Christopher Hitchens - On FOX News with Bill Donohue discussing the Catholic sex scandals

March 2010.
'Fair and balanced debate' with Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on FOX News.

[@jesusnthedaisychain]

Bill Donahue. If you can't raise a point, just raise your volume.

[@clare5one]

+jesusnthedaisychain He always talks like that. Get him on the phone, same thing.

[@M0j0S0D0pe420]

Or your weiner

[@brawnerbandwidthmusic2529]

That's true

[@user-bg3bb8kh5h]

@@clare5one point still stands

[@lowlypeasant]

..and now a word from the pro-child rape side.

[@loly1969]

" excuse me , clearer and clearer " how ab that , hitchens never missed a word , what a champion

[@omegapointil5741]

Ditto man, and ditto on Mark Knofler.

[@ElvisTranscriber2]

Yeah.... and also, Curiouser and Curiouser sounds flippant and disrespectful to the victims, if you are talking about the evidence for hideous attitudes of allowing abuse to continue!

[@SJ-xy5md]

Uh Donahue completely destroyed Hitchens. He never wanted a piece of Donahue

[@Edlikesturtles]

Bill Donohue's argument in a nutshell: "It's ok to rape and torture children, as long as no one finds out for at least 15 years."

[@marcuscoe2020]

It wasn’t even proven ya goose

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

​@@marcuscoe2020It was not proven because the hierarchy of the church did everything possible to cover up and protect the child rapist priests. In order to preserve the reputation of the church, the church leaders disregarded the child victims. You are a disgrace to humanity to defend them.

[@JohnSmith-lc5jk]

A _very_ strange definition of debate. They have Christopher on first, then give Donohoe the opportunity to deny and insult but don't give Christopher any opportunity to rebut. One might almost think that Fox News weren't *Fair and Balanced*!

[@chadodell4887]

They only let Donohoe have the last word so their mindless viewer would be left with something they most likely would agree with. Not to mention when they do have a debate they just cut it up into pieces they like with the side they like "winning".

[@kushpreetsingh]

See the length people stoop down to when trying to defend their religion

[@omegapointil5741]

Nailed it.

[@triggerhapp0990]

So wish Christopher was still alive today! So missed 😞

[@Savior20061]

Too bad they sent Hitchens away so he couldn't rip Donahue to shreds.

[@roder51]

+Savior20061 Fox works that way. I would have listened to Donahue but I like to keep my IQ at 140.

[@fullblowngaming]

whos here in aug 2018 and laughing at the irony of just how right the hitch was!!!

[@thethikboy]

When does Fox ever have a fair and balanced debate?

[@TallGuy205]

How is it a debate when only one side has the opportunity to respond to the other?

[@richarddavis1163]

Do I misunderstand the meaning of the word "debate"?

[@ChollieD]

Thumbs up if you only bothered with the first half of this video.

[@tradovicka]

"Not curiouser and curiouser miss, Clearer and Clearer!" That the Hitch i know, owned her with one word !!!!!!

[@Gintonious]

How can Donohue try and defend any of these acts in anyway? Vile human.

[@yespub234]

What a wasted opportunity - not having them debate the issue. Also notice that not once did Mr. Donohue mention the children - you know the "actual" victims. Well, what can we expect - he is after all a christian.

[@omegapointil5741]

Hitchens may have been the one man on Earth who most didn't depend on spoon fed information for his reasoning. It was all transparent to him.

[@cBearTV-]

i,d also like to add that catholic child abuse cases arent just historic,...there have been many within recent years so for him to imply theres no problem now is shameful shame on him. children and survivors deserve far far more. shame on all who cover for abusers.

[@acgsmith5937]

I miss the Hitch!

[@jimmythegreek2472]

Me too

[@thatmanstu23]

Defending the indefensible is just another aspect of believing in the unbelievable...Once reality is suspended,anything is possible........

[@lingjien]

Chris Hitchens is what I Imagine Bruce Wayne would be like if he was real

[@lordofliberals2261]

I LOVE Hitchens' interruption to the anchor!

[@robg71]

Ahhh Its ok it happened in 1966 !!!

[@mgm8822]

I love how they put the sound on the video to try to drown him out.

[@MIKE1236936]

"Fair and balanced debate" on FOX News".Isn't that an oxymoron?

