Christopher Hitchens on His Critics

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens discusses his critics, RUclips, and the relationship between drinking and writing with Asylum's Anthony Layser.

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  • @LifeOfRy
    @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +300

    Almost surreal to see Hitch make a direct reference to his content being on RUclips. He is sorely missed. RUclips is certainly how I came across him and I’ve been improved greatly ever since.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +1

      David Tucker you don’t see how a person can improve someone... if they aren’t a Christian?
      Is that what you’re really saying here?

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +2

      David Tucker oh right. So you’re either a troll, a nutbag bible basher or something in between.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +4

      David Tucker ah yes, the only thing in the entire universe that can improve a human being...
      is a supernatural Bronze Age myth.
      Not art, or poetry.
      Landscape or beauty.
      Philosophy or sex.
      Heartache or forgiveness.
      Some made up magical deity from a book written thousands of years ago by desert dwelling goat herders and peasants. About talking snakes, dead men that don’t really die, virgins who can conceive, bushes that burn forever. Oh and don’t forget Noah’s Ark. Or are you one of those “modern” Christians who accepts that the _really_ stupid shit is of course not true, but I better be careful cos I’m STILL going to hell if I don’t hand myself over to this celestial authority.
      Or the BIGGEST insult: that withOUT this divine authority, I would have NO way of being able to discern morality for myself.
      You are a FOOL if you believe ANY religion or ANY thing that claims to contain “divine” bloody revelation. Religion is MAN made and it’s about time we moved on from all this archaic superstitious tribalism.
      Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +3

      David Tucker you’re talking utter random drivel. Like a crackpot preacher. Please go do something else. Anything else.

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 4 года назад +2

      David Tucker I couldn’t care less who or what you are.

  • @sherazahmad5232
    @sherazahmad5232 3 года назад +61

    RUclips: Footage of Hitchens you've never seen before.
    Me: Yes please.

  • @mattrasbury7539
    @mattrasbury7539 3 года назад +40

    A very beautiful and humanizing man. I'm grateful that I was able to discover his writing and to some extent who he was.

    • @tos100returns
      @tos100returns 2 года назад

      @S M Nobody is perfect. Your bro George W. Bush actually STARTED that war, and people like you supported it FULL-ON.
      PS: Trump lost. Get over it. Womp womp. Thoughts and prayers, girlfriend.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      He was a loser.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      @AMT you are one stoooo-pid person. You can't get around what I wrote and your empty self decided to reply anyway that did nothing but fill in space with baseless words.

  • @petyrkowalski9887
    @petyrkowalski9887 7 лет назад +97

    Such a sad loss to us all and so glad he lives on in you tube

    • @paranuts7693
      @paranuts7693 4 года назад +6

      Petyr Kowalski wish we had 7.5 billion more of hitch. What a great fucking world we would be living in.

    • @petyrkowalski9887
      @petyrkowalski9887 4 года назад

      Wall Street Hamster at least he wasnt a judgemental, self righteous, pompous homophobe like you.

    • @petyrkowalski9887
      @petyrkowalski9887 4 года назад

      Vinnie P. Perfectly well put. Bravo

    • @dylancoleman1921
      @dylancoleman1921 3 года назад

      In a way I feel as though he’s not gone. Not afterlife though.

    • @durango8882
      @durango8882 3 года назад +1

      My hero. 💪🏻

  • @BillieJolene1
    @BillieJolene1 4 года назад +79

    This was excellent!!! I wish I could have met him. He's inspiring. When I feel down I reach for something he wrote or watch a video he's in. He's just AWESOME.

    • @cheogrady
      @cheogrady 4 года назад +11

      When I come into some money. I plan to create scholarships in the names of three people. My Dad - He was a Black revolutionary. My
      Mom - She was a feminist and organic farmer..and Christopher Hitchens. All three contributed to my intellectual development. I think any fan of Hitch, that has money should create a lasting scholarship in his name to the school of their choice because in essence what Hitch promoted was critical thinking. Think for yourselves dammit!!! 😀👍🏾🙏🏿

    • @huepix
      @huepix 2 года назад +2

      On religion, he WAS awesome.
      On illegal wars based on lies, he became a delusuonal war hawk.
      On women, he has some less than awesome opinions.

    • @MsRichycon
      @MsRichycon 2 года назад

      @@huepix didn't he say the holocaust was a bit of a lie

    • @rep3e4
      @rep3e4 2 года назад +1

      He is very sorry now, but too late

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад +1

      Awesomely stupid.

