I know right...it takes so much intellect to go on stage or tv shows that already have an agenda to push evolution fairytales and tell people that don't research anything themselves how to think. Nobodys ever done that before...except for the nazi's and hitler used evolution to present his supreme race theory. oh and communist russia pushed atheism and outlawed the bible so killing millions of people wouldn't look so bad. The gov. takes on the God roll when theres nothing higher to answer too.
@tamer1236 Wikipedia: Hitchens has written of his homosexual experiences when in boarding school in his memoir, "Hitch-22." These experiences continued in his college years when he allegedly had relationships with two men who eventually became a part of the Thatcher government.
Was sodomite Christ' Hitchens' hollow death an early Christmas gift, or retribution for the total-war that he endorsed against the mothers & children of the Arab sphere?
The people on this planet need to seriously consider compiling a list of all of Hitchens followers and expelling them from Earth. Send them with a stock of O2 producing algae to Mars and let these genetic misfires set up their own society based on Hitch's ideas.
I see a bloodbath by day 5 after landing with all of them dead of a variety of causes within two weeks. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hitchens is synonymous with defective genes and poor character and his followers are same.
I was amazed at how much respect Lou Dobbs gave to a nonbeliever. It was if he was saying "I would be on your side BUT, The Republican Party PAYS me way more than you could ever pay me." So there it is. You can come to your own conclusions.
I've always had a great interest in science. I used to be a fundamentalist Christian but now how awesome it is, and I do mean AWESOME, to read and learn about science without having to morph that to fit with a belief in a 6,000 year old Earth. Now that I'm an atheist I can spend hours thinking about the distant future since I know Jesus isn't going to come back and destroy the Earth. I deeply enjoy hearing people like Hitchens and Hawking speak!
Not even 5 years ago he looked pretty darn healthy. Cancer is a horrible beast. Many millions of free thinkers carry on your message and vigor Christopher.
I respect Dobbs for how he handled this interview--not because of his obvious respect for Hitch, but for his treatment of the ideas that Hitch so bravely and admiringly stood for.
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Hitchens was a shallow thinker and critic who missed the whole point of religion and misplaced his faith in science. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and Hitchens wasted his as a critic of religion. Perhaps he should have been a philosopher-critic of science instead?
Yeah, so many atheists, humanists and free thinkers NOT blowing themselves up, NOT flying planes into buildings, NOT committing murders, NOT stoning women to death or throwing acid in their faces, NOT secretly supporting fellow terrorists, NOT burning the Koran, NOT protesting funerals,...etc etc
Can we now please concede that RELIGION is the problem?
@ZEDSTODT HAH, sodomite Marxist fanatic? You're a moronic clown that knows nothing of the subject you speak. He couldn't be further from a Marxist, you stupid fuckwit. At least know something of note about the things you attempt (and fail) to criticize in the future. Thanks.
@jackoffRUS Oh of course youre just an expert at everything, duh?? Good thing you know-it-alls are here to learn us silly proles O Great brainiac jackoff! Sweet username & page you got there troll.
@jackoffRUS I dont take orders from you. I suppose youre here because your intimate with Hitchens in a carnal way so you claim inside knowledge? Go away.
@ZEDSTODT Oooh, you don't take orders from me. What a rebel. It's funny when morons take imperative statements as mandates when there is actually an OBVIOUS implication that you should go to quiet time (before you keep embarrassing yourself further by exposing your utter ignorance and stupidity.) See there? I wasn't really telling you what to do, just making a friendly suggestion that's in your best interest. And no, I claim knowledge of Hitchens because I'm actually able to listen. Crazy, huh?
"Science does not know all! ''Correct''! But that does not prove that a god exists! "
No where did I state that the limitations of science can "prove" the existence of God. Rather was that science is credible, productive & of immense value in its proper (but narrowly empirical) arena. In fact, I completely reject what appears to be YOUR supposition that Christians have ever posited a "god" that is subject to naturalist inquiry of any kind.-God is TRANSCENDENT. The order of nature reflects Him
@shieldsff If God is transcendent, then he also transcends logic and reason; so any arguments made for his existence are necessarily false, since God transcends ALL logic and reason, whether it is for his existence or against it.
Also, the 'order' in nature is DEscriptive, not PREscriptive; that is, the order is only there because we are here to see it and recognize it. It doesn't exist as a separate, objective thing.
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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.
As a proud atheist and (I like to think) an intellectual, Hitchens is a hero of mine when it comes to his views on religion, politics, international relations, etc., etc. But if circumcision constitutes "genital mutilation", then I couldn't possibly be more pleased to have been mutilated!
I truly wish Christopher well in his battle with cancer. This world is in dire need of him. With all due respect to Sam Harris, A.C. Greyling and Richard Dawkins, no one is more inspirational than Hitch.
@shay33ish .nonsense.His charm,wit might well make you a blind follower but thats all.He always pushes a narrative and goes on shows with weak,next -to nothing pundits or hosts and mostly debates weak so called intelletucals.Im no genius by any means but he always pushes lies to suit his agenda.Thomas jefferson was not an atheist!! he wrote an entire book on it for goodness sake.
@laudrup90 Jefferson was a deist. He didn't believe in a personal god. His writings were his attempt to de-personalize the Christian God and make the idea more a Platonian idea of perfect forms and philosophy. Hitchen's point is that were Jefferson born now, where we have more answers now with the proper evidence thanks to empirical studies, he would be an atheist. Hitchens has yet to lie. You are right though, you're no genius by any means. You are definitely in the nonthinking camp...
I was surprised that Lou Dobbs was so reverential to Hitchens. Often, Dobbs was very confrontational with his guests. This video has some great comments, by the way.