[@christieryan2786]

+Mike Henwood Any media debate that prefixes with 'fair and balanced' instantly make me think it probably isn't so. It's a bit like when people say 'I'm not being racist, but...' just before they say something racist

[@roder51]

+Mike Henwood The poor blond bimbo don't know what the f**k she's talking about.

[@MIKE1236936]

+roder51 And doesn't know who she's dealing with,poor thing.

[@dallashumanist]

So "it happened a long time ago" now makes child rape ok. Got it.

[@feduntu]

well what can you do about it? children have been abused for as long as humanity existed, are we gonna dig our past and imprison each and every human bone we find? oh that will work

[@KBTNFishing]

1996 and this was in 2010....14 years after they knew, something wasn't done.

[@66Viscount]

(Second part) Somebody attempting to defend the indefensible.

[@scootyjunior]

My appetite for Hitchens grows daily, sadly there is no more.

[@billjackson8357]

A much missed iconoclast the likes of which we shall not see again in our lifetime Tragic that he left us so early when his insight into so many current issues affecting the planet would have been so valuable

[@dannyleo4791]

This is one of the many reasons why I have no respect for Catholicism or Christianity. Way too many hypocrites.

[@ntygrty2924]

judge not lest ye be judged first

[@poptomop]

Every video I see with Bill Donohue makes my distaste for him grow exponentially.

[@smokeyweed5424]

A fair a me balanced debate wouldn't have let Donahue off so easily and not having to confront the Hitch

[@ConqueringFool1]

Awesome.. I love how Bill Donohue stops short of saying "witch hunt" and ops to say "hunt" instead, because we all know who the originators of the actual so called "witch hunts" were. I suppose if it's the "social norm" at the time, then it must be okay. And to think all these priests, at the very most may receive, is being fired or fined, not burned at the stake, which if it were the other way around, would be happening.. How is it?.. "Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun!!".. ;) ;)

[@adamtzsch]

Spotlight had yet to happen.

[@2l84t]

Would time matter if it happened to you, Mr. Donohue ?

[@ZER0--]

+2l84t He's enjoy it.

[@roder51]

+2l84t Never call a scumbag Mr.

[@CristhianS]

Lol at all the hate against Donohue. All it proves is that he was indeed Hitchen's Kryptonite.

[@woodytheduke]

wow,,,you indoctrinated idiot!!!

[@DavieDave59]

Wow, this was actually fair. Fox News surprised me.

[@Disciple1000]

That was not a debate. Donahue doesn't get off so easy when Hitchens is there to challenge his claims, as in other shows. But's it's Fixed news, nothing fair and balanced about it. Donahue lies and pulls "facts" from his ass. Hitchens was right when he called him a dunce and a big mouthed liar.

[@csnowutube]

Why is Donahue so LOUD!!!?

[@TimLambert101]

If you can't win the argument try to shout down your opponent

[@JackGleason543]

@@TimLambert101 Donohoe's argument destroyed hitchens lies. Your atheist tears taste delicious

[@TimLambert101]

@@JackGleason543 A childish comment

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

To compensate for the weakness of his argument..

[@Iluvrocket]

drawing attention to another organization doing wrong in order to lessen blame on your own organization for doing the exact same thing is not a legitimate argument. Following up on that, saying, "we only got 6 molesters" and that Jewish and secular organizations have more, (he didn't mention numbers for these) and then that the Church is a "model" to these organizations, and that there's a hunt going on against Catholicism, there's nothing you can say about or to this guy, he's completely self-absorbed.

[@midnightcompass2847]

'Fair and balanced debate' implies a debate takes place. This is not a debate. This is two points of view being put forward without the input of the opposition debater.

[@mervinprone]

It’s even worse than that because Donahue got to respond to Hitchens but Hitchens didn’t get to respond to Donahue. We know this because Donahue refers to Hitchens, (“about the only thing I agree with” talking about Wisconsin)

[@Geoffthebull]

As soon as a person tries to get his opinion across by shouting.....I switch off.

[@anall3l3]

Excuse me! But there is no debate here, children were molested and the perpetrators are getting away with this. You have to be paid and soulless to be cynical of those saying the truth.

[@chrishachet8622]

it is unreal how little respect I have for the Catholic church.

[@thomascorder6686]

Anyone else notice at 5:35 that the guy highlighted looks a lot like Steven Segal?

[@RonPaulOrDie]

yo what's up with the pope's left hand at 1:30?

[@7buddha]

What other side? He does not refute anything Hitchens says, he just does not think its bad... Because it was a long time ago and things were different then, so it was and is okay not to arrest rapists...

