Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)

[@tubbytuba21]

I keep telling myself that there is nothing new under the sun, that there is not a stash of Hitchens videos waiting to be discovered… And then I find a couple now. Where are they coming from? Thank you, Great Benefactor!

[@scotts3409]

It's incredible that half these callers were able to dial the correct number.

[@willmpet]

They had to dial a number of times.

[@Pablosko611]

My guess is that this was just poorly recorded cutting out the number

[@thekidd7]

Well done for the upload. Much appreciated!!

[@johnruggiero4205]

The call-in part of this show, that happened at 5:30am:est, & 2:30:am:pt aren’t always produce those who are mentally stable. I’ve watched many of these C-Span call-in programs featuring Christopher Hitchens, & this was the weirdest.

[@FreeRadical1015]

I like listening to these call ins with Hitchens but it's hard and often cringeworthy to listen to the callers. You'd think people would be prepared before calling a national show. They get on the air and it's "uhmm, uh.... ummm ....". Get it together for goodness sake.

[@FreeRadical1015]

+Bundy how do you know I was referring to you?

[@Itsatumor]

I hear you, if you can't string a fucking sentence together don't pick up the phone.

[@smcic]

How would you sound at 5am? Or 2am if you live in Seattle?

[@thesmylexfrontG]

C-SPAN is known for these unique calls. I think they stem from similarly unique personalities which I would justify to at least two reasons. (1) To be a dedicated viewer of C-SPAN means to care about the political machinery quite deeply. Many unstable individuals can be described as such, notably those prey to paranoia. This type of caller would struggle with cohesively expressing himself. (2) C-SPAN may appear to be an outlet for expressing political or otherwise social concerns to these callers. The callers may rarely even watch C-SPAN but know it as such an outlet and therefore call in when their concerns are boiling over. This type of caller would speak in either a stream-of-consciousness or otherwise without structure as they are more so going through a masturbatory outburst.

[@tylerlately]

I know right

[@1984isnotamanual]

16:50 I’d love to watch those televised debates with graydon Carter

[@LumenVigil]

Surely someone has it

[@takerdust]

I could never call in c-span without at least one example of a point I have. What is wrong with people?

[@chokin78]

I didn't get up I stayed up LOL

[@Charmhole]

Guy at 23:00 did the ol' wake'n'bake haha.

[@nothanniballecktor9633]

+Adam Service Sounds like Brett Keane, lol.

[@tylerlately]

"Doesn't sound as if he does" LOLLL

[@AB25a1]

Man, Hitchens definitely went all-in on the paradigm of nation-states.

[@HappyinJapan358]

He looks so hungover, wish I was with him the night before

[@TheGlobuleReturns]

23:29 hahahahahahahaha

[@VolkColopatrion]

How could Christopher Hitchens be called right-wing? Has the American left really been so stupid?

[@Charmagh110]

38:44

[@AncientRylanor69]

or

[@bruceblackerby3742]

One can only imagine his thoughts on Biden's disastrous failure in Afghanistan. And his thoughts on Biden. Probably be disgusted with both.

[@cavaliermama56]

How convenient that you’re forgetting that Trump set up the withdrawal date. Maybe you don’t know that.

[@bruceblackerby3742]

@@cavaliermama56 your point is? Biden fucked up the withdrawal, plain and simple. His own administration has conceded this.

[@AK-ic1yj]

trump and his cultists are so lame.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

@@cavaliermama56 Didn't you know that everything wrong in the world was caused by the Dem. party and that all will be right now that Trump and the lunatic fringe will hold court and fix everything. If they don't it's because of they will be forced to replace the entire democratic system make it vanish so that we as a nation of free men and women can arrive at Orwell's 1984 nightmare. The excuse is of course it's for our on good.

[@ragglefraggle9111]

Hitchens would have written a series of books on Trump so long that JR Tolkien would have blushed

[@belljam23]

I loathe call-in shows. Every caller #1 sounds like a moron #2 they never get to the point. Always a rambling monologue without any discernable question. Painful.

[@stickykitty]

18:12 I find it totally suspect That everytime the questioning of Jewish involvement is brought up This bellend just cuts the caller off Seen it on more that one occasion

[@Neagnosis]

The Host immediately felt the panic and his conditioning cut in. We're not allowed to question or implicate The Masters. Although Hitchens does not fall for this so easily, he seems to think Global Zionism is as pretend as religion is, a shame but as sharp as he is, he did clearly make a few bad calls and this was among one of them

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

Hitch was brilliant before 2001. What a waste of potential bc of his booze.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

His wasted potential was his business. alone. Couple questions, do you point that bright light of judgement ever at yourself by chance and change? Also, what exactly have you produced that measures up to his life's work ? He is missed, will you be?

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

@ Capitalize your lowercase “a” in “alone,” and your nonsensical response seems grown from your own inadequacies.

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

@@MandatoryReporter2015 Thanks for your simply inane response.Glad to see your ire, it made my day!

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

@@TerlinguaTalkeetna Your own inadequacy makes your day. Peak narcissist.

[@mylesgeronimo4976]

He's a walking contradiction. An interesting Brit.

[@FreeRadical1015]

With their history of everything from literature to comedy, only an illiterate, uncultured mong would make that comment.

[@Azrael76667]

I'm 6 years late but aren't all of us in a way walking contradictions. No one can have an unchanging set of ideals.

[@DontDrinkthatstuff]

Not really. He was a Marxist and never really stopped being one deep down despite his supposed deconversion.

[@ScrubDusters]

Contradiction? Or gone through a metamorphic stage and recognizes and even puts the context behind his previous thoughts and motives - sounds a lot more just than these snakes who can hide plainly with ease

[@LoveBandit1000]

Lost a LOT of respect for Hitchens in this video. Yes, Gorbachev deserves a lot of credit for letting the Eastern European client states of theirs leave. BUT none of it ever would have happened without the military and MORAL pressure Reagan fearlessly put on the Soviets. If Carter was still president, that wall would still be intact whether Hitchens wants to admit he was totally and unequivocally wrong or not...SHAME ON CHRISTOPHER! He was too small of a man to admit he was contemporaneously wrong on this issue...

[@HaleysComet81]

You're a fucking clown

[@MikeinAustin]

Reagan had as much “moral” pressure on the Soviets as Bono did for ending hunger in Africa. Gorbachev had a long term plan and executed it transparently and fully almost to a schedule . Gorbachev believed in the Russian People more than he did the Communist party. The very deserved deep set black eye of all of Stalinism and Leninism were on display with the abysmal regard for its people wrt to Chernobyl and Afghanistan clinging to Russian dogma. US Military expediency didn’t change anything. Reagan knew it was the right time to try to take credit for something 20+ years in incubation. US/Russian Historians saw Glastnost and Perestroika as inevitable. That Reaganism was seen as putting any pressure is laughable.

[@robertgendron4683]

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

[@mylesgeronimo4976]

He's a walking contradiction. An interesting Brit.