Hitchens is such a fool to be stealing from Gerald Massey, Curcey Graves and their Zeitgeist descendants. Horus was not a virgin born, Isis and Osiris had sex and conceived him. Attis was not virgin born, Zeus dropped his semen on a mountain and it turned into a beast, the beast was tide to a tree by his testicles, the testicles bled in the earth and a pomegranate tree grew. A girl came and ate a pomegranate from the tree and became pregnant with Attis. None of these are parallels' to Jesus
@w0359529 "Zeus dropped his semen on a mountain and it turned into a beast, the beast was tide to a tree by his testicles, the testicles bled in the earth and a pomegranate tree grew. A girl came and ate a pomegranate from the tree and became pregnant with Attis. None of these are parallels' to Jesus"
Virgin births in "some form or another" was the exact quote from Dobbs. Yes they are parallels to Jesus' birth in that most are immaculate conceptions of "some form or another".
What the majority of people will realise, only years after both he and all of us are dead, is that Christopher Hitchens is a true "philosophe" - that is to say, a public intellectual interested in addressing and challenging the status quo. He is just another man, following in the tradition of great men before him like Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Locke. Unlike most of them though, at least he has the satisfaction of having been recognised in his own time.
Thanks to Hitchens for pointing out the stupidity of religion and how it poisons our world. My atheist friends will enjoy "Religious fanatic debates Atheist" on my channel.
The reason for Hitchens' popularity among impatient youngsters who sometimes call themselves atheists is that he reduces complex issues into simplistic slogan-like denunciations. Like here, the geo-politics of the middle east conflict is so convoluted and intricate that Hitchens finds it comforting to lump it all on religion. It's not that he's being insincere, but his honest reductionism comes from naivety and fear of the uncertain (incidentally,the two sources that fuel his atheism too)
@xtrmsprts This is one of those posts that remind me of the xkcd comic that suggested it was impossible to be sure if any YouTube comment was a joke or not. Either you are a master of subtle satire, and if so I salute you, or you're a moron.
@Arakon1 I take it that the truth stung the devoted hitchhead?If I may say so,sir, I've known your type.Go to any recent hitchens videos and the comment section will be fraught with servile adulation for "hitch" of the most slavish order.Now you may try to disassociate yourself from the disciples of guru hitch,but your protective filial devotion to your hitch betrays you.Once this human generator of histrionics and self-appointed prince of reason perishes,we can resume thoughtful argumentation
@xtrmsprts Not really, actually. Dig through a bunch of the old CSPAN phone-in shows featuring Hitchens that thefilmarchive has put on YouTube. You can accuse him of a lot of things (e.g. being fairly snobbish and overly dismissive at times) but reducing 'complex issues into simplistic slogan-like denunciations' isn't really one of them. And I sincerely doubt he's ever appointed himself 'Prince of Reason' anywhere, although I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong if this isn't the case
@Arakon1 He just did that here,sir.And he's made a career out of diminishing intellectual inquiry among young people by giving them reductionist hard-and-fast fantastic answers to complex world questions.Middle East: Islamism.Africa: pope,condoms & AIDS. Iraq War: Saddam,etc.Assuredly,each of these points factor into the situations,but chris promotes them as the sole causes and effectively shunts intellectual exploration in his cattle-minded followers.That's worthy of serious reprimand.
@Arakon1 contd... Finally,I did not use quotes around prince of reason,sir. Watch any of his debates and interviews over the past decade. With sly calculation, "hitch" casts an air of intellectual superiority and wanton bravado.He and his posse, with shameless contrivance, promote themselves as the reasonable in the debate.We're not arguing on the validity of the claim.I'm simply saying that you cannot deny Hitch's premeditated attempts to be the personification of Rationality.Pleasant evening.
@xtrmsprts I have to admit I just don't see it. To me it seems that the reason he might come across to you as reductionist is that since he's rather ardent and specific in his opinions and often seen in situations where he's standing in opposition to another speaker. If he's forever seen in opposition to specific points, which I believe he is, spending his energies explaining the importance of opposing whatever it is he's opposing then he could easily come across as fixated on them.
@Arakon1 Yes,that's not an invalid point you made.He does focus his concentration heavily on topics that he's passionate about.But the problem with that is one's mind becomes increasingly monomaniacal insofar as searching for one pattern or cause behind every article put forward.Consequently,his analyses become restrictive and reductionist.Finally,as to his propensity for bellicosity,I'll quote Buckley,"You have the right to be indignant but you are not right because you're indignant"
Love it !!! Loved the book----excellent job Higgins -- a new favorite alongside R. Dawkins and Stephen Hawkings. So glad I reached a point of being closer to truth after 37 yrs in organized religions. So proud of Dobbs and will now watch him in future.
Love it !!! Loved the book----excellent job Higgins -- a new favorite alongside R. Dawkins and Stephen Hawkings. So glad I reached a point of being closer to truth after 37 yrs in organized religions.
... Religions ends where philosophy begins just as alchemy ends & chemistry begins just as astrology ends where astronomy begins. What poetry !!! What a beautiful world, why can't i have my wish?
Jesus Christ is great The one and only way to God and Christ-opher Hitchens has chosen to take on the name of Christ as his name. His name contradicts his ideologies.
God and the implications thought when "God" is mentioned is one of the silliest things a man ever came up to,an all powered all knowing being,with an ethical code written to a book for us to follow,by the way even a god should have evolved(thus he is no god with the classical meaning)unless you believe he spawned with the mind to create the universe-planets-dinosaurs-apes-man-dna etc,and teach ethical codes.
Lou Dobbs isnt stupid, he knows he has entered the lions den with respect to Hitch and the subject at hand. Perhaps Dobbs himself is growing tiresome with the theocratic bullying and bullshit. Hitch is the only man on Earth who is inclined to expose religion's hatred and hypocricy so actively. I wish Dawkins and Harris would be as proactive, especially with the American media.
Buddha being born from a slit in his mother's side is ludicrous as "HISTORY" All buddhists know that the Buddha was A MAN and his philosophy to end suffering does not require a "virgin birth". Ridiculous. All of these personages, save Jesus, can be discarded historically OR Mythologically - I mean, come ON - "Mercury" is on the list?
