Christopher Hitchens: vote Obama

If the video leaves you unconvinced of where hitchens stands: http://slate.msn.com/id/2202163

And a quick quote from the interview:
"May I call you dear?"
"No, you may not"
jrbedfordsays...

"I thought you'd never ask. You must have me on more often and tell me what you think." -Christopher Hitchens

Best quote from this video.

If I was getting interviewed by her and she did that crap to me, then after the interview ended changed her tone to sound chummy again, I'd walk straight the hell out of there. Why do these guests stand for this crap?

rougysays...

That woman drives me nuts.

I'm not terribly crazy about Hitch, either.

They both still think that playing war games with the lives of the Iraqi people is a good idea.

Wish I could dump the both of them in downtown Baghdad and give them a taste of the "freedom" they're so willing to spread.

Maddow is twice the interviewer and five times the human being that Ingraham could ever hope to be.

dooglesays...

Wow - she's relentless. "You just wasted 10 seconds."
Damn.

Hard for me to say it, but I'd love to have her as a boss if we were fighting the same fight. Otherwise I'd stay clear away.

SaNdMaNsays...

Fox News hosts think interviewing means lecturing. The point of an interview is to ask questions to better understand the interviewee's position. At FN, the point of an interview is to constantly interrupt the interviewee if they don't like what's being said and tell the interviewee what the "correct" views are.

bcglorfsays...


I'm not terribly crazy about Hitch, either.

They both still think that playing war games with the lives of the Iraqi people is a good idea.

Wish I could dump the both of them in downtown Baghdad and give them a taste of the "freedom" they're so willing to spread.


Actually, he's been to Iraq and specifically Baghdad(both before and after the war). In fact, it was visiting the Kurds after the first Gulf war that changed his mind to support the war from then on. It's the fact that he interviewed a terrorist in Baghdad from a government office while Saddam was still in power that leaves him insistent that Saddam supported terrorism. Hitchens has spent more time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran and North Korea too boot, than most journalists any major news organization puts up, and it's a shame so many dismiss him simply because they disagree with his conclusions.

Kevlarsays...

We should stop calling these farces interviews and instead call them what they really are - insults and arguments designed to do everything but let the person actually speak their mind without interruption.

9058says...

I actually i think this was a great interview (for Faux News), you take in intelligent guy who seemed to know what he was talking about and call him out on it in an attempt to destroy his credibility. I am not blind with hatred for Fox News (yet) to see that this interview was probably extremely effective to viewers because he came off stammering, back tracking, and weak, everything Fox News wanted. He didnt really answer any question fully or effectively (thanks to her constant interruptions) but he also didnt squash her tactics to make him look bad, like a fool he walked right into them which started when he agreed to go on Fox News of all things. So yes for them it was a great interview.

poolcleanersays...

I don't understand why changing your mind is a bad thing... Is the lesson that we should believe only that which we first believe? If so, gah gah goo gah, mommah daddah santy claus.

>> ^BillOreilly:
>> ^imstellar28:
hitchens gives atheists a bad name

Hitchens gives humanity a bad name.


Humanity gives rationality a bad name.

bcglorfsays...

>> ^Jordass:
I actually i think this was a great interview (for Faux News), you take in intelligent guy who seemed to know what he was talking about and call him out on it in an attempt to destroy his credibility. I am not blind with hatred for Fox News (yet) to see that this interview was probably extremely effective to viewers because he came off stammering, back tracking, and weak, everything Fox News wanted. He didnt really answer any question fully or effectively (thanks to her constant interruptions) but he also didnt squash her tactics to make him look bad, like a fool he walked right into them which started when he agreed to go on Fox News of all things. So yes for them it was a great interview.


From watching Hitchens, I'm not sure he really cares what typical Fox viewers think. He seems pretty content to ignore those too stupid to catch his lines like 'You must have me on more often and tell me what you think.' The refreshing thing for me with Hitchens is he doesn't seem to care the smallest bit what anyone else thinks about his position.

9058says...

The problem bcglorf is that a lot of people unfortunately watch and believe Fox News. So he might not care what they think but many do and he i feel helped them here. His subtlety get swallowed up by their usual tactic of talk loud and be obnoxious. He should of never gone on in the first place. When will everyone as a whole band together and boycott them.

BicycleRepairMansays...

>> ^Jordass:
So yes for them it was a great interview.

That's probably why it was complete shit to me. Fox behaved shamefully moronic, even for Fox.

I'm totally down with asking Hitchens tough questions, I wouldnt have minded if they were tougher still, but there really is no point having a monologue in front of him, or anyone else for that matter. If they don't want his opinion anyway, don't invite him.

blackjackshellacsays...

It's obvious that this bitch is being paid a shit load of money to be such a remarkably loud, obnoxious republican propagandist. Go fuck yourself bitch, we have every right to be angry after the past 20 disastrous years of rethuglican hatred. Not to mention the repuglican raison d'etre (that is french for "reason for being" to you knuckledraggers), that is, funnelling as much money as possible into the fewest, wealthiest Americans. You wanna know what is despicable, you wanna know what the founding fathers would be disgusted by? It is modern neoconservatism, and republicanism of the last 150 years. This is Americas aristocracy people, and they don't want anything to do with you lowlifes.

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