Citizentube Interview: Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair

Google and the National Journal sponsored an event on 6/11/2008 called, "The 21st Century Campaign". Experts gathered to discuss the innovative ways that campaigns, citizens, and the media are using the web in the 2008 election.

One of those experts was Christopher Hitchens who writes regularly for Vanity Fair and numerous other publications. Citizentube's Olivia Ma caught up with him for this short interview.

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[AnnexNuts]

This man is a hero.

[bcmalloy]

Hitchens Is one of the wisest men of our time.

If we could somehow replicate his use of information in a machine for us mere mortals and plug it in, dispensing advice with droll english humor I'm sure it would often recommend having a drink and sleeping on it.

[alifaqmal]

thanks. he got the points.

[writersblock26]

Does anybody know where this interview took place- Washington, DC, I assume?

[LovingKimiKatkar]

ICONS OF TELEPLAY—Fear not my tattooed countryman regarding lackey Christ' Hitchens' demise as the U.S. is teeming with native- and foreign-born fascists. There are plenty at-the-ready to fill the void when he croaks.

[Jakelakeable]

@bcmalloy Here here!

[sarah13876]

he goes on and on about the positives aspects of being seen in the media and then the reporter asks: what are the positives about being seen in the media?

fucking listen to what he is saying dimwit.

i love how he cleverly mentions the negatives instead of repeating himself.

[UtopiaMinor666]

The humblest I think I've ever seen him.

[Venue0309]

@bcmalloy I don't know about that...I think he is one of the most honest men of our time--based on him being mainstream

[TheProgressistViewer]

Yeah the only land were you can actually go to jail for smoking pot. Land of the free.

[jerryhello100]

Idhable666: By saying that anyone who is an atheist is intelligent suggests to me that you are guilty of at least one intellectual fallacy. Someone may be brought up not to believe in God, it would just be their natural belief, no intellectual achievement. If you are brought up religious, and see the contradiction then that may be a sign of intelligence. But I know many stupid atheists, who had they been born christian, would have been stupid christians. Not everyone questions their beliefs.

[keelorenz]

Make sure to invest more thought in it than a subscription to the phrase "The Land of the Free" suggests that you might have. I don't mean to be funny or rude, so please forgive me if I am coming off this way, but as a lifelong American whose lived in the Midwest, the South, the North and Northeast, and the West, really, think long and hard about it. For being free, we are occasionally a bunch of unlettered, intolerant, uneducated horde of vulgar conformists who don't think for themselves.