  • @tanseygreen291
    @tanseygreen291 4 года назад +28

    What a great man I still miss him

    • @rep3e4
      @rep3e4 2 года назад +1

      Rubbish

    • @deanvo503
      @deanvo503 2 года назад +6

      @R e P little yisus fanboy is butthurt

  • @jamesgray1210
    @jamesgray1210 4 года назад +17

    The way he looks at him and says "No" at 02:00

  • @cosmicabyss7358
    @cosmicabyss7358 Год назад +3

    A great loss for us.
    Rest in peace, hitchens we need you now more than ever.
    I can't imagine what a field day Hitchins would have had in this day and age.
    I'm forever hurt in the grand scheme of things that I never got to hear his thoughts on so many subjects of the future.

  • @freeworld88888
    @freeworld88888 7 лет назад +134

    The water turned to wine is most useful miracle..ha h ha h ah ha classic.

    • @nadinejoyce1203
      @nadinejoyce1203 2 года назад +3

      An Oscar Wilde wit....yes?

    • @roqsteady5290
      @roqsteady5290 2 года назад

      Downing street wouldnt have had to to send someone out with a suitcase if they had mastered this trick.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      Miracles were a joke to Hitch. He just ignored them no matter what the evidence.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 2 года назад

      @@2fast2block the only miracle I can see is that you’re still alive. You must be what, 80? 85? You look about 120 in your videos.

    • @roqsteady5290
      @roqsteady5290 2 года назад +1

      @@2fast2block This is just self serving nonsense. What we know is that the universe bubble we are a part of goes back to a small unit of time (the planck time), before it would converge into a singularity according to the classical theory of general relativity. But that doesn't take quantum effects into account, so before that the simple answer is we don't know what happened. It is perfectly possible, as some cosmological models propose, that there is a greater cosmos outside our universe that may be infinite and eternal, whatever that might mean outside of the laws of physics in this universe. In any case gods don't solve anything when you just hand wave away the need for any explanation of them. It is just an extra and vastly extravagant assumption that we can discard with Occam's razor. Worse, there is absolutely no connection between some fundamental substance outside of our universe and the prosaic god invented by ancient tribes who didn't know any better thousands of years ago. Even if we accepted the notion that some kind of deistic god existed you would still have all your work in front of you, as Hitchens said. And he is right. As to taking miracles seriously, there just isn't close to close enough evidence to accept any of them and the Christians one are really no different to the miracle claims of other religions in their absurdity and lack of evidence: No Mohamed didn't split the moon in two or fly around heaven on a winged donkey and no Jesus didn't rise from the dead or turn water into wine and there were not talking animals either. The fact that people who claim to be intelligent believe these preposterous unevidence claims is thoroughly depressing and not a good sign for our ability to cooperate in addressing the world's problems. Really, wake up already.

  • @buttscooter420
    @buttscooter420 2 года назад +48

    "who made you do it"
    "the people that closed the ribbon store"
    That brief look in Hitch's face

    • @vineeth547
      @vineeth547 2 года назад +3

      He realized it was not as funny as he thought would be

    • @bobobandy9382
      @bobobandy9382 2 года назад +14

      @@vineeth547 No, he realized the person he was sat across from was a complete dope who couldn't follow.

    • @piggypiggypig1746
      @piggypiggypig1746 2 года назад +1

      ​@@bobobandy9382 I had the exact some thought. That guy was too quick to open his mouth and too slow to think.

  • @Michael-et2uj
    @Michael-et2uj Год назад +2

    There was about a three period in the mid to late 2000s when I must've watched every Christopher Hitchens interview and TV appearance that was uploaded on RUclips.

  • @123hero321
    @123hero321 4 года назад +50

    What I would give to have a drink with Christopher!

    • @DaveB324
      @DaveB324 2 года назад +3

      I totally agree.. he had things all in the right perspective.
      Great man.

  • @JamesLDurham
    @JamesLDurham Год назад +15

    “I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing” - Christopher Hitchens

    • @hejla4524
      @hejla4524 3 месяца назад

      He's quoting Sir Thomas Beecham.

  • @michaeljohns8817
    @michaeljohns8817 2 года назад +2

    I'M very very sad he's gone , he was always so much fun to listen to , god bless RIP

  • @paulotero5502
    @paulotero5502 4 года назад +38

    "I've hardly got my trousers off."
    😂😂

  • @AlcibiadesMD
    @AlcibiadesMD 3 года назад +21

    The world 🌍 is a poorer place without Hitchens, god dammed! I miss this man, he was as close as you can get to being the best polymath.

    • @jeffmilroy9345
      @jeffmilroy9345 2 года назад +1

      I say he ain't no da Vinci. He should have gone cryonic - he could have proved me wrong! Still time for Dawkins!

