined the republican party.
darkfur35 1 year ago
"he looks weird" lol
louiscfc93 1 year ago
Hitchens is right on Iraq!
TylerHinds 1 year ago
Ron Paul 2012
TheGoalSetter 1 year ago
Hitchens is a Republican.
darkfur35 1 year ago
@darkfur35 Ok, solve this riddle then: he's against the war on drugs and for socialized medicine.
boertush 1 year ago
@darkfur35 Fuck off. He's no where near a republican.
Learn your facts and drop your dogma
xn117 1 year ago
@xn117 Your rude. hitchens joined the Republican party last year. Get your facts straight before you mouth off rude comments. Read a book.
darkfur35 1 year ago
@darkfur35 Support this claim - where did you read that Hitchens is a Republican?
redteamla 1 year ago
@redteamla New York Times
darkfur35 1 year ago 2
@darkfur35 WRONG
UtopiaMinor666 1 year ago
so what is Hitchens? Liberal? Conservative? Centrist?
anthonym267 1 year ago
Hitchens is a Republican.
darkfur35 1 year ago
Hitchens just has one ability. To see where the tide turns in the world of "underground" thinking is and flows with it, for money.
Hypocritical ass.
tftmc 1 year ago
Hitchens is snobby, nasty and hypocritical turd who needs to be put into his place. Why does anyone take this guy seriously ? First he cheerleads the Iraq war, parrots all the Bush's talking points like "The Russian Intelligence said he had WMD" with his brand of repugnant hubris.
Now that he's been discredited, he is all liberal and pro-Obama ? I don't want this turd on my side.
No that he's been dis
iamalittlespy 1 year ago
@iamalittlespy
You just can't handle people who think for themselves, and hence end up semingly switching sides, because the sides you see don't happen to fit his view point.
And he isn't on you side. The fact you would use the phrase proves what I said above.
I can take him seriously, he is seriously smart and a great orator. Doesn't mean I agree with him on all his positions.
jedfa987 1 year ago
@jedfa987
I can handle people who can think for themselves, but I appreciate your attempt to paint me as
an ignorant follower. My point is Hitchens helped cheerlead the Iraq invasion. The invasion that cost thousands of American and hundred thousands of Iraqi lives. It is not a trivial mistake and he should and will be held accountalbe for it.
iamalittlespy 1 year ago
@iamalittlespy
You can think that about Iraq, Hitchens does not, and certainly hasn't changed his mind that that action was not just justified but morally imperitive.
He's views are self consistent and logical - they just happen not to fit into one of American political boxes.
You can disagree with him on Iraq, I do. But that doesn't make him hypocritical. Or a Bush parrot.
jedfa987 1 year ago
@jedfa987
Maybe going on talkshows and parroting Bush's lies stands for courage and independent thinking in your book but not in my. His support for the Iraq invasion escpecially his arrogance and hubris while cheerleading the war, will always define my view of Hitches. I simply don't care for anything else this man has to say. I don't care his views on religion, middle east or etc. He's been discredited, his "independent" thinking means shit.
iamalittlespy 1 year ago
@jedfa987
Let me put it in simple language for you. If a man supports genocide in a cowardly and despicable way, but then has "thoughtfull" views on other topics. He is first and foremost a genocide supporter, everything else comes second.
iamalittlespy 1 year ago
@iamalittlespy
Since he doesn't support genocide your logic fails at the first premise.
You don't have to like him, you don't have to agree with him, you can find his arguments stupid, you can say he was completely mistaken on Iraq.
but you can't say he supports genocide. That's just ludicrious.
jedfa987 1 year ago
You clearly haven't been tracking Hitch's thinking on the war and bush / obama. You appear as an idiot subsequently.
SkinnerSG 1 year ago
Chris Htichens is showing here how clings desperately to his youthful Trotskyite illusions. He knew what kind of a lefty nutter Obama is & he hoped he would finally get his pure democratic revolution.
But really, for someone who pays such close attention to foreign policy, to turn against McCain is absurd. McCain has always been solid on foreign policy & would have passionately advanced the policies Hitchens has spent such energy advocating.
Hitchens needs to finally give up the old Marx.
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The Founders weren't saints: they had wives, mistresses & promoted the pirating of His Majesty's ships. There was a thriving black market in the Colonies that John Hanson & John Jay did quite well with. These men always claimed to be Protestant Christians. There are many quotes floating about fr. private correspondence & taken out-of-context seemingly conveying "atheistic" notions. So? All men are blasphemers, all men are roguish, yet not 1 of these men claimed "atheism" as their Faith.
