Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death

Christopher Hitchens along with Ralph Reed participate in a debate on the legacy of the Reverend Jerry Falwell. This was recorded from the Hannity and Colmes show of 16-May-2007. UPDATE: December 16, 2011 - The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. For years, Hitchens had toured the country debating religious figures about his utter disbelief in the existence of a God. He didn't waver in the face of his inability to treat his disease. To the very end, whatever the argument joined, Hitchens' voice was an original. He is survived by his wife, the writer Carol Blue, and three children. Alexander, Sophia and Antonia. (from: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/16/143595854/writer-christopher-hitchens-dies)

Link to all of Christopher Hitchens work as a writer/columnist at Slate: http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=28709

More information about Christopher Hitchens (from Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens):

Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England) is an Anglo-American author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to other publications and has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal. His brother is British journalist Peter Hitchens.

Hitchens is known for his iconoclasm, anti-clericalism, atheism, antitheism, anti-fascism and anti-monarchism. He is also noted for his acerbic wit and his noisy departure from the Anglo-American political left. He was formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of Britain and America. But a series of disagreements beginning in the early 1990s led to his resignation from The Nation shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks. He is also known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson, and his iconoclastic criticism of Mother Teresa.

While Hitchens' idiosyncratic ideas and positions preclude easy classification, he is a vociferous critic of what he describes as "fascism with an Islamic face," and his critics have been known to describe him as a "neoconservative". Hitchens, however, refuses to embrace this designation. In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Bosnia and Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neo-conservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues. He has also been known to refer to his association with "temporary neocon allies".

Hitchens no longer considers himself a Trotskyist or a socialist; yet he maintains that his political views have not changed significantly. He points out that, throughout his career, he has been both an atheist and an antitheist, and that he has always remained a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism and reason. Hitchens has launched a detailed attack on Religion in his book god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He has also stated that, while he "was very much in rebellion against the state" during his youth, he is now "much more inclined to stress... issues of individual liberty."

Hitchens became a United States citizen on his fifty-eighth birthday, April 13, 2007.

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[JimmyPageIsALegend]

"If you gave Falwell an Enema, he'd be buried in a matchbox."

:')

[Johnf85]

"If you gave Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." lolol

[valters159]

fox news are soo silly

[TheSonorama21]

We need the next Hitch to step up.

[JRDawggg]

Hitch stood up to those religious thugs and made them look like the bigots they are. R.I.P. Hitch.

[420simpson]

miss you hitch

[nerdwonder]

wow the  host has the mind of a child.

[philosophergenius]

"I'm sure you are perfect in your life" That 'day laborer' --the derivative of 'journalist'--lowest form of writer, is missing a basic concept in his inferior brain. No matter what good or evil Hitchens is, it does not make the crimes of that religious loser any less.

[philosophergenius]

that he is speaking as an American

[philosophergenius]

He said as an American our thoughts and prayers need to be with the dead. What if, as an American, I don't pray, and I believe 'the dead' is nothing more than corpse worshiping. The corpse is the remaining vessle in which the concious of the person occupying it was using. The memory of the person can be perserved, but the corpse is useless. I am an American and this is my belief. I can exercise that belief because this is a free country--I don't have to listen to religious dogma claiming

[Noxshus]

We're going to miss Hitch a lot more :(

[guckenberger]

Should we have respected hitlers life when he died?