    • @AlcibiadesMD
      @AlcibiadesMD 2 года назад +1

      @@jeffmilroy9345 Well, I presume Hitch would have said he and Leonardo were from different eras and different interests, I know what you’re saying but though I like Da-Vinci, I’m merely expressing my admiration and feelings for wordsmith that was Christopher, his well researched ideas and opinions as well as his verbatim puts him, in my opinion ahead of the contemporary pack.

  • @crownmax8767
    @crownmax8767 3 года назад +5

    Hi , miss him alot. Great speaker and a true en lighted man.

  • @Bigbencher
    @Bigbencher 2 года назад +5

    'The Ribbon Store' debacle- 'They made me do it!' - just so funny...😂 Christopher had such a range of talents but a great sense of purpose and humour lay behind it all

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe 6 лет назад +67

    2:00
    "You don't text people"
    "[God] no"

  • @EM-cg4iy
    @EM-cg4iy 2 года назад +3

    We need him now. :-(

  • @mu9284
    @mu9284 3 года назад +11

    1:22 Hitchens : There appears to be huge archive of me on the internet ".
    Well sir you would surely have been pleasantly surprised by the vast vast videos of you on youtube today...

  • @Snowboarder54688
    @Snowboarder54688 2 года назад +5

    what a waste to include that background music!

  • @thesubhumancomedy
    @thesubhumancomedy 2 года назад +24

    People, including myself, spend too much time on youtube watching news we like and people we like.
    If you want to learn English, listen to Hitchens
    There are others that handle the English language better, but not in debate. And debates are so entertaining.

  • @violinsinthevoid4579
    @violinsinthevoid4579 4 года назад +6

    I encourage everybody go and read "Unacknowledged Legislations: Writers in the Public Sphere." A fine book by Hitchens, though I haven't read a book of his that wasn't fascinating at least to a certain extent.

  • @Drewtazy
    @Drewtazy 6 лет назад +10

    A very missed man. Would love to hear his take about all the bravo Sierra in this world today.

    • @jasoncaulkin9830
      @jasoncaulkin9830 4 года назад

      Sadly he would have been “protested” by fuckwits who didn’t know why they were protesting & universities would have caved in to the mob and banned him.

    • @sidDkid87
      @sidDkid87 2 года назад +1

      *"Bravo Sierra"* ... clever

  • @brihen8801
    @brihen8801 4 года назад +18

    Oh how I miss Mr. Hitchens. :(

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      Then miss your loser.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

    • @hammer-r
      @hammer-r 2 года назад

      @@2fast2block , blah blah blah crap. Just spewing page after page of crap does not make it true. Hitch will live on in RUclips for other enlightened people, not you, to discover as religion recedes and science and facts take over.

  • @ericswain4177
    @ericswain4177 2 года назад +3

    Christopher Hitchen RUclips immortalized.

  • @danielthomas8507
    @danielthomas8507 2 года назад +3

    I wish someone would make a movie about his life...

    • @HappyBloke81
      @HappyBloke81 2 года назад

      I love the part where he fueled the fire that killed millions of innocent people!

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад

      I have a good title.How to grift off dopes.

    • @danielthomas8507
      @danielthomas8507 2 года назад +1

      @@HappyBloke81 wow...get help

    • @HappyBloke81
      @HappyBloke81 2 года назад

      @@danielthomas8507 if you didn't realise sarcasm then you need help. Your idol now is answering for those innocent people's death for which he so so wanted and pushed for.

    • @danielthomas8507
      @danielthomas8507 2 года назад +2

      @@HappyBloke81 what are talking about??? and if that was sarcasm you didn't articulate very well at all....

  • @nadinejoyce1203
    @nadinejoyce1203 3 года назад +13

    The most useful of the miracles...(water into wine)😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @rishabhaniket1952
    @rishabhaniket1952 7 месяцев назад

    Hitchens had the inkling that he would become a posthumous RUclips sensation. Such cruel irony. Me and surely thousands of others have discovered him through it.

  • @glennmartin9043
    @glennmartin9043 2 года назад +2

    Last line: I hardly got my trousers off.

  • @kevinbell3700
    @kevinbell3700 3 года назад +3

    Legend.

  • @jerrygmarchantmarchant141
    @jerrygmarchantmarchant141 2 года назад

    I guess I've seen this one three or four times Can't Get Enough, Thomas Sowell Christopher Hitchens

  • @puirYorick
    @puirYorick 2 года назад +1

    We owned a rather rusty Remington machine we kept moving house with that I kept promising to try and spool a fresh ribbon from some newer model onto if I could. I never got round to it, moved away from the parental home and it eventually went into the skip for the house clearance firm after the next move. Surrendering your old devices and switching over is indeed painful for some of us. Curse the ribbon store!
    I swear we had to do the folk dancing as part of PE.