I can understand why you see that other gods don't exist. I just don't understand why your skepticism falls short regarding the God you do believe. The miracles of Jesus are just as easily refuted. All you are left with is faith. All Apologetic arguments have been torn apart yet you still believe. When scientists are shown the fault in their work, they refine it.They don't continue using the same faulty logic. Religion is the only area of life that values faith over knowledge
Religious and thocratic "bullying" have NOTHING to do with the existence of God. I have watched many interviews with Hitch and I truly believe he doesn't believe in God because of the way we humans act. His entire argument has nothing to do, intellectually, with the idea that God cannot exist. In fact, he refuses most logic that concludes God. He is too caught up in religion to see that God must exist, or nothing would exist.
Just goes to show that it's entirely possible to have differing viewpoints in the same conversation, and there be no need for disrespect and/or namecalling.
I did no such thing. I simply observed two viewpoints being discussed rationally, which I'm assuming you're an atheist being that you typically categorize yourself and your constituents as "intelligent", which you should like. And no, name calling isn't solely the mechanism of people of faith; quite the contrary. Surely you're not so deluded to not have noticed the spewing vitriol to be found in virtually every corner of atheism.
hmm, a shame this dobbs fellow went off the rails with that birther nonsense, its rare to see a conservative pundit so friendly and approving of an atheist like Hitchens. I suppose its because Hitchens is obviously a patriot with a deep connection to the founding spirit of the country.
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I don't think Chistians 'hate' Hitchen. On the contrary, Christians LOVE everyone. That doesn't entail however, that there cannot be substantive, deep-seated, and vocal disagreement with someone's positions and arguments. Moreover, it is Hitchens who has stated w/o apology his complete and absolute right to HATE his enemies. He has argued that Jesus' ethic of love, mercy & forgiveness is immoral & repulsive.
huge props to dobbs for putting on this interview, obviously having read hitchins book (based on his references), and for giving due credibility to the message delivered. dobbs is a journalist that the world is aching for
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Goodness gracious This guy Mr Hitchens Has a beautiful voice If his nose was tattooed With only two front teeth In his toothless smile Would we really want to look At this English gents dial If he had no brains He'd be out the door Instead he dishes it out With dollops galore But I don't see any real substance in him Apart from his antipathy towards God From which he strengthens himself
I like Lou Dobbs, he has his beliefs, but he's reserved about them and keeps them to himself. Anytime you see Hitchens get angry with an interviewer its because they're doing everything in their power to nag him on. Dobbs treated him as an equal, and had a pleasant conversation, atta be Lou.
Ever since I turned my comment setting to only see comments rated 0 or better, I haven't seen any absurd creationist/fundamentalist ranting. It's beautiful.
I am so proud that Hitchens is an American citizen now. We need more people like him to stand up to religious bullying and stupidity. He is an inspiration to those of us in the free-thinking minority.
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Because he, like every other "scientists" or "expert educator/analyst," is arguing his opinion as if he gives it factual properties. If he does not believe in GOD that requires no explanation. However he rabbles on with an explanation and analysis about it as if he has discovered some irrefutable evidence to support his on foolish belief, or rather lack there of, as well as his idiotic evaluation of the belief in GOD.
Are you honestly trying to argue that Hitchens is nutcase because he thinks he's correct? You have more or less every great orator and debater to pick a bone with then.
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I'm not arguing that Hitchens is a nutcase because he thinks he is correct. Everyone who makes an argument thinks they are correct at the time of their argument. I say Hitchens is a nutcase because there is no foundation for his argument other than his own convictions and he is arguing as if there is concrete evidence that his convictions are irrefutably factual. Not based in any "facts" he has discovered but "facts" he has created to support his conviction.
The religious should be able to prove that their God exists, but they cannot and just say that their religious books prove He does. That is not enough. If he did exist he is responsible for millions of deaths. They say He knows what is happening, what is going to happen (the fall of a sparrow) and knows the mind and thoughts of everyone and what they are going to do in the future. Thus He knows that Hitler was going to the Jews, Stalin was going to kill millions, yet he did nothing.
Lou Dobbs. Thank you for existing, and doing your job quite properly. I've just come off watching a string of interviews and debates with Mr. Hitchens, and this is the only one where I can bear the interviewer and hear everything Hitchens is saying.
Mr. Hitchens congratulations on becoming a fellow American! Your voice is a welcome and a much needed addition to our national discussion. It would have been interesting if the issue of immigration was discussed as well with Mr. Dobbs.
I always had good feelings about Lou Dobbs. And after viewing this, my opinion has not changed. He, as nelsong5 pointed out, seemed very humble. The best part is how he is able to slide right through the interview professionally, saying plenty, without seeping in his own personal view on the subject WHATSOEVER. I was very impressed by this, and this is something O'Reilly needs to take notes on. Even if Dobbs is a Theist (I would presume), he has my respect, because we have his respect, clearly.
Interesting point about genital mutilation and virgin birth. It's almost as if these religious people want to take away a woman's status as a giver of life, a violent response against natural selection and the mating process. I mean, hell, look at the middle east situation with polygamy removing so many men from the gene pool (and subsequently driving them to extremism).
Man you would never see an actual interview like this on Faux news. Jesus christ! I can't believe I feel like thanking Lou Dobbs for doing his fucking job.
Yeah, you'd have Bill O'Reilly throwing spittle in his face screeching about being an enemy to morality and a disgrace to the memory of our fallen troops.
I have to say that I am very impressed. This was a great interview, the way interviews should be held. Questions were asked, and those questions were allowed to be answered. I recently heard of Mr. Hitchens and I must say I am very impressed with him.
No one to this day, that I've seen, from the religious camp has made an attempt to challenge this interview.
nyomythus 1 day ago
I know right...it takes so much intellect to go on stage or tv shows that already have an agenda to push evolution fairytales and tell people that don't research anything themselves how to think. Nobodys ever done that before...except for the nazi's and hitler used evolution to present his supreme race theory. oh and communist russia pushed atheism and outlawed the bible so killing millions of people wouldn't look so bad. The gov. takes on the God roll when theres nothing higher to answer too.
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@tamer1236 Wikipedia: Hitchens has written of his homosexual experiences when in boarding school in his memoir, "Hitch-22." These experiences continued in his college years when he allegedly had relationships with two men who eventually became a part of the Thatcher government.
