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:
mathmexican4234 (December 5, 2008 at 1:22 am)
The last comment by Hitchens was funny lol
angryafro (December 5, 2008 at 12:19 am)
This person is a great example of religious cyclical "thinking." How can you have a rational conversation with someone who makes a claim and then puts the burden on you to disprove their nonsense? I really do not hate to break this to you, but no one has "ultimate answers." Yet. Science is constantly striving in that direction. Religion thought it found it years ago, before humans knew ANYTHING about the world, and continues to congratulate itself to this day. But not for much longer.
:-)
angryafro (December 5, 2008 at 12:16 am)
And you don't know one of the most basic English functions: the contraction. If you are older than six, this is totally unacceptable.
MACKATTACK1970 (December 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm)
Hannity is a fukkking moron, Hitchens has more intelligence in his small toe on his left foot than Hannity has in his whole head.

Falwell was a piece of shit and if there is a hell he is rotting there right now.
Bastardozer (December 4, 2008 at 11:18 pm)
wrong. i can name at least two instances where he does in fact shed a tear, but with rev. falwell, a whole lot of us do just the opposite. and for good reason.
Bastardozer (December 4, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
yeah that'll show him..
Easydollars (December 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm)
Hitchens is a the whore of babble on. The Great disinformation Artist spreading his turds
all over the world. Not worth even particle of a second to listen too. I'm gonna stick his picture at the bottom of my toilet and piss on him every day. :)
aquabat104 (December 4, 2008 at 9:21 pm)
well......then according to your statement.....hannity is make a correct statement not a stupid one

so...then you are the idiot correct?
thejackal7137 (December 4, 2008 at 7:24 pm)
Sean Hannity has a fantastic talent for exposing his innate stupidity. Saying that Christopher Hitchens thinks he is the smartest man in the room, when that room contains Hannity, Colmes, Ralph Reid and Hitch, is purely hysterical. Hitch is WILDLY the smartest man in the room!
Renagade70 (December 4, 2008 at 7:13 pm)
Thank you leorcc. You reap of what you sow. Fa;well did just that. He conned Jim Bakker out of the PTL and used his sins agianst him. Very christian of him. Hitchens is spot on Falwell.Why should we cry crocidile tears for someone who used God to profit? I would be a liar if I did. You reap what you sow.