  • @thealmightyjohnsolid9052
    @thealmightyjohnsolid9052 2 года назад

    Would have loved to see his reaction to the #blessed 🙌 crowd (shivers.)

  • @jb4326
    @jb4326 2 года назад +2

    I’ve always found it amazing that alcohol has anything to do with Jesus given the violence which can come with it

  • @DeOmnibusDubitandum76
    @DeOmnibusDubitandum76 2 года назад +2

    Yes, Christopher, we'd hardly had our trousers off and you were gone.

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 2 года назад

    I'm against all positions (including the one that I have to be in in order to be against a position).

  • @jeffmilroy9345
    @jeffmilroy9345 2 года назад +1

    I will concede this - he bravely did not hide the alcohol when the camera was rolling. He cheerfully displayed his demigod. Different approach than Dawkins.

  • @KenyanRebelutionary
    @KenyanRebelutionary 4 года назад

    Alonso was interviewing Hitchens before joining ChelseaFc

  • @Repackrider84
    @Repackrider84 2 года назад

    I great contributor to the world!

  • @thevindictive6145
    @thevindictive6145 2 года назад +1

    Its ok Hitch, i am a bit more better at using the phone but avoid social media like the plague. But thank muatube, I realised what an amazing person exists apart from many others.

  • @eddielopez2373
    @eddielopez2373 4 года назад +7

    “...on the cyber-web,” lolz

  • @theklaus7436
    @theklaus7436 3 года назад +1

    I and I hope others will honour you and continue your work as best as our ability allows us. So please don’t just remember him. Get out and write! If I can every body can.

  • @PatrickH6973
    @PatrickH6973 2 года назад +2

    If it weren’t for RUclips I wouldn’t be as informed about religion as I am now.

    • @corneliuscapitalinus845
      @corneliuscapitalinus845 2 года назад

      Tell me about religion.

    • @PatrickH6973
      @PatrickH6973 2 года назад +1

      @@corneliuscapitalinus845Religion is a social construct created by humans thousands of years ago. Religion was created more or less to answer questions that early humans couldn't figure out. When a human saw lightning they came to the conclusion some god was causing that. Overtime religion became more of moral institution as human civilization became more complex. Most religions of the ancient era were polytheistic but the modern era gave birth to many monotheism''s, like Christianity and Islam. Religion for many centuries was instrumental in passing laws and determining who could fill government positions. All governments were theocracies. Until around the 17 and 1800's when many countries like the United States and France started a trend. Countries shouldn't be run by the clergy, but by intellectuals and elected officials. This led to a new ideology, Atheism, the lack of belief in any god/s. It is a far stretch to say that every single bad thing that happened was because of religion but almost every single war, genocide was caused in some part by religion. At this point religion is losing it's moral authority almost everywhere in the world and probably for best. However, forced Atheism is something I am against, especially when I see the suppression of Uyghurs and Tibetans in China. I definitely said something that was wrong or I oversimplified events so please feel free to critique this.

    • @drewshammy9608
      @drewshammy9608 2 года назад

      @@PatrickH6973 here here

  • @chrisb9242
    @chrisb9242 2 года назад +11

    Incest & folk dancing! Hitch was awesome.😀

    • @CowboyStag
      @CowboyStag 2 года назад

      That’s what I thought he said. I guess we would agree- a Clever line

    • @oliverholmes-gunning5372
      @oliverholmes-gunning5372 2 года назад +1

      There's a variation of that line in the opening monologue to the 2000 film Essex Boys that goes something like "I'll try anything once, me; except bestiality. Oh, and Morris dancing"

  • @cmmmmmmmw
    @cmmmmmmmw 2 года назад

    Good interviewer.

  • @JohnSmith99562
    @JohnSmith99562 Год назад

    That ribbon joke totally went over the kid's head.

  • @latetodagame1892
    @latetodagame1892 2 года назад +1

    Love that bastard!

  • @bentuber1
    @bentuber1 4 года назад +2

    I would to here a conversation between Christopher Hitchens and Brendan Behan. That would have been amazing.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад

      Hardly as Behan was a man of action where as "Hitch" was a money grabber.

  • @deirdre108
    @deirdre108 2 года назад +1

    What did he say at the end, "I'll try anything once except incest and ....?? It sounded to me like he said "folk dancing".

  • @Pannkakaize
    @Pannkakaize 3 года назад +4

    i would have loved to be able to call Hitchens a Boomer

  • @jonathangeary1879
    @jonathangeary1879 4 года назад +10

    So jealous of that guy getting to meet him

    • @jasonsterner922
      @jasonsterner922 3 года назад +4

      He also got to have a drink with him, so jealous.