Was sodomite Christ' Hitchens' hollow death an early Christmas gift, or retribution for the total-war that he endorsed against the mothers & children of the Arab sphere?
TheWorldFarOff 1 week ago
Lou Dobbs had so much class.
sgtortiz641 2 weeks ago
The people on this planet need to seriously consider compiling a list of all of Hitchens followers and expelling them from Earth. Send them with a stock of O2 producing algae to Mars and let these genetic misfires set up their own society based on Hitch's ideas.
I see a bloodbath by day 5 after landing with all of them dead of a variety of causes within two weeks. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hitchens is synonymous with defective genes and poor character and his followers are same.
MrTexasArcane 2 weeks ago
@MrTexasArcane The reason you see a bloodbath is because you are religious.
timtba 2 weeks ago
@MrTexasArcane Your the exact reason why he spoke out against religion; ignorance.
lutex442 2 weeks ago
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@MrTexasArcane Your the exact reason why he spoke out against religion; ignorance.
lutex442 2 weeks ago
@MrTexasArcane That's mighty Christlike of you.
oldnetfag 2 weeks ago
I was amazed at how much respect Lou Dobbs gave to a nonbeliever. It was if he was saying "I would be on your side BUT, The Republican Party PAYS me way more than you could ever pay me." So there it is. You can come to your own conclusions.
mannymmv 2 weeks ago
RIP christopher Hitchens
LextNevel 3 weeks ago
I just started liking Lou Dobbs!! He paid his respects to the Don!!!!!
valdostastate77 3 weeks ago
lou dodds disappoints again ..
914light 3 weeks ago
@914light - and so would I when you spell my name incorrectly.
577666 3 weeks ago
@577666 ...well I was gunna put doodler or doddle ...but just left incorrect at dodds ...because he is WRONG !!
914light 3 weeks ago
he should add Anakin Skywalker to that virgin birth list!
MagicMushroomCloud95 3 weeks ago 2
@MagicMushroomCloud95 i'm sure a lot of children believe in darth vader more than jesus. lol
weaselrh 3 weeks ago
I like Hitchens for his blue eyes...
;) j/k no homo
I miss this man sooo much !
test123ok 3 weeks ago
omg i have the same birthday as hitchens! yes!
Domm1121 3 weeks ago
I've always had a great interest in science. I used to be a fundamentalist Christian but now how awesome it is, and I do mean AWESOME, to read and learn about science without having to morph that to fit with a belief in a 6,000 year old Earth. Now that I'm an atheist I can spend hours thinking about the distant future since I know Jesus isn't going to come back and destroy the Earth. I deeply enjoy hearing people like Hitchens and Hawking speak!
Pillowpants8495 3 weeks ago
Fuck cancer.
projectpat0392 1 month ago 6
Not even 5 years ago he looked pretty darn healthy. Cancer is a horrible beast. Many millions of free thinkers carry on your message and vigor Christopher.
rhcpdave 1 month ago
I respect Dobbs for how he handled this interview--not because of his obvious respect for Hitch, but for his treatment of the ideas that Hitch so bravely and admiringly stood for.
grade21 1 month ago 6
This is one of the few times I've seen Hitchens treated with respect on national TV. It's great to see that.
TheFaceOfZach 1 month ago 7
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TheTarrado 1 month ago
Wow! The first timeI've ever seen Lou on his med's.
radarlove007 1 month ago
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Hitchens was a shallow thinker and critic who missed the whole point of religion and misplaced his faith in science. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and Hitchens wasted his as a critic of religion. Perhaps he should have been a philosopher-critic of science instead?
ajmacdonaldjr 1 month ago
@ajmacdonaldjr
yer right and spending your life on you knees worshipping a non existent sky fairy make so much more sense...NOT
assym2006 1 month ago
i'm getting sadder by the day of Hitchens' passing.
EsenHanIm 1 month ago
Lou Dobbs, job well done !!!!
I miss you Christopher Hitchens.
You were truly brilliant.
SamKnause 1 month ago 6
This was when Lou Dobbs was sane, and not a whacko.
Greg2600 1 month ago 3
Yeah, I agree with everyone saying Dobbs gained respect here. Acted surprisingly civil.
HamIsDie 1 month ago 5
@HamIsDie like dobbs or not - he is a professional - and not a barbarian
blessedfrog 1 month ago
Gained a lot of respect for Dobbs with this interview. No arrogance at all he simply just let Hitch speak.
Thehitch18 1 month ago 4
@Thehitch18 I agree...I'm totally shocked at how respectful Dobbs is here. I was expecting a far more standoffish posture on his part.
This was a great, thoughtful interview.
keefriff99 1 month ago
Dobbs: "It is a disturbing time..."
Yeah, so many atheists, humanists and free thinkers NOT blowing themselves up, NOT flying planes into buildings, NOT committing murders, NOT stoning women to death or throwing acid in their faces, NOT secretly supporting fellow terrorists, NOT burning the Koran, NOT protesting funerals,...etc etc
Can we now please concede that RELIGION is the problem?
pele6922 1 month ago 6
Who gives a damn what a soddomite Marxist fanatic such as Hitchens believes?
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT Since his book reached number one New York Times bestseller list, it's safe to say quite a few people care about what he believes.
cujagu 2 months ago
@cujagu Only a small minority of leftist fanatics comprise those phony lists. The NYT is a bullshit Marxist propaganda rag.
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT Oops, I didn't know you were a troll. Never mind then.
cujagu 2 months ago
@cujagu Imagine that an ogre calling me a troll. Thanks for the compliment!
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT HAH, sodomite Marxist fanatic? You're a moronic clown that knows nothing of the subject you speak. He couldn't be further from a Marxist, you stupid fuckwit. At least know something of note about the things you attempt (and fail) to criticize in the future. Thanks.
jagovRUS 2 months ago
@jackoffRUS Oh of course youre just an expert at everything, duh?? Good thing you know-it-alls are here to learn us silly proles O Great brainiac jackoff! Sweet username & page you got there troll.