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JGL53 2 years ago
Don't be silly, AaronCee. I will not consider not voting in the future and your suggestion is odious at best and extremely insulting at worst. I am a liability to the republic? My, you are the dramatic one aren't you? Are you old enough to vote? If so, did you actually vote for Obama -- a senator who had almost no legislative experience, no foreign policy experience, and actually LESS executive experience than Sarah Palin? I wonder.
chrisman737 2 years ago
It is a wonder how Sarah Palin, famous as a desperate act of John McCain, insuring that Obama won in a LANDSLIDE and DITCHING her post to write a book is taken seriously AT ALL. IS she the best Republicans have? Then Democrats certainly have the right to question the intelligence of the Republican constituents. AND since Obama's stance is for IMPROVING the quality of life for TAXPAYERS, making sure everybody has HEALTHCARE, Democrats have the right to question the morality of those in the right.
brelfan 2 years ago
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Hilarious. Hitchens does not want to vote for McCain because he is "older" and "looks weird." Another mindless Obamanite.
chrisman737 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but "mindless" and "Hitchens" do not compute.
tyruk 2 years ago 43
@tyruk People cum on themselves when this guy Hitchens speaks and I just don't get it. If indeed he is as intelligent as people make him out to be then why is he arguing republican/democrat? Any reasonable and rational person knows that it is nothing more than a movie for public consumption? Always has been and always will be. On that basis everything he says, to me, is suspect.
joemoe23 6 months ago
@tyruk People cum on themselves when this guy Hitchens speaks and I just don't get it. If indeed he is as intelligent as people make him out to be then why is he arguing republican/democrat? Any reasonable and rational person knows that it is nothing more than a movie for public consumption Always has been and always will be. On that basis everything he says, to me, is suspect.
joemoe23 6 months ago
@joemoe23
I do agree that the hero worship for Hitchens needs to come to an end. But he is a smart guy, and that's all I was saying.
tyruk 6 months ago
@tyruk And I agree also. He is obviously smart and well spoken. It's just awkward to me to see such a bright man miss the bigger argument. It just doesn't make sense.
joemoe23 6 months ago
Correct me if Im wrong but did he say 'take all the semites out of the party' ???
HailRasec 2 years ago
I believe he said anti-semites out of the party.
twistidimage 2 years ago
watch?v=qfBzSWKh5qo
matti1080 2 years ago
6:14 speaking of senile....
MadAsAHatter87 2 years ago 4
haha, yeah whoops
liambartley 2 years ago
that was hilarious
unchie979 2 years ago
dont' agree w/ his views on iraq... but otherwise he's incredibly intelligent
traderflint 2 years ago
He is a trotskyist, it is natural for him to be hawkish
tonyac42 2 years ago
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I hope Hitchens is proud of the OFA brownshirt zombies that are "canvassing" door to door with their petitions to "pledge loyalty to Obama's economic stimulus plan".
It seems Hitchens is a flaming hypocrite, supporting free will over organized religion (something even as a Catholic I can agree with), and turning a blind eye to Obama inspired corporate fascism.
julebuggy 2 years ago
Stop going on. Mc Cain would have done exactly the same. The GOP showed how moronic it was when they picked a bible basher as its second in command. Palin made it impossible for significant numbers of people to vote Republican.
Furthermore, the constant insinuations that Obama was a terrorist were even more ridiculous.
All the Republicans cry about Obama now and about government interference but yet they ostracised Ron Paul who is the only true conservative.
rgman268 2 years ago 20
@rgman268
DEMOCRATS are Bible-bashers, dopey. You might be thinking of the term Bible-thumper.
And as for making it impossible to vote Republican, too bad she wasn't a Democrat (their hatred of the real God notwithstanding). Because if a Democrat (and provided the hateful lefties in the media and their dumb brainwashed liberals on youtube and elsewhere were right about her being dumb) she would fit right in with one of the stupidest vice presidents the country has ever known in Joe Biden
randalusa 4 months ago
@randalusa No, the term "bible-basher" is used along with "bible-thumper", it's used especially in other Western countries such as the UK, Australia and New Zealand but not so much in the US.
Task5003 2 months ago
Is Hitch wearing on his lapel what I think he's wearing on his lapel? Despite the fact that it's American television and it's not November?
Weirfan69 2 years ago
Whats he wearing on his lapel (I'm not British, so I'm not sure what you are referencing).
ldfmeile 2 years ago
It looks like a poppy that people wear on British tv shows in November to commemorate the WWI war dead.
It's not a biggie, just seemed curious and I was wondering if anyone knew.
Weirfan69 2 years ago
Yes it is. British people in general just wear it to commemorate the WW1 but I am not sure about WW2.