    • @feonor26
      @feonor26 Год назад +1

      Me too man. What i wouldnt give to get drunk with this man while picking his brain.

  • @paulmorphy6187
    @paulmorphy6187 2 года назад +1

    Very intelligent insightful etc but I feel he underestimated the potential of women to some degree...I mean generally as a person

  • @Immperc
    @Immperc 2 года назад +1

    9 years ago. Sad

  • @foxbodyblues6709
    @foxbodyblues6709 2 года назад +1

    I’m pretty sure I know which side of the vaxx mandate debate Hitchens would be on….

  • @AOLEntertainment
    @AOLEntertainment  11 лет назад +1

    Okay then!

  • @matend8125
    @matend8125 2 года назад

    i wish he had taken a better care of himself .gone way too soon .there is no one like him

  • @petyrkowalski9887
    @petyrkowalski9887 2 года назад +3

    « I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing ». Brilliant.

  • @Huppyhuppyhuppy
    @Huppyhuppyhuppy 2 года назад

    Who did he mention was his favourite hard drinking writer? I couldn’t hear clearly

  • @dannorkol4345
    @dannorkol4345 2 года назад +2

    God - pun intended - I miss Hitch

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy 2 года назад

    He was very serious about not texting 😂 Almost like fear

  • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921
    @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 2 года назад

    Please share my two brief videos with other people. Thanks!

  • @AOLEntertainment
    @AOLEntertainment  12 лет назад +1

    Hey...

  • @toucheturtle3840
    @toucheturtle3840 2 года назад +1

    Christopher…what a legend😁🤘🏻

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      What a loser!
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

  • @trini4204
    @trini4204 2 года назад

    Why with the elevator music?? If sucks

  • @bobspinazzola2101
    @bobspinazzola2101 2 года назад +2

    I'll try anything once except incest and ???. Couldn't understand the second thing so I'm HIGHLY curious.

  • @christopherp.hitchens3902
    @christopherp.hitchens3902 3 года назад +4

    Most of us who defend drinking and smoking are lying both to ourselves and family. Had Hitch survived his cancer, he would’ve surely quit both REGARDLESS of wether it was “more of a slave than a master”.

  • @luisbarrientos3113
    @luisbarrientos3113 3 года назад

    doesnt the interviewer look like vinnie chase from entourage?

  • @jakob5643
    @jakob5643 2 года назад

    Who is the writer he mentions? Hard drinking one

    • @emho5135
      @emho5135 2 года назад

      Kingsley Amis.

    • @jakob5643
      @jakob5643 2 года назад

      @@emho5135 Thanks!

  • @novakingood3788
    @novakingood3788 3 года назад +2

    Cameraman needs a slap.

  • @petercruz1993
    @petercruz1993 11 месяцев назад

    "I'll try anything once except incest and folk-dancing"
    RIP donnie

  • @rep3e4
    @rep3e4 2 года назад +1

    I bet he is very sorry now he didn’t listen

  • @thereal8ball975
    @thereal8ball975 2 года назад

    I completed a undergrad and masters course whilst being baked the whole time. It can be done.

  • @101wormwood
    @101wormwood 2 года назад

    except for incest and "*what*" I couldnt make out and CC is wrong. 4:35

  • @anonymousanonymous5874
    @anonymousanonymous5874 4 года назад

    counting crows

  • @1990-t1j
    @1990-t1j 2 года назад

    Sadly missed. I wonder what he would have had to say about the current madness.

    • @HappyBloke81
      @HappyBloke81 2 года назад

      Probably would have supported another war on false pretences where millions of people would die. He'll go around the world promoting and fuelling it

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад

      He and his sort helped create it.

    • @joshuanun5317
      @joshuanun5317 2 года назад

      Why would you miss a man who refused to believe in Jesus Christ and encouraged many to become hell bound sinners if they do not repent of their wickedness?

  • @tshandy1
    @tshandy1 2 года назад

    Prolific mind.

    • @2fast2block
      @2fast2block 2 года назад

      Loser mind.
      Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
      --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
      Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
      Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
      Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
      crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
      www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
      www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
      Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
      Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
      We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
      Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
      God is the reason for us and all we have.
      ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
      The odds are NOT there.
      ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

    • @LifeOfRy
      @LifeOfRy 2 года назад

      @@2fast2block found yet ANOTHER comment to troll in, I see?