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT Not a troll, and my username has zero to do with anything. You don't know Hitchens, so just go to quiet time.
jagovRUS 2 months ago
@jackoffRUS I dont take orders from you. I suppose youre here because your intimate with Hitchens in a carnal way so you claim inside knowledge? Go away.
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT Oooh, you don't take orders from me. What a rebel. It's funny when morons take imperative statements as mandates when there is actually an OBVIOUS implication that you should go to quiet time (before you keep embarrassing yourself further by exposing your utter ignorance and stupidity.) See there? I wasn't really telling you what to do, just making a friendly suggestion that's in your best interest. And no, I claim knowledge of Hitchens because I'm actually able to listen. Crazy, huh?
jagovRUS 2 months ago
@jackoffRUS Haha made you waste your time!
ZEDSTODT 2 months ago
@ZEDSTODT lolirony.
jagovRUS 2 months ago
4:50 Romolus? Horus? Is this some dialect I'm not familiar with?
Technicolor909 2 months ago
"Science does not know all! ''Correct''! But that does not prove that a god exists! "
No where did I state that the limitations of science can "prove" the existence of God. Rather was that science is credible, productive & of immense value in its proper (but narrowly empirical) arena. In fact, I completely reject what appears to be YOUR supposition that Christians have ever posited a "god" that is subject to naturalist inquiry of any kind.-God is TRANSCENDENT. The order of nature reflects Him
shieldsff 3 months ago
@shieldsff If God is transcendent, then he also transcends logic and reason; so any arguments made for his existence are necessarily false, since God transcends ALL logic and reason, whether it is for his existence or against it.
Also, the 'order' in nature is DEscriptive, not PREscriptive; that is, the order is only there because we are here to see it and recognize it. It doesn't exist as a separate, objective thing.
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
As a proud atheist and (I like to think) an intellectual, Hitchens is a hero of mine when it comes to his views on religion, politics, international relations, etc., etc. But if circumcision constitutes "genital mutilation", then I couldn't possibly be more pleased to have been mutilated!
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Hitchen's is just a cheap whore for know-it-all nerds. He massages their intellectual g-spot to a climax in hopes they'll go out and buy his books.
It's a no wonder Hitchen's is so adored by them. The first thing a nerd always does after having sex is fall in love. Get well, soon.
thethoughtsofme 4 months ago
amazing
cptmuska 5 months ago
they spelt romulus wrong.
EPICT0ASTER 5 months ago
Every time I listen to Hitchens, I need a dictionary and a thesaurus with me. LOVE THIS MAN!
scienceandresearch1 5 months ago
I truly wish Christopher well in his battle with cancer. This world is in dire need of him. With all due respect to Sam Harris, A.C. Greyling and Richard Dawkins, no one is more inspirational than Hitch.
grade21 5 months ago 36
@grade21 Just pray for him brother. Just pray.
cdog4100 1 month ago
@grade21 may he rest in peace.
nickosharp 1 month ago 2
Thank you for posting this, patient0Studios.
writersblock26 5 months ago 4
I have it on good authority that God is a confirmed atheist.
Easleytee 5 months ago 3
Dobbs is napkin
SirSWAGGARD 7 months ago
@SirSWAGGARD What?
writersblock26 5 months ago
Hitchens is one of the most intellectually important minds of our time!
shay33ish 9 months ago 69
@shay33ish .nonsense.His charm,wit might well make you a blind follower but thats all.He always pushes a narrative and goes on shows with weak,next -to nothing pundits or hosts and mostly debates weak so called intelletucals.Im no genius by any means but he always pushes lies to suit his agenda.Thomas jefferson was not an atheist!! he wrote an entire book on it for goodness sake.
laudrup90 7 months ago
@laudrup90 Jefferson was a deist. He didn't believe in a personal god. His writings were his attempt to de-personalize the Christian God and make the idea more a Platonian idea of perfect forms and philosophy. Hitchen's point is that were Jefferson born now, where we have more answers now with the proper evidence thanks to empirical studies, he would be an atheist. Hitchens has yet to lie. You are right though, you're no genius by any means. You are definitely in the nonthinking camp...
bl91978 6 months ago 2
Dose that guy belive in god? If he dose it's the most relaxed and praised comments if ever heard from a religous on hitchens book. Weird?!
8496ricko 9 months ago
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For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son Jesus Christ that whoever Believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting LIFE John 3:16
johnholby 9 months ago
I was surprised that Lou Dobbs was so reverential to Hitchens. Often, Dobbs was very confrontational with his guests. This video has some great comments, by the way.
Teflon65 10 months ago
Hitchens is such a fool to be stealing from Gerald Massey, Curcey Graves and their Zeitgeist descendants. Horus was not a virgin born, Isis and Osiris had sex and conceived him. Attis was not virgin born, Zeus dropped his semen on a mountain and it turned into a beast, the beast was tide to a tree by his testicles, the testicles bled in the earth and a pomegranate tree grew. A girl came and ate a pomegranate from the tree and became pregnant with Attis. None of these are parallels' to Jesus
w0359529 10 months ago
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@w0359529 "Zeus dropped his semen on a mountain and it turned into a beast, the beast was tide to a tree by his testicles, the testicles bled in the earth and a pomegranate tree grew. A girl came and ate a pomegranate from the tree and became pregnant with Attis. None of these are parallels' to Jesus"
Virgin births in "some form or another" was the exact quote from Dobbs. Yes they are parallels to Jesus' birth in that most are immaculate conceptions of "some form or another".
burkerow 9 months ago
@w0359529 What's funny is, it doesn't matter
iliveon 9 months ago
@w0359529
Nonsense. According to the myth, Osiris died and Isis resurrected him with NO penis before they "had sex".
Attis mother clearly wasn't penetrated according to your own story... so I would call that a FAIL.
BrennFilmcom 8 months ago
What the majority of people will realise, only years after both he and all of us are dead, is that Christopher Hitchens is a true "philosophe" - that is to say, a public intellectual interested in addressing and challenging the status quo. He is just another man, following in the tradition of great men before him like Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and Locke. Unlike most of them though, at least he has the satisfaction of having been recognised in his own time.
