Frost Over The World - Christopher Hitchens - 22 Jun 07

Sir David Frost talks to bestselling author Christopher Hitchens about his new book 'God is not Great' and to Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon desk officer who has become one of the staunchest critics of the Iraq war.

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• kwiatkowski
• pentagon
• iraq
• war
• bush

[rypaz87]

@i3u7n5 If a user describes someone as "poorly educated" and this is sufficient for you to believe that person, and the corollary that this user is much more intelligent, then let me pose this analogy. I think Jesus was a mentally ill trickster. Does this automatically infer that I am a great sorcerer with a keen grip on reality? Should others after me not waste their time repudiating me? It doesn't work that way.

[rypaz87]

@i3u7n5 I wouldn't take an unknown person's word for it, not for a second, and especially not if the word "liar" trails along next to "poorly educated" which Hitchens (from Oxford) most definitely wasn't. In fact saying that aloud would raise many eyebrows among Hitchens own foes who are happy to disagree as they often do, but never dare call his information or manner of speaking into question. And when they do, they are almost always humiliated on the spot.

[i3u7n5]

@rypaz87 I'm not quite sure why you would even waste time trying repudiating someone who described Hitch as "poorly educated" but by all means, proceed. :)

[rypaz87]

I'm in a way guilty of my own accusation, I went back to the book to read the chapter again and the word "opinion" was wrong of me to use as it has a tone of suggestion that would, too, be slightly misrepresentational. That argument was the strongest, he claimed, which "might be inverse proof that someone of later significance was indeed born".

[rypaz87]

@richardaberdeen and another thing.. "obviously certain poorly educated liars like Hitchens disputes his existence" - what can be said of people who make false representations of educated people? Hitchens was read up on the people he repudiated, the same couldn't be said of you. Christ, this is a video promoting his book, get your hands a little dirty and arm your arguments the real way.

[rypaz87]

@richardaberdeen you and unitedkingdomify are both wrong about what Hitchens said about the existence of Jesus. I don't know why you spout such misrepresentations, but if you read his book you'll see Hitch's opinion on Jesus' existence is that the myth's backbending maneuvers to place the Nazarene in Bethlehem for the sake of the prophecy seems to suggest that such a prophet had existed.

[pasqualebrow1230]

That is an "observant" video. =p

[dwinkinney37e]

Your video is a favorite on Pakistan

[TheSorrow696]

sorry for typos , typing to fast and not spell checking equals fail lol!!!

[TheSorrow696]

thaTs the thing who are to say anything ,we havent even been living on this ploanet long enough to know anything about God or Jesus, or Satan ,unless there an immortal on this comment page that can prove me ,....... i thought not, ppl are what ever they want , . hence Free Will... its a test will you pass?? oh and riddle me this ,if good and evil is real,which it is!! then why not God and Satan?