  • @TheViciousnessNow
    @TheViciousnessNow 4 года назад +2

    That interviewer is hot

    • @TheViciousnessNow
      @TheViciousnessNow 4 года назад

      TermsofService none of your business

    • @TheViciousnessNow
      @TheViciousnessNow 4 года назад

      @TermsofService Good for you sweetie! X

    • @bradwilson5552
      @bradwilson5552 4 года назад +2

      Really - ugh the interviewer looks like Screech

    • @channelfogg6629
      @channelfogg6629 3 года назад

      And that's all you get from the interview?

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 3 года назад +1

      Nah, he's a dickhead. What a waste of an opportunity for enlightenment.

  • @dookmorgan8578
    @dookmorgan8578 2 года назад

    (ps) I love you..

  • @MichaelKingsfordGray
    @MichaelKingsfordGray 2 года назад

    Very shallow.

  • @mervinprone
    @mervinprone 3 года назад +1

    Does this mean he would have tried being a trump supporter?

    • @generalyellor8188
      @generalyellor8188 2 года назад

      Not in a million years. He would have been astonished at and disgusted by how many weak-minded Americans worshipped the orange idiot.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад

      He was not smart enough.

  • @laserbrain7774
    @laserbrain7774 2 года назад

    squiffy whiffle!

    • @laserbrain7774
      @laserbrain7774 2 года назад

      when he refers to other writers smoking dope is he referring to heroin or marijhuana?

  • @slowfuse
    @slowfuse 3 года назад +4

    thanks for censoring the sh*t word, I'm a Christian

    • @channelfogg6629
      @channelfogg6629 3 года назад +2

      'thanks for censoring the sh*t word, I'm a Christian' - Is it wrtten anywhere that Christians must not hear the word shit?

    • @slowfuse
      @slowfuse 3 года назад

      @@channelfogg6629 yes a little thing you may have heard of called the bible

    • @donnablair4559
      @donnablair4559 2 года назад +3

      @@slowfuse I have actually read the bible, which is why I'm an atheist. I also cannot recall ever reading anywhere where it says saying "shit " is a bad thing. Would you be kind enough to give me chapter and verse so I can read it myself ? Thanks

    • @slowfuse
      @slowfuse 2 года назад

      @@donnablair4559 I have never read the bible as I never felt the need. I feel sorry that you do.

    • @jefflerner7526
      @jefflerner7526 2 года назад +1

      So, seeing or hearing "shit" would offend you but you are fine with "sh*t". Please explain.

  • @RocketKirchner
    @RocketKirchner 2 года назад

    i love Hitch but let us never forget he promoted war from an arm chair and didnt care who lived or died .

    • @tonygarrett7214
      @tonygarrett7214 2 года назад +5

      He supported what he believed to be a just war. If you read his work you will discover that he was never indifferent nor callous about the loss of life, especially at hands of tyrants.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад

      That's because he was a classic liberal.Scracth one and you will find a real little fascist.

    • @tonygarrett7214
      @tonygarrett7214 2 года назад +3

      @@sonnyirish3678
      Perhaps a contrarian but never a liberal. Your notion of liberals being fascists under the surface is a fatuous generalisation.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад +1

      @@tonygarrett7214 Oh yeah.Have you learned nothing from Covid.

    • @tonygarrett7214
      @tonygarrett7214 2 года назад +2

      @@sonnyirish3678
      Yes. That it is indiscriminate in slaughtering people of all political persuasions and religious belief. It also allowed the ignorant and illiterate a voice via social media, to promote the most bizarre ideas about Covid, thus contributing to the onslaught of the disease.

  • @SupremeSkeptic
    @SupremeSkeptic 4 года назад +4

    "There seems to be a community of people who seems to be scared of you..." 🤣 how dishonest can you be?

  • @sonnyirish3678
    @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад +1

    A man who was wrong on two massive issues.Iraq and Afghanistan and still they post about how smart he was.

    • @mallardofmodernia8092
      @mallardofmodernia8092 2 года назад +1

      Yes because an intelligent man can still be wrong. Hes not omniscient ffs.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад +1

      @@mallardofmodernia8092 Well said.The comments posted here by his fan club are plain embarrassing.They no nothing of the British class system, or England of the 1980s.They no nothing of his back ground in supporting every anti American cause from Vietnam onwards.They know nothing of the seething anti American feeling, propagated by Hitchens and his fellow travellers in Europe.Every American reverse Vietnam 75, and Iran 79 was celebrated like a world cup amongst the Bloomsbury and Hampstead.Then when they wanted to make money, these hypocrites moved to the USA to grift from gullible Americans.Americans on the east coast always fall for a plummy voice from Britain.
      And as always the easiest mark to make money off is attacking Christianity.Its strange that the great "Hitch" who shouted loud and wide about religion never went to real Godless country like China.They always head to a country founded by Christians.America can never win,its hated by atheists because of its deep Christian heritage (TV evangelists are not Chrsitian but grifters).Its told its racist, but 150 and nationalities have been picked up at its Southern border.
      As for Hitchens,the man was so deeply flawed its hard to know what he was ever right on.