LondonPride25 10 months ago
Thanks to Hitchens for pointing out the stupidity of religion and how it poisons our world. My atheist friends will enjoy "Religious fanatic debates Atheist" on my channel.
Sweence 10 months ago
Religion is gonna tear this world apart.
willsk8zero 11 months ago 3
I've heard Hitchens say several times that the US constitution is the only one in the world that establishes a separation of church and state.
That's not true. The US may have been the first, but Australia also includes this important line in its constitution.
Pinage 1 year ago
@Pinage Ah, same with Canada but not from the absolute very start of it. The end roads meet but the journey was of a different road.
skydome29 10 months ago
@Pinage
Although your head of state is also the head of a religious sect.
Britonbear 6 months ago
@Britonbear Do you mean the PM or the Queen? The PM has no such religious role and the Queen has no such power.
Pinage 6 months ago
The reason for Hitchens' popularity among impatient youngsters who sometimes call themselves atheists is that he reduces complex issues into simplistic slogan-like denunciations. Like here, the geo-politics of the middle east conflict is so convoluted and intricate that Hitchens finds it comforting to lump it all on religion. It's not that he's being insincere, but his honest reductionism comes from naivety and fear of the uncertain (incidentally,the two sources that fuel his atheism too)
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
@xtrmsprts This is one of those posts that remind me of the xkcd comic that suggested it was impossible to be sure if any YouTube comment was a joke or not. Either you are a master of subtle satire, and if so I salute you, or you're a moron.
Arakon1 1 year ago
@Arakon1 I take it that the truth stung the devoted hitchhead?If I may say so,sir, I've known your type.Go to any recent hitchens videos and the comment section will be fraught with servile adulation for "hitch" of the most slavish order.Now you may try to disassociate yourself from the disciples of guru hitch,but your protective filial devotion to your hitch betrays you.Once this human generator of histrionics and self-appointed prince of reason perishes,we can resume thoughtful argumentation
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
@xtrmsprts Not really, actually. Dig through a bunch of the old CSPAN phone-in shows featuring Hitchens that thefilmarchive has put on YouTube. You can accuse him of a lot of things (e.g. being fairly snobbish and overly dismissive at times) but reducing 'complex issues into simplistic slogan-like denunciations' isn't really one of them. And I sincerely doubt he's ever appointed himself 'Prince of Reason' anywhere, although I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong if this isn't the case
Arakon1 1 year ago
@Arakon1 He just did that here,sir.And he's made a career out of diminishing intellectual inquiry among young people by giving them reductionist hard-and-fast fantastic answers to complex world questions.Middle East: Islamism.Africa: pope,condoms & AIDS. Iraq War: Saddam,etc.Assuredly,each of these points factor into the situations,but chris promotes them as the sole causes and effectively shunts intellectual exploration in his cattle-minded followers.That's worthy of serious reprimand.
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
@Arakon1 contd... Finally,I did not use quotes around prince of reason,sir. Watch any of his debates and interviews over the past decade. With sly calculation, "hitch" casts an air of intellectual superiority and wanton bravado.He and his posse, with shameless contrivance, promote themselves as the reasonable in the debate.We're not arguing on the validity of the claim.I'm simply saying that you cannot deny Hitch's premeditated attempts to be the personification of Rationality.Pleasant evening.
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
@xtrmsprts I have to admit I just don't see it. To me it seems that the reason he might come across to you as reductionist is that since he's rather ardent and specific in his opinions and often seen in situations where he's standing in opposition to another speaker. If he's forever seen in opposition to specific points, which I believe he is, spending his energies explaining the importance of opposing whatever it is he's opposing then he could easily come across as fixated on them.
Arakon1 1 year ago
@Arakon1 Yes,that's not an invalid point you made.He does focus his concentration heavily on topics that he's passionate about.But the problem with that is one's mind becomes increasingly monomaniacal insofar as searching for one pattern or cause behind every article put forward.Consequently,his analyses become restrictive and reductionist.Finally,as to his propensity for bellicosity,I'll quote Buckley,"You have the right to be indignant but you are not right because you're indignant"
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
awww, that was so cute :)
MsProcrastination101 1 year ago
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Build up that wall
EvoProd 1 year ago
Get well soon, Hitch!
gupsphoo 1 year ago 2
Richard Dawkins is wrong, God is not a delusion, but religious doctrine makes it seem that way.
check out "an atheist's argument for the existence of god" at AntisKeptic ointment at blogspot for thoughts and direction about religion and science.
AntisKepticOintment 1 year ago
Dobbs' tie is done quite horribly. Just sayin'.
tristicles 1 year ago
Love it !!! Loved the book----excellent job Higgins -- a new favorite alongside R. Dawkins and Stephen Hawkings. So glad I reached a point of being closer to truth after 37 yrs in organized religions. So proud of Dobbs and will now watch him in future.
jmsjoanne 1 year ago
Love it !!! Loved the book----excellent job Higgins -- a new favorite alongside R. Dawkins and Stephen Hawkings. So glad I reached a point of being closer to truth after 37 yrs in organized religions.
jmsjoanne 1 year ago
cool finally an interviewer with a brain
themaniusedtob 1 year ago
Build up that wall
ripsaw111 1 year ago
Dobbs` best interview.
shnimmuc 1 year ago
... Religions ends where philosophy begins just as alchemy ends & chemistry begins just as astrology ends where astronomy begins. What poetry !!! What a beautiful world, why can't i have my wish?
beaudashing 1 year ago
I always thought CNN was a right-wing fundo christian pop media station but this Lou Dobbs guy has proved me wrong!