[@garymorgan3314]

Indeed to appoint a man who helped hush it all up Pope; Ratzinger knew...as if he wouldn't. They'll never get over this in Ireland, will they over there?

[@ANTINUTZI]

... St. Archiebald of Bunker flames & froths ever onward. Anyone for spit-roasting this porky-fest on co-conspiracy charges re: *before and after the fact?*

[@Mafubeard]

To Fox's audience, I wonder who was more convincing.

[@bigmarty11288]

"...A fair and balanced debate..." Fair? Of course. Balanced? Well, I think you'll find that, as per usual, the scales of effective argument are tipped in Sir Hitchens favour.

[@kevinkards]

close the church down it is corrupt

[@brawnerbandwidthmusic2529]

Has this Donohue defended Pell?

[@gilgameshaeternus960]

Shouting American. If you say it loud and proud in the USA the sheeple will believe you. The more ridiculous the better.

[@kevinkards]

the christian faith is based on orisis 1500 years before the myth of jesus

[@markmurphy9625]

The church is the immaculate bride of Christ it is perfect where it is held without compromise. The fact that there are bad people in the church does not change this. In the end the immaculate heart will triumph, and the fallen angel Satan himself knows this to be true.

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

That's silly. You are defending the child molesters. Vile creep.

[@markmurphy9625]

The fruit of Vatican 2 in all of its novelty is rotten, the apostasy is at the top... in the end it will be over family and marriage, pray for the bishops, say the rosary daily and pray that the Holy Father consecrate Russia to her immaculate heart in the precise way she requested. Our lady of Fatima pray for us.

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

Okay muppet

[@tonyfornby5458]

What is going on with Christopher Hitchens background shot?

[@squiggofant]

cgi flames

[@Keithies7]

this man insults me

[@vanguard4065]

donahue beat hutchens at his own game

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

No he didn't. All he did was shout. And defended the church cover up of child rapists.

[@michaelorsini9695]

Donohue was right, Hitchens was wrong.

[@thedoors4549]

sexcase

[@Pdmc-vu5gj]

You are a disgrace to defend child molesters.

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

Donohue walked on Hitchens like an old carpet... again!

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

***** Would you mind saying that again in English?

[@shaggz20022002]

Do you defend pedophiles and condone child abuse as well?

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

shaggz20022002 No. How did you draw that conclusion?

[@straubdavid9]

There is no winners here you ignorant putz! However, there definitely is a loser - THE CHILDREN!! It doesn't matter if one group is "more" complicate ( by sheer numbers) in this crime. Each and every one of these vile acts stands on it's own merit. The difference is when one group or another conspires to hide and thereby create an atmosphere of continued abuse, that you assign a stronger destain for the offending group. Do you not hold a police officer to a higher standard when it comes to breaking the law? When the people we "trust" the most with our children, break that trust in a most heinous way - EXPECT SEVERE FALLOUT!

[@MFricke91]

***** He (shaggz) drew that conclusion from the same place that you drew your conclusion.

[@ShantyIrishman]

HItch flat out lied, glad we have people like Donohue to defend the innocent. Hope you are feeling warming Chris.

[@myusername6595]

To defend the innocent pedophiles? The question is should priests who commit crimes be dealt with by the secular government or the church. If you believe that the pope has a right to forgive pedophiles (because of his magic hat I suppose) then keep on believing that, and I hope I never meet you.

[@myusername6595]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260536/Pope-implicated-cover-paedophile-priest-sex-abuse-200-deaf-boys.html Oh and they did report this multiple times to the authorities at the deaf school, who did not do anything. The pope may not have found out until the nineties, but he does seem to believe that the Vatican has a right to forgive American criminals. What if the Dalai Lama protected someone who raped you, accepted their apology and urged you to forgive them?

[@myusername6595]

And also, Hitchens goes to hell? But I assume Father Murphy's in heaven because he apologized?

[@ansett7687]

you should be ashamed, sitting on the sidelines cheering for an organisation who did so many unspeakable things with the vulnerable and refused to even acknowledge these wrong doings until they were forced into a corner. The fact that you are the cheer squad for this man is completely abhorrent, go and say a few hail mary's and dip your head in that tap water that is apparently blessed and all will be forgiven i suppose.....wake up to yourself.

[@soulpunch9933]

So you wish that Chris is burning in hell? How Christian and 'innocent" of you.