    • @mallardofmodernia8092
      @mallardofmodernia8092 2 года назад

      @@sonnyirish3678 I wasnt agreeing with you , I was just responding to why what you said makes no sense and saying China is godless (or insinuating its atheist) is funny seeming as though they have a large population of muslims (although the CCP despises muslims), buddhists, spiritualists (cant remember what they call it), even some christians etc, Chinese philosophy and its current collectively organised society isnt just a product of its history of the past 70 years but its spiritual, religious history too.
      The Chinese government openly supports spiritual martial arts which is something hitchens would despise. China in its agricultural areas is even more religious, spiritual than the US.
      You're lack of knowledge of other nations is showing...
      He's attacking something he sees as a scam, something that doesnt deserve to exist in a modern civil society, its not grifting, its called having ideals. And he has to live somewhere, presumbly somewhere that caters to his needs and wants, plus if he wanted to change the world to be more atheistic why would you go to an atheist country? Thats just preaching to the choir. Missionaries dont go, preach at the places already fully devoted to their god, so why would Hitchens?
      If you're criticising Hitchens on his thoughts on Iraq and Afghanistan then thats fine but you should hold the same standards for those with the same beliefs as you who also wanted intervention nameably those within government. And if the US kept its promise of separating church from state then Hitchens wouldnt be there giving seminars, speeches, interviews etc.

    • @mallardofmodernia8092
      @mallardofmodernia8092 2 года назад

      @@sonnyirish3678 and on racism a nations people in many areas can be racist whilst its government arent and vice versa. And the US does have a racism issue, a very visible one hence why its reported so often, although other nations also have these issues but on a smaller scale like the UK or France and especially China, China's is a massive issue (although many audiences find this a sensitive topic so it doesnt get reported often).

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 2 года назад +1

      @@mallardofmodernia8092 The church and state are seperated in America.Hitchens choose to live in the USA because its a wealthy country he could make money in.
      And no offence have you not heard of the genocide against the Uyghyurs,thats how much the CCP like religion.China is a police state end of story.I think you should find out more about its treatment of its own population.As for the US government I hold them in total contempt.The day I would be in league with Bush,Cheney,Powell,Rumsfeld and co is a day that would never happen.Howver this man Hitchens stood four square with them .Even in 2011, when it was obvious he was wrong,he would never concede that he was wrong

  • @mysticwine
    @mysticwine 2 года назад +1

    Satan is well pleased with this fool of his!

  • @MegaSage007
    @MegaSage007 4 года назад +2

    ''And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.'' (Romans 1:28)

    • @yazminrobinson1184
      @yazminrobinson1184 4 года назад +5

      Ed Wellington your argument from the bible doesn’t make sense, if God made them that way, why punish those who don’t believe?

    • @Paine137
      @Paine137 4 года назад +1

      Fake god.

    • @colejames423
      @colejames423 4 года назад +4

      “Created sick and commanded to be well”
      Very nice

    • @colejames423
      @colejames423 4 года назад

      @David Tucker - AND we're all guilty for the sins of our fathers
      Also very nice

    • @yazminrobinson1184
      @yazminrobinson1184 4 года назад

      David Tucker all of you just said is contradictory, how can you say that god gives us free will, then punish us for exercising free will especially when the all loving, all knowing god in question contradict his own definition, and no atheists lean on each other people figured out for themselves that religion doesn’t make any sense.

  • @JimmyRJump
    @JimmyRJump 2 года назад +2

    A pity seeing a non-descript, almost devout person, taking an interview from a god mostly at ease with the adoration rightly so bestowed upon him; sorryful interviewer, indulgent intervewee. (edited, because hey, typos)

  • @keithsada1380
    @keithsada1380 2 года назад

    Why would anyone be afraid of this dead man? He's entitled to his opinion but that's all it is. He never had any proof that God doesn't exist. It's just his own belief. It means nothing. I have felt the presence of the Most Holy so I know that He exists. It's not just my belief.

    • @tonygarrett7214
      @tonygarrett7214 2 года назад +1

      That’s all you have - your opinion. You have no proof that God exists. Having an emotional experience in feeling that a supernatural entity exists is not evidence. Don’t you realise that you have contradicted yourself? And stop dancing on corpses. It’s a cheap and despicable tactic. Shame on you.