Craptron2000 1 year ago
That was great. Hitch is god.
mooseguy62 1 year ago
Re Danish cartoons: What ever happened to the 1st Amendment and The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Stand up to religious bullies of every stripe America! Don't be scared. Be outraged at their arrogance!
drfoxcourt 1 year ago 3
Right on Lou. Right on!
yrusofukingay 1 year ago 2
Jesus Christ is great The one and only way to God and Christ-opher Hitchens has chosen to take on the name of Christ as his name. His name contradicts his ideologies.
psalm91forgee 1 year ago
@psalm91forgee - I don't think he chose his own name...did you?
tombeast17 1 year ago
@psalm91forgee Babies don't choose their names when they are baptized, moron.
byteresistor 1 year ago
if he was on fox it would have been a slightly different interview, fuck Fox
licensedhobo 1 year ago
What a treat, two of my favorite commentators together!
evergreenpotato 1 year ago
God and the implications thought when "God" is mentioned is one of the silliest things a man ever came up to,an all powered all knowing being,with an ethical code written to a book for us to follow,by the way even a god should have evolved(thus he is no god with the classical meaning)unless you believe he spawned with the mind to create the universe-planets-dinosaurs-apes-man-dna etc,and teach ethical codes.
agelistrator 1 year ago
Lou Dobbs isnt stupid, he knows he has entered the lions den with respect to Hitch and the subject at hand. Perhaps Dobbs himself is growing tiresome with the theocratic bullying and bullshit. Hitch is the only man on Earth who is inclined to expose religion's hatred and hypocricy so actively. I wish Dawkins and Harris would be as proactive, especially with the American media.
daytripper57 1 year ago
I love CH but I think he has too much faith in democracy
Sivels 1 year ago
Jesus i
PCrePs 1 year ago
Buddha being born from a slit in his mother's side is ludicrous as "HISTORY" All buddhists know that the Buddha was A MAN and his philosophy to end suffering does not require a "virgin birth". Ridiculous. All of these personages, save Jesus, can be discarded historically OR Mythologically - I mean, come ON - "Mercury" is on the list?
RationalPrejudice 1 year ago
@RationalPrejudice
I can understand why you see that other gods don't exist. I just don't understand why your skepticism falls short regarding the God you do believe. The miracles of Jesus are just as easily refuted. All you are left with is faith. All Apologetic arguments have been torn apart yet you still believe. When scientists are shown the fault in their work, they refine it.They don't continue using the same faulty logic. Religion is the only area of life that values faith over knowledge
futurepsycdoc 1 year ago
Religious and thocratic "bullying" have NOTHING to do with the existence of God. I have watched many interviews with Hitch and I truly believe he doesn't believe in God because of the way we humans act. His entire argument has nothing to do, intellectually, with the idea that God cannot exist. In fact, he refuses most logic that concludes God. He is too caught up in religion to see that God must exist, or nothing would exist.
RationalPrejudice 1 year ago
The reason religion cuts off a kid's genitals to any degree is to mentally bind them into submission for life.
It's a pimp-smack.
PR13STG0RD0 1 year ago
Gotta say that my respect for Lou Dobbs just skyrocketed
he is so respectful and intelligent
rapids090 1 year ago 2
Just goes to show that it's entirely possible to have differing viewpoints in the same conversation, and there be no need for disrespect and/or namecalling.
Atheists/creationists take heed.
TheDreamMechanic 1 year ago 3
@TheDreamMechanic
You're assuming that Lou dobs is a christian , you would be very wrong .
And for your info, name calling is the tool of the blind faith crowd , not the intelligent faithless.
adlerbr12 1 year ago
@adlerbr12
I did no such thing. I simply observed two viewpoints being discussed rationally, which I'm assuming you're an atheist being that you typically categorize yourself and your constituents as "intelligent", which you should like. And no, name calling isn't solely the mechanism of people of faith; quite the contrary. Surely you're not so deluded to not have noticed the spewing vitriol to be found in virtually every corner of atheism.
TheDreamMechanic 1 year ago
@TheDreamMechanic
You're insane , insults are first and foremost a catholic way of dealing with a person who is wining the argument .
adlerbr12 1 year ago
@adlerbr12
Here's a hint: The one who can actually spell "winning."
TheDreamMechanic 1 year ago
Amazing. A polite, non confrontational dialogue between an American interviewer and Christopher Hitchens. Kudos.
achromat666 2 years ago 2
Mencken had a bigger list in one of his essays on religion.
fomastephanovitch 2 years ago
Dobbs acting rationally? Nice sight to see. BTW Christopher Hitchens should be God
hbrtmran 2 years ago
If Hitchens were god he wouldnt believe in himself. lol
tiffanynicolega 2 years ago
I bet he was afraid to challenge hitchens
Alecal89 1 year ago
hmm, a shame this dobbs fellow went off the rails with that birther nonsense, its rare to see a conservative pundit so friendly and approving of an atheist like Hitchens. I suppose its because Hitchens is obviously a patriot with a deep connection to the founding spirit of the country.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 2 years ago
I like Lou Dobbs.
Battery9876 2 years ago
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I don't think Chistians 'hate' Hitchen. On the contrary, Christians LOVE everyone. That doesn't entail however, that there cannot be substantive, deep-seated, and vocal disagreement with someone's positions and arguments. Moreover, it is Hitchens who has stated w/o apology his complete and absolute right to HATE his enemies. He has argued that Jesus' ethic of love, mercy & forgiveness is immoral & repulsive.
shieldsff 2 years ago
your twisting his words
yes so when fred plelps write hitches is going to hell that's just all that love
rexzre 2 years ago 2
Dobbs is rational when he has ratings. When he's down he gets more radical.
Immigrants, now Obama-nonsense. He does well here, too bad present ratings-led news stops rational debate.
Look at Hitchens with Hannity or O'Reilly ffs
fuckyiuyiu 2 years ago
huge props to dobbs for putting on this interview, obviously having read hitchins book (based on his references), and for giving due credibility to the message delivered. dobbs is a journalist that the world is aching for
manonthemount 2 years ago
i love christopher hitchens
susanyana 2 years ago 95
Dobbs is awesome. Puts the lapel on Hitchens...what a classy dude and brave concidering how Christians hate Hitchens so much.
I have a total new found respect for Dobbs.
justgetsome 2 years ago
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paulwilfridhunt 2 years ago
I like Lou Dobbs, he has his beliefs, but he's reserved about them and keeps them to himself. Anytime you see Hitchens get angry with an interviewer its because they're doing everything in their power to nag him on. Dobbs treated him as an equal, and had a pleasant conversation, atta be Lou.
