My new favorite person: Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens, promoting his new book "God Is Not Great (How Religion Poisons Everything)", has done a bunch of talk shows this week.

Until this morning, I had only seen/heard him on Bill Maher's show. But with the death of Jerry Falwell, he got a five-minute spot on Anderson Cooper's show, where he blasted Falwell while the rest of the world was praising him.

He made quite a splash, and the next day, appeared on Hannity and Colmes' show.

With these two clips, plus his aforementioned appearance on Maher's show this week (before Falwell's death), he knocks David Milch out of the #1 spot on my list of Favorite People in the World. Of course, Milch could win it back next month, when "John from Cincinnati" premieres on HBO.

EDIT: Please, please, please, let's find a way to keep this thread from getting moved to the politics and religion forum that I never go to.

[mjkidd]

"If he read the bible -- which I doubt; I don't think he could read any long book"

LOL

[kyleb]

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EDIT: Please, please, please, let's find a way to keep this thread from getting moved to the politics and religion forum that I never go to.

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...promoting his new book "God Is Not Great (How Religion Poisons Everything)"...

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...where he blasted Falwell while the rest of the world was praising him.

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[Boris]

Hitchens is awesome. I would vote for him if he ran for president. I pretty much agree with his views on Kissinger, Clinton, Iraq War, etc...

[nick604]

His brother Peter is funnier, for all the wrong reasons. They stopped talking to each other a couple of years ago, and despite re-reading this transcript quite a few times, I still don't really understand why...

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CH: When I was at Oxford I had a friend called Fran Hazelton, who was an actress at the time, and she was also a member of the Communist party. When the party split over the invasion of Czechoslovakia, in August 1968, she told me she'd had a row with her father. Her father, who had served in the Communist party, said one should never criticise the party, and she'd said her father had said, 'Prague, I don't care about Prague, I won't be happy till I see the Red Army watering it's horses in the Thames.' In Hendon I think he said, or somewhere like that. And I thought it was quite funny, and must have told it many times, and must have told it in the hearing of Peter, because a week after September 11, when I'm up to here with [censored] in the United States who are saying Chomskyian things, what I don't need, is to get [in] the Spectator my brother recalling, 'I don't see why Christopher has become so pro-American; I can remember when he said he wouldn't be happy until he saw the Red Army watering its horses in the Thames.' And I thought, well what I thought was '[censored] you'. I don't need this, I don't need it from [my] brother.



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[NU Star]

Yeah, I've seen this guy on a few shows and really like him. Has he been an actor, because he looks familiar.

[mjkidd]

"If you gave Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox"

GOLD

[kidcolin]

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Yeah, I've seen this guy on a few shows and really like him. Has he been an actor, because he looks familiar.

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I think he just appears in a lot of things. He was on Penn and Teller's BS!

I don't know much about his politics or his work, but what I've seen in him, I found him interesting and well spoken.

[Dilznoofus]

I could watch Hitch own Hannity all day long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens

[gisb0rne]

Whether you agree with his opinion or not I don't think his constant insults and name-calling are appropriate for rational discussion.