It is in reference to the fields of red poppies that grew on the fields of Flanders in France, on which many serviceman died.
rgman268 2 years ago
I agree with Mr. Hitchens... at least McCain didn't win, because four years down the line, he'd croak at some point, or become seriously ill. Then we'd have a female Bush in office.
iamericwhite 2 years ago
Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820
xfvkemosx 2 years ago 2
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a
distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the
endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose, that different species
of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may possess different qualifications.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 drawing his views on the blacks from the leading science of his day.
mgundy 2 years ago
Matthews is the only journalist who is not intimidated by Hitchens. It's a good interview. Very entertaining.
zumpano21 2 years ago
i mean...i like hitchens, but his stance on the war is puzzling to me. "the infastructure that saddam destroyed"...say what?
theblindowl2 3 years ago
The intellectual, social, economic and physical infrastructure were destroyed by Hussein. His sons were poised to continue that destruction for the next 30 years.
ldfmeile 2 years ago
The moon, apparently is covered with von newman machine bases. (look it up) if you don't know what von newman machines are)
We need to let religious people know this fact.
Disillusionment? Yes. This is the way to destroy fundamentalism.
Another good idea is to give free internet via geo synchronous satellites over every muslim country on earth.
UFO + free satellite internet = the end of fundamentalism = happy hitchens
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Apparently not, my 18 inch telescope tells me otherwise.
"Look it up" ??? Are you suggesting we prove your hypothesis as to there being alien bases on the moon by typing the question into a search engine? May I suggest actually looking on the Moon, it's actually not that hard.
MilesB1975 3 years ago
What I meant by "look it up" was that you research the meaning of Von Neumann machine.
I wouldn't be so sure about the absence of alien bases if I were you.
This planet of ours has been reflecting blue-green light into the universe for 2 billion years. Purple light possibly for 2 billion before that. These colors advertise life.
The largest galaxy-Abell 2029 cluster, 1.07 billion light years away, has been receiving this light for 3 billion years.
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
This looks like quite an interesting debate... Good to see that the level of debating his risen significatly since Google took over YouTube. Go on...
tigerdraft 3 years ago
Hitchens isn't a Republican, he is an independent thinker, something anyone who slavishly and blindly follows any political party would do well to emulate.
luciendelapeste 3 years ago 2
Pull your Trotsky head out of your ass! Obama is a complete fraud.
These criticisms of Obama will NOT go away.
Philanderer
Bisexual
Corrupt - Bough home for HALF OFF! Yea right
NOT a US citizen. (ever heard of the constituion hitch?)
Marxist
Racist
Bumbling stuttering fool YOUR NEW PRESIDENT!
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Philanderer? Bisexual? OH NOEZ
JackingtonKensington 3 years ago
lol
top2d2 3 years ago
I wouldn't care if he was bisexual.
bdk1234567 3 years ago
Written by someone called 'alienmoonbase'.
Nuff said really.
karadan100 3 years ago
Karada100-
Will you make a wager with me?
I will bet $1000 that the LRO (lunar reconnaissance orbiter) will not deliver the 1m resolution images promised.
If you don't have a job, i will lower the wager to $100.
BTW, there are 3 orbiters circling the moon right now from japan, china and india.
Since you seem to be so confident that there are no alien moon bases or artifacts on the moon please direct me to the images available to the public.
So, its an easy $1000 for you right?
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
You'll probably tell me that the images are stored with the WMD in iraq.
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Oh, and by the way, a quick search just revealed all the pictures you are talking of so maybe you want to retract your statement?
Also, none of these missions have been assigned to take detailed pics of the moon (that's the job of the LRO) rather, they are there for other scientific analytical reasons such as 'radio interference' to study the lunar gravity field using the VLBI.
karadan100 3 years ago
Right, i guess i stand corrected. There aren't just a couple of pictures from the JAXA website, there are hundreds with a resolution of 10m of both the light and dark sides of the moon. You need to research things before making baseless statements.
I guess you'll now tell me that they airbrushed out all the moon bases huh?
Stop buying into conspiracy.. It only serves to make you look silly and highly suggestible.
karadan100 3 years ago
Selene imaged apollo 15 and you can see the landing "halo" but not enough detail to see anything else.
So, do a search and compare the two images: 1 from nasa 40 yrs ago, and 1 from the japanese.
Which would you assume would show more clarity?
NASA's from 40 yrs ago is superior. Does that make any sense whatsoever to you?
UFO disclosure would destroy militant islam and general fundamentalism.
friendlly fire casualties? yes, but overall we will be better off knowing our place
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Yes it makes perfect sense because the JAXA mission has not said its main mission is to take high resolution images of the moon. Rather, it is there to study the gravitational and magnetic field of the moon.
And yes, 10m resolution images are up on the jaxa website, I just looked at them, so they do exist. Stop making fanatical statements which have utterly no basis in reality.
karadan100 3 years ago
some exist but not of the sites identified by george leonard or, more recently, Allan Sturm.
If you see some of Sturm's images you will think that, at the very least, they deserve another more detailed look.
