I hope Mos Def won't be visiting the show again. He mostly detracts from the conversation and seems so self important as to use most of the speaking time.

>> ^cybrbeast:
I hope Mos Def won't be visiting the show again. He mostly detracts from the conversation and seems so self important as to use most of the speaking time.


Agreed, when you're at the table with Rushdie and Hitchens, just sit back and listen unless you've got at least half their intellect and experience. From what was shown here, Mos Def has neither. That's not an insult either, there aren't many people on the planet who meet that bar.

He didn't do too bad.

I think the consensus of most of the discussion was balanced against him, and had he someone more sympathetic to his point of view, say Garafalo or Whoopie Goldberg, he would have done better.

Yes, Rushdie is a formidable brain. Maher tried to provide balance. Hitch was pretty much a prick and clearly drunk off his ass, and there were several points he made that were either dubiously absent of relative information, or clearly biased and condescending.

Orders were given to our US troops to let Osama bin Laden escape. Hitch knows that.

I wanted to hear Rushdie talk, but all those asshats kept talking over him. Fuckers.