Paxman meets Hitchens full 30 minute interview with BBCs Jeremy Paxman RIP

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Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.

"Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic," Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades.

"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.
Vanity Fair

Christopher Hitchens - author, journalist and champion of the "new atheism" movement - has given an interview to Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman.
Here he talks about his treatment for oesophageal cancer which has now spread to his lymph nodes and lungs.
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[mikelheron20]

Yes I do. I am not a fan of Peter Hitchens. I disagree with him on almost everything and find some of his opinions highly unpleasant. But I would never call him stupid. It is a huge mistake to underrate the intellect of people just because we disagree with them.

[TheStephenMac]

am i really the only person to notice that within the first 12 seconds it announced that its paxman interviews PETER hitchens.

RIP Christopher.truly an inspirational character.

[David Jenkinson]

a nicer side of paxman here !

[AutomaticMilk]

Cheer up! Peace X

[messianicrogue]

"....sinful flesh and your brain is ash on the floor of hell, you will be sorry. I will not feel any pity, for I will sitting with the lord in all his glory...."

Amazing you think you have a reserved seat. How awful a place it would be with smug, arrogant, insufferable, ugly, deranged foolish people all having been selected for the very traits that make you avoided in life by more discerning people.

Good luck with your religious views, its clear you are struggling with them and lashing out.

[rossini55]

Well what a hateful gloating message. Rejoicing with glee in someone else's pain and suffering. What a cuntish thing to say. SHAME on you dude, shame on you. This is what religion does to people.

Do you also laugh at alcoholics with liver disease?

What if you find out that allah is in charge? Then your brain will be 'ash on the floor of hell' just like mine, and all the muslims will be laughing and pointing at you from heaven. What do you think of that? Horrible isn't it.

[Varas Moontor]

That was a spectacular comment. I'm going to remember it.

[Terry O'Grady]

We now know that Hitchens knows the answer.



[TheJimmax]

Wow , Paxman looks all doe eyed, thats a first for me!

[narred]

ah, but you are very wrong.. we didn't lose Hitchens, HE lost us. yes, we lost his brilliant mind, the body - the shell - but we get to KEEP Hitchens, the genius of critique, forever in our memories & our history books,

for our childrens' childrens' children.

he IS a man that will never be forgotten easily.

Cya, Chris, lah. Your words and views, however i may have disagreed with some of them, will always be there for the future generations to debate.

somehow? i think he'd appreciate that...

[Aesop059]

Your average muslim wouldn't understand a word of this

[Aesop059]

No you're not