That's all i'm asking. more detail of the sites in question
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
I'm afraid the burden of proof is with you as you're the one claiming there are aliens on the moon, not me. The lack of pictures does not constitute evidence, rather, the lack of evidence doesn't support your theory.
As to this wager, sure, i'm game. Just give me all of your personal information and bank details and i'll be happy to wire the money when i'm proven wrong. :)
karadan100 3 years ago
check out lunomaly and allan sturm's collection
as far as the japanese go, don't you think its a little bit odd that just when the selene orbiter arrived at the moon several top officials in the executive part of their government came out and said they thought some ufo's are extraterrestrial?
true 10m images of the areas in question don't exist. nice try
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
I love how Hitch says McCain isn't qualified to be president at 73.
But never mentions the fact the Obama wasn't even born in the USA and is therefore not constitutionally qualified.
So, the constitution is just a guide? The law?
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Hawaii is a foreign country?
top2d2 3 years ago
He was born in Kenya. His Kenyan granny claimed to have been there.
If he wasn't born in Kenya, why doesn't he produce the documentation that was not doctored?
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
He was born in Kenya. His Kenyan granny claimed to have been there.
--provide me with evidence, and not just the "chopped" version of it.
listen to it til the end.
/watch?v=tGWcD5OHm08
If he wasn't born in Kenya, why doesn't he produce the documentation that was not doctored?
-before you ask that question, you first have to prove that it was "doctored."
top2d2 3 years ago
I'm TOTALLY against hitchens about the war in Iraq and the war itself. But i do like his views about our irrational dependence on any religion.
nuff said.
smellyfooty 3 years ago 2
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eat a pile of shit you fucking moron son of a bitch! i hope your whole family dies a painful death in a car fire! and i will fucking slit your throat, shit down your neck and piss on your corpse!!!
hamsterpoop 3 years ago
Are you a Muslim extremist?
NwZ2 3 years ago
didn't you forget to put a jihad on him?
begily 3 years ago
Wow. Empty, anonymous threats made on YouTube. You can't possibly do anything more irrelevant.
williampaul05 3 years ago
nigger
hamsterpoop 3 years ago
I'm tired of our Government taking barking orders from the U.K.
Gettinghitonattheban 3 years ago
I think you mean the obverse?
whiff1962 3 years ago
same old hawkish rubbish by warmonger Hitch
rodeo179 3 years ago
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This is not a threat, but if Obama wins I suspect that there will be a lot of people who will be trying to end his presidency.
ALready we've arrest a couple of kooks who wanted to kill him.
Don't hate the messenger, but THE USA IS NOT READY FOR A BLACK SIXTIES STYLE PRESIDENT.
Hitch needs to get off the west coast, its affecting his judgement.
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
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Hitchens, like Mathews is the coward who gives blowjobs in prison for extra rice.
He has made a living beating up on religious lunatics (picking the low hanging fruit if you will)
Now he is hedging his bets.
His only consistent argument against McCain is that he is old and weird and has a weak voice?
Shame on you Hitch. You're a lot shallower than I ever thought. GO back to england you fat F*ck!
alienmoonbase 3 years ago
Oh dear you silly racist ignoramus.
lamplighteyes 3 years ago
He said he was senile, and not qualified to be the president at age 73.
Raford146 3 years ago
You know Obama is doing something right when a pro-war giant like Hitchens is supporting him.
GodoftheGeeks 3 years ago
What kind of logic is that? You know that Bush is doing something right when a pro-war giant like Hitches is supporting him. You beg the fucking question.
MetaMorphy 3 years ago
He's not "supporting Bush"
RGnack 3 years ago
No, he isn't. But the logic is parallel. It is called an analogy, stupid.
MetaMorphy 3 years ago
Is Hitchens a "republirat"? That's a bit childish.
ThePissedOffAtheist 3 years ago
But Hitchens never was a Republican.
Is it now so that if you defend military action against dictators and death-worshiping terrorists you are automatically a Repbulican?
That sounds pretty ignorant and closed-minded on your part.
lollygager3664 3 years ago 15
And patronising and insulting to democrats who are against Al-Qaeda.
ThePissedOffAtheist 3 years ago
He is equally dismissive of Bush's religion. Get over it x
xXxCondomBoyxXx 3 years ago
How does that relate to my coment?
SpellboundSolution 3 years ago
I dont know if ur lollygager or pissedoffatheist.
xXxCondomBoyxXx 3 years ago
There's a mistake in the title. Chris Hitchens isn't a republican.
charlesvan13 3 years ago 3
Great job Hitchens!
boiiinng 3 years ago
Didn't that woman scratch it in her own face? The letter's back to front! A common mistake for a common trick.
ThePissedOffAtheist 3 years ago
thank you 4 posting
AIDINSWE 3 years ago