TuPaCaLyPsE1872 2 years ago 6
Well said, It was pleasant...Thats how it should work with everyone in the world and above it :)
Shatter7 2 years ago
i like how it said Christopher Hitchens: Contributing Editor Vanity Fair, Author. Were this on Fox, it would say Christopher Hitchens: Atheist.
I don't bring Bill O on my show and put Bill O: Believes in Creation.
TuPaCaLyPsE1872 2 years ago 4
Ever since I turned my comment setting to only see comments rated 0 or better, I haven't seen any absurd creationist/fundamentalist ranting. It's beautiful.
deathbotv1 2 years ago
I think it's pretty cool that Hitchens got US citizenship.
inthisholyreality 2 years ago 7
I am so proud that Hitchens is an American citizen now. We need more people like him to stand up to religious bullying and stupidity. He is an inspiration to those of us in the free-thinking minority.
Mortiis531 2 years ago 29
@Mortiis531 my advice to you my friend is stick with the devil you know ;)
kargwain187 4 months ago
When you get like 10 thumbs down everytime you comment I'd find something else to do. Read a book.
SWAC424 2 years ago
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Christopher Hitchens... just another nut case.
williamsire 2 years ago
Was that an unjustified ad hominen?
altosax1st 2 years ago
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It wasn't unjustified.
williamsire 2 years ago
Explain why then.
altosax1st 2 years ago
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Because he, like every other "scientists" or "expert educator/analyst," is arguing his opinion as if he gives it factual properties. If he does not believe in GOD that requires no explanation. However he rabbles on with an explanation and analysis about it as if he has discovered some irrefutable evidence to support his on foolish belief, or rather lack there of, as well as his idiotic evaluation of the belief in GOD.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS IS JUST ANOTHER NUT CASE.
Now be happy with that.
williamsire 2 years ago
Are you honestly trying to argue that Hitchens is nutcase because he thinks he's correct? You have more or less every great orator and debater to pick a bone with then.
Mike3303 2 years ago 2
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I'm not arguing that Hitchens is a nutcase because he thinks he is correct. Everyone who makes an argument thinks they are correct at the time of their argument. I say Hitchens is a nutcase because there is no foundation for his argument other than his own convictions and he is arguing as if there is concrete evidence that his convictions are irrefutably factual. Not based in any "facts" he has discovered but "facts" he has created to support his conviction.
williamsire 2 years ago
The religious should be able to prove that their God exists, but they cannot and just say that their religious books prove He does. That is not enough. If he did exist he is responsible for millions of deaths. They say He knows what is happening, what is going to happen (the fall of a sparrow) and knows the mind and thoughts of everyone and what they are going to do in the future. Thus He knows that Hitler was going to the Jews, Stalin was going to kill millions, yet he did nothing.
moorlandhunter 2 years ago
Incredible Interview. Finally one without shouting, defamatory remarks and humble.
The Fox News interviews are quite a different breed together. The only bring Hitchens on to incite and upset people.
Jerry Falwell death interview is a prime example.
Thanks for posting this!!!
000whatthehell000 2 years ago 3
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I can't believe they say this guy is smart. He is such a wreck, can't sit still because he knows where he's heading. I am disappointed with Mr Dobbs.
compgrad1 2 years ago
Lou Dobbs. Thank you for existing, and doing your job quite properly. I've just come off watching a string of interviews and debates with Mr. Hitchens, and this is the only one where I can bear the interviewer and hear everything Hitchens is saying.
Weirfan69 2 years ago 7
Mr. Hitchens congratulations on becoming a fellow American! Your voice is a welcome and a much needed addition to our national discussion. It would have been interesting if the issue of immigration was discussed as well with Mr. Dobbs.
Stimchaser 2 years ago 5
I always had good feelings about Lou Dobbs. And after viewing this, my opinion has not changed. He, as nelsong5 pointed out, seemed very humble. The best part is how he is able to slide right through the interview professionally, saying plenty, without seeping in his own personal view on the subject WHATSOEVER. I was very impressed by this, and this is something O'Reilly needs to take notes on. Even if Dobbs is a Theist (I would presume), he has my respect, because we have his respect, clearly.
iamericwhite 2 years ago 5
christopher hitchens makes me happy.
fubar28 2 years ago 31
Interesting point about genital mutilation and virgin birth. It's almost as if these religious people want to take away a woman's status as a giver of life, a violent response against natural selection and the mating process. I mean, hell, look at the middle east situation with polygamy removing so many men from the gene pool (and subsequently driving them to extremism).
MyNameIsBucket 2 years ago 3
Man you would never see an actual interview like this on Faux news. Jesus christ! I can't believe I feel like thanking Lou Dobbs for doing his fucking job.
FightinBlueHen 2 years ago 6
Yeah, you'd have Bill O'Reilly throwing spittle in his face screeching about being an enemy to morality and a disgrace to the memory of our fallen troops.
MyNameIsBucket 2 years ago 3
"God is not great " is a great read indeed. God...not so much.
Carlinism 3 years ago 7
If Hitchens was arguing on behalf of Latinos, he would not have been allowed to finish a sentence.
gooner13for4 3 years ago 4
what a stark contrast to FOX- Whenever Hitchens is on FOX, FOX talking heads talk over him and cut him off.
TitanicTarn1968 3 years ago 3
I have to say that I am very impressed. This was a great interview, the way interviews should be held. Questions were asked, and those questions were allowed to be answered. I recently heard of Mr. Hitchens and I must say I am very impressed with him.
MrKHafid 3 years ago 5
hitchens, is dead on
georgez71 3 years ago 6
Lou Dobbs is a hard ass host, yet he seems so humble when taking to Hitchens.
Both are brilliant men.
Congratulations to both.
nelsongg5 3 years ago 29
@nelsongg5 actually dobbs is quite the idiot
redryan20000 1 year ago
@nelsongg5 they r both humble to each other its creepy
budsmmoker 1 year ago
Odd too how no one has the courage to debate the Jewish notion that they are god's chosen people and the rest of us are Goy,, animals.
beneehall 3 years ago 5