  • @dogegamer3288
    @dogegamer3288 2 года назад

    "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." --Atheism and Nihilism in a nutshell.

  • @2fast2block
    @2fast2block 2 года назад

    Hitch who pretends to know the bible as he screws up on it over and over again including what faith means biblically.
    --"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”-- Christopher Hitchens
    Now, look at what biblical faith really means that Hitch the liar didn't even look at:
    Biblically, faith means trust. It's a trust by evidence seen. God asks that we prove things. To reason. To get knowledge. To study. God has nothing to hide. We develop trust from what is seen, and that which is not seen yet is trusted also because of the trust built up from what is seen. It's much like a human relationship. We don't trust much until a person has gained that trust from what is observed. The difference is though, God is not limited to human powers. He created us.
    Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
    crossexamined.org/biblical-faith-vs-blind-faith/
    www.truthortradition.com/articles/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith
    www.revisedenglishversion.com/Appendix/16/Faith_is_Trust
    www.truthortradition.com/articles/faith-a-confident-expectation-of-gods-promises-coming-to-pass
    www.truthortradition.com/articles/hebrews-1-11-and-faith
    Hitchens always went into evasive word antics to avoid key questions like how we got the creation of the universe.
    Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space, and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
    We can't even get science without God. The laws of nature only can come from a Lawgiver, God.
    Life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
    God is the reason for us and all we have.
    ruclips.net/video/JiMqzN_YSXU/видео.html
    The odds are NOT there.
    ruclips.net/video/W1_KEVaCyaA/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/yW9gawzZLsk/видео.html
    ruclips.net/video/ddaqSutt5aw/видео.html

  • @nothingmatters321
    @nothingmatters321 5 лет назад +1

    blah blah...I am the greatest thing since Orwell...blah blah...

    • @PureSwedishViking
      @PureSwedishViking 5 лет назад +45

      He never said anything like that; on the contrary, he rejected any attempt by others to compare him to Orwell. Why don’t you stop putting words in a dead mans mouth? Have you no shame?

    • @nothingmatters321
      @nothingmatters321 5 лет назад +2

      @@PureSwedishViking Hitchens may have told people to not compare him, but the fact of the matter is he was drawing a very clear line between his own journalistic methods and Orwell's in letters to a young contrarian. This comparison, of course, was rendered meaningless when Hitchens became a shameless apologist for imperialist violence.

    • @PureSwedishViking
      @PureSwedishViking 5 лет назад +24

      steiner333
      So why not write that, instead of slandering the man? Why write a false statement if you knew it was not true? As for being an apologist for ”imperialist violence”; if that’s the term you want use for describing someone advocating intervention to overthrow dictators, then by all means you are free to do so. I was just wondering if you would also apply that to Hitchens when he was stating the case that an intervention should have taken place in Rwanda against the genocide, and that Brittain did a noble thing in pushing back the liberian invasion of Sierra Leone, thus preventing another genocide. Imperialist violence, indeed...

    • @nothingmatters321
      @nothingmatters321 5 лет назад +2

      @@PureSwedishViking Sure, the US and Britain have nothing but the best interests of these people mind, particularly when we were selling Hussein guns and obstructing efforts within Iraq to overthrow him. But I suppose when we support dictators it's only a problem when we say it is.

    • @PureSwedishViking
      @PureSwedishViking 5 лет назад +14

      @@nothingmatters321 If selling weapons to him was so bad; aren´t you happy then that it was decided by the coalition that having him in power was a huge mistake and he should have been overthrown? All the past blunders and crimes should, in my opinion, warrant a responsibility by those guilty of this crime to make up for this and overthrow the dictator that had been supported in the past. Every attempt to overthrow him in the past by the iraqi people had actually been prevented by the FOUR secret police forces Hussein had at his disposal (which you fail to mention).
      And you didn´t answer my question. Is it ``imperial violence´´ to apply the same need for taking responsibility in using intervention to prevent genocide, which is what Hitchens was arguing for.

  • @pauls.6360
    @pauls.6360 Год назад

    Thank you. Now get to work.

  • @channelfogg6629
    @channelfogg6629 3 года назад +10

    A long evening in the pub with Mr Hitchens would have been a pleasure to remember. Alas, never to be.

  • @azspotfree
    @azspotfree 3 года назад +8

    So Hitch didn't spend a lot of time worrying about what his critics thought then, Imagine that.

  • @mili3212
    @mili3212 4 года назад +2

    "i took a long time to get onto email" lmao

  • @eddyk2016
    @eddyk2016 2 года назад

    I wonder how much water he mixed his whisky with. It looks very diluted. I'm just curious as I want to try it the way he drank it.