Hitchens/Arato Debate War Iraq at the CalArts REDCAT (9/16)

Martín Plot and Stacy McGoldrick moderate an important debate at the CalArts REDCAT between two leading intellectuals, Andrew Arato and Christopher Hitchens

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• debate
• iraq
• Arato
• Hitchens
• Saddam
• 911
• Afghanistan
• Arendt
• America
• popular
• war
• conservative
• liberal
• osama
• bush

[frostbyte101]

Did the sound go out for anyone else around a minute in?

Could the poster reload the video?

[fingers1122]

For some reason, that's what happened in the original recording. . .

[TomPiltoff]

Worst moderator ever.

[1LTPETE]

These two former students are horrible... let the two senior gentlemen hash out their arguments, please. Why stop them when they're penetrating deeper and deeper into a particular line of inquiry? Why switch to a completely new question for God sake??? Let the dialectic flow where it goes goddamnit.

[holdenc96]

Am I the only person having a very difficult time following Arato's line of thinking?

[napingerel]

@tengri i think you should give her a break, it isn't that easy to moderate a debate like this. She wasn't that bad

[napingerel]

@tengri  i think you should give her a break, it isn't that easy to moderate a debate like this. She wasn't that bad

[az091186]

Who is that bloody annoying woman?

[clickswitchh]

Hitchens is way off on some neo conservative kvasi intellectual planet

[Setzer]

@Goodz123 Glad someone else thought so...she interrupted a very good argument to ask a pretty dumb question. We didn't come here to listen to her questions and neither did Hitchens or Arato come to answer them. The point of it was the kind of arguments which she foolishly interrupted.

[Territomauvais]

"Deal with it"

If I am ever a tenth that badass, I'll be satisfied

[SuperColin74]

i feel sorry for her..shes doing her best trying to get some structure to the debate..she has questions from the floor i guess..she lets them go on for a long time..

ty for posting.

[BlindPacemaker]

This is one of the poorest examples of how to moderate a debate I have ever seen. This woman seems to think she is part of the debate, & wants her 5 minutes of fame. She interrupts as soon as a good conversation gets going, & when Arato questions her on this she just says "I know" and laughs.

People like this remind us why we need professionals.

Honestly, I was really enjoying the back and forth between these two before this idiot interrupted with her questions she is "really quite proud of".

[lashkaretoiba]

Did he just say deal with it? LMAO!