Christopher Hitchens on Al Gore, Bill Clinton and the Republicans (1994 Part 2)

November 21, 1994 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww....

Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/christopher-hitchens-and-mona-cha...

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

Gore is currently an author, businessperson, and environmental activist. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977--85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985--93), before becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election.

Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (2007), an Academy Award (2007) for his work on the 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.

He is a founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Greek military junta of 1967--1974, alternatively "The Regime of the Colonels" (Greek: Το καθεστώς των Συνταγματαρχών, To kathestos ton Syntagmatarhon), or in Greece "The Junta", and "The Seven Years" (Greek: Η Επταετία, I eptaetía) are terms used to refer to a series of right-wing military governments that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Rule by the military started in the morning of 21 April 1967 with a coup d'état led by a group of colonels of the Greek military, and ended in July 1974.

In 1947, the United States formulated the Truman Doctrine, and began to actively support a series of authoritarian governments in Greece, Turkey and Iran, in order to ensure that these states did not fall under Soviet influence. With American and British aid, the civil war ended with the military defeat of the Left in 1949. The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was outlawed and many Communists had to either flee the country or face persecution. The CIA and the Greek military began to work closely, especially after Greece joined NATO in 1952. Greece was a vital link in the NATO defense arc which extended from the eastern border of Iran to the north most point in Norway. Greece in particular was seen as being in risk, having experienced a Communist insurgency. In particular, the newly-founded Hellenic National Intelligence Service (KYP) and the LOK Special Forces (later actively involved in the 1967 coup) maintained a very close liaison with their American counterparts. In addition to preparing for a Soviet invasion, they agreed to guard against a left wing coup. The LOK in particular were integrated into the Gladio European stay-behind network. Although there have been persistent rumors about an active support of the perpetrators of the coup d'état by the US government there is no evidence to support such claims. It is however likely that the US military was informed of the coup a few days in advance by Greek liaison officers.

Robert Heron Bork http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... (born March 1, 1927) is an American legal scholar who has advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism.

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[wintershadows]

This woman is a conservative, christian, and pro-isreal. No one should take her position on anything seriously.

[trollfinger]

It's pretty clear that Americans find it hard to accept that their country is an imperial power, that carries out illegal acts of war. I'm sure most "terrorist groups" don't say "yeah, we're terrorists." They believe they're right, like the US.

[huwrj]

She can't dispute Hitchens' argument but rather dismisses him, changes the topic, goes to ad-hominem and straw-man arguments calling Gore an anti-American nutjob, etc. But Hitchens actually knows what he's talking about. You see, Hitchens has actually read stuff, been places and he actually "knows stuff" unlike most people on TV. Gore was right. The anti-communist paranoia continues to this day with people thinking that Obama is secretly a Stalinist dictator with "Tsars", etc. Which is absurd.

[xxcrysad3000xx]

What nonsense, they continue to "vilify and defame" Clarence Thomas because he's a standing Justice of the Supreme Court, and Bork never got the confirmation. Try to understand that minute detail madame, I know the difference is rather nuanced.

[MomSaysImCool]

The LEFT are sore losers? What about all that ACORN nonsense?

[ECabot22]

@wintershadows If you disagree with someone's political philosophy, religion and position on Israel you shouldn't take that person's other positions seriously? Words of an idiot.

[wintershadows]

@TheMarksmenCat This comment is a year old, let it go you jew haha.

[TheMarksmenCat]

@wintershadows I would rather take seriously a woman who is conservative, christian and pro-''isreal'' than a dumbass that can't spell ''Israel'' correctly.

[RightWingHunter666]

"This is ridiculous." I love how Hitchens dispatches this conservative hack.