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

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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.

More information about Christopher Hitchens (from Wikipedia):

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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Video Comments:
DaHonestAbe (December 2, 2008 at 6:23 am)
What part did he say that?
tri2ctchmi (December 1, 2008 at 8:16 pm)
Very true
PG1990SAH (December 1, 2008 at 7:34 pm)
agreed
choclytgremlins (December 1, 2008 at 7:25 pm)
Hitchens is overzealous sometimes, but it's refreshing to see someone who says what he thinks and doesn't let others bully him.
Stinder (November 30, 2008 at 11:29 pm)
Hitchens is a bad ass
Intel5 (November 30, 2008 at 11:07 pm)
No, because souls don't exist. Duh.
narcotect (November 30, 2008 at 8:54 am)
hitch does a great job stranding up for himself against american media bullies, and always sticks to the issues despite their relentless demonising of him. And who cares about his families feelings? They dont care about the feelings of everyone who's lives they ruin...
narcotect (November 30, 2008 at 8:52 am)
oh my god... what a fucking stupid thing to say.. this is an example of the idiocy we have to deal with... how can you debate with door knob? its impossible...
matt23leo (November 29, 2008 at 11:17 pm)
Falwell was an evil bigot and I don't care that he is dead either. That doesn't make you evil, that makes you honest. So hitchens refuses to kiss falwell's ass after he was dead. That is admirable. I really think falwell's death is a good thing for America. If it hurt falwell's family, tough shit. How many people did falwell hurt with his bigotry and his thoughtless words when he was alive? Screw that dead bigot. Im glad he is gone.
politiciansarebent (November 29, 2008 at 4:35 pm)
Well done Mr. Hitchens........wonderful. This awful man Falwell deserves nothing but ridicule.