Christopher Hitchens vs. Pat Buchanan Part 4: Rush Limbaugh (1993)

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[superfrognyc]

Thanks but why is the sound volume so low?

[KEEYNOTEMUSIC]

lol @ Hitchens saying "fear of christ"

[UtopiaMinor666]

Hitchens was very correct when he said, "the alternative is what you ought to be considering, becuase if you were to stay on the two party pendulum, the alternative will only be the extreme right." How right he was in 93'. The extreme right is on the rise here.

[owenline]

@dizzythegreat your right. I was drinking...

[dizzythegreat]

@owenline There's no need to curse.

The Pew Research Center conducted a survey of election coverage and found that Obama has received more negative news coverage than all of the Republican candidates combined, and individual conservative candidates received more positive coverage than Obama throughout the course of his entire presidency thus far.

The so-called "liberal media" is an unfortunate and misguided non-reality.

[owenline]

@superfrognyc because your hearing is so bad.

[owenline]

@dizzythegreat Really--your really trying to expect us to believe that the news media is conservative?! Moron fuck up.

[dizzythegreat]

@inademv When Buchanan said America is conservative, I think he got "The Core of America" confused with "The news media and most of the government".

[meshzzizk]

That's a great transition around 5:30.

"Little Rock Arkansas."

lol

[RipTheJackR]

i just love the people calling in part :)

[MasterofOblivion1]

So Hitchens is suggesting that both Republicans and Democrats are moving right? Interesting.