Christopher Hitchens interview on Thomas Jefferson and more (2005)

Hitchens offers his opinion on US foreign policy and gives insight into the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, the subject of his latest book.
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[@Faisaluvs]

Man I missed this man. I really would have wanted to see his opinions the state of US politics today.

[@JackBirdbath]

He would cut right through the bullshit with wit and humor and get labeled as a filthy libtard, is my guess.

[@alexb9969]

Almost June 2023. He'd be abhorred. Maybe with this intellectual movement, things wouldn't have degenerated so bad

[@fernandopessoa7077]

Jesus, Hitch has had a hard night on the grain before this..

[@bethh.9647]

Well, he had quite a few didn't he? Read an article in Slate that stated he tried once or twice to quit the vice but just couldn't or didn't want to. Had been drinking and smoking from a very young age. Yet his writing never stopped and he had such a great huge mind, clever wit and charisma.

[@luyolomify]

He looks sober in this interview normally he’s inebriated in these. Still had one of the sharpest minds of our generation.

[@roddyboethius1722]

Haven't we all?

[@fozzz-vb5oj]

I drank some too

[@jamesedward9306]

Miss Hitch terribly. RIP CH.

[@jimmyolsen5897]

Did you know him

[@DennisSullivan-om3oo]

@@jimmyolsen5897 I say that, even though I didn't even meet him.

[@floydjackson1961]

I would have loved to have met Hitchens, what a great human

[@jakehensley1210]

Sometimes Charlie interrupts way too much. Let the guy answer the question!!😂

[@gswhipkey1]

Was looking for this comment. I really enjoy most of Charlie's interview work, but here, my god! Shut up and let Hitch talk!

[@davidclark9086]

He does it so often, I have to leave the interview than come back later.

[@malancronje6805]

He thinks the world has to hear his opinion. They all do, most nowadays try to steer the conversation to what their propagandist overlords want them to portray.

[@robertpoen5383]

Rose the Interrruptor but Hitchens barrels right through him.

[@toAdmiller]

​@@malancronje6805After Laura iIngraham on Fox kept interrupting Hitch during his answers to HER QUESTIONS, Hitch smirked at her and said ,"You really must have me on more often so that you can tell me what you think...". Savage.

[@Viky.A.V.]

Thank you a lot for sharing this!

[@Flitalidapouet]

Funny how I love the guy even if I am a firm believer. And at last they put the microphone properly, I don't know why ALL interviews with Hitchens have very poor microphone emplacement, and turns his grave voice into mumbling. This interview is clear and easy to ear. Good God Thank you micro guy.

[@kmilford100]

You are a foolish person and like a small minded creature you focus on the banal, the placement of a microphone.

[@RobertBolton-wk1zr]

as ever, a class act.

[@adamcasey6509]

I know it's now a long time ago but this is a beautiful example of when brains held more importance than "presence" and I'll interrupt you if it's not my thing

[@ron8944]

I watch Bill Maher, primarily to hear the guests, some of which are political opponents. Point is, he is too full of himself and it brings repeated interruptions. People who are intelligent, well read, & knowledgeable about issues that are brought up for discussion, Unlike Maher, who over talks the guests & cuts them off, Christopher Hitchens has the smarts, knowledge, & balls, to resist Charlie's attempts to display his own "smarts". He is determined to finish his comments. Screw the arrogance that detracts from an otherwise thoughtful, & entertaining, new book promotion.

[@markwilliams974]

Christopher was a frequent guest on Bill Maher. He flipped off the audience on a few occasions which was great!

[@bethh.9647]

@@ron8944 Maher is a comedian and has said multiple times that it's his show. Rose interrupts too however Christopher didn't seem to mind, having been on the show many times. In fact, they were friends socially with Rose as a frequent guest at the Hitchens-Blue home during the 1990s and early 2000s. "Hitch", I doubt there will be another like him.

[@fruitingfungi]

"Privileged house servent" thats one way to put it. 6:38

[@lynnlobliner3933]

Charlie Rose doesn't know when to shut his mouth. He likes to think he knows what his interviewee is thinking and interject. He does not have conversations because he can't stop interrupting.

[@NoNameNo.5]

I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING. Christopher is a master of words and has the flair of intellect that makes him a joy to just hear and Rose keeps interrupting

[@channelfogg6629]

Precisely what I was thinking. He has a trivial mind and seems to think opening his moth hides that rather than revealing it.

[@lynnhuddleston1190]

I agree completely

[@captur69]

Seconds in ....and already interrupting and trying to finish his sentences...twat...

[@lenpey]

Very true. Rose enjoys his own wit.

[@susanblake9994]

Totally agree with Lynn Lobliner--Charlie Rose isn't as smart, educated, well-read, or as thoughtful as Hitchens. Rose also is incredibly annoying as he steps over Hitchens' answers to the questions he obviously didn't write himself.

[@jaixzz]

infuriating Chaz desperate to chip off. - & take home - a chunk of hitch

[@susanblake9994]

@@jaixzz How did Rose get to be such a prominent interviewer back in the day, anyway? Apparently, he was also a total perv, as well. Must have had family pull.

[@jaixzz]

@@susanblake9994 'yea verily' I do relish the Hitch view of nearly everything - so refreshing😎

[@susanblake9994]

@@jaixzz Right on. I would so love to hear his take on the Sussexes and the whole Woke movement in general. R.I.P., Hitch--we miss your biting pen.

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

@@susanblake9994 Referring to Woke as a movement is a bit like saying the 1960's counterculture represented the entire Baby Boom generation, it was a small percentage of the entire generation. It was loud, visible and covered relentlessly by the media but ultimately it was a temporary, small and not very significant. Regardless of what Republican politicians want us to think, Woke is a fad, insignificant and not aptly defined, if at all, by those who rail against it. Hitch would treat it the same way that he dismissed questions about 9/11 being an inside job, with distain.

[@its_rick_james_bich2575]

18:00 “the various secular people of Iraq will want to say thank you for the US’s intervention” Yeah..I’m not entirely sure about that one!! Iraq is one of the very few things I disagreed with Hitchens on, but it was a huge thing..from the invasion to the ramifications almost 20 years later!

[@markheitz7963]

I advise ne1 to read C,Hitchens books or get them on audible books there's too many to list here he has a wonderful style and is extremely well founded in depths in each subject he writes about,

[@NoNameNo.5]

Yes….but it’s almost a tragedy to hear the words of Hitchens not in his voice. His tone, inflection, and flair ….his whit is thought to duplicate

[@markheitz7963]

@@NoNameNo.5 God is not great he did record it, so it's just brilliant

[@markheitz7963]

@@NoNameNo.5 put reply in my message read it BUDDY

[@hayden3975]

​@@NoNameNo.5 I tend to read his books with his voice in my head haha. It's so unique that I can't seem to read a book without hearing him mentally.

[@jackbailey7037]

Rose, as usual, interrupting the guest constantly. Why doesn't he just interview himself? Of course Hitchens is flogging his book or he wouldn't be there. But he's 4x smarter than Rose ever was.

[@rodadair7333]

More like 400 times more intelligent.

[@connycontainer9459]

They still have a goood chemistry. Also, Rose seems to bring him down to the level of the average viewer, which isn't a bad thing for a moderator.

[@tetum849]

bad take. rose needs to stay in control of the program and not let hitchens go on too many tangents so the viewer can stay engaged. you’re right hitchens is very very smart, and often tangential.

[@CynthiaArtist]

Never tangential.

[@IndepenisDay]

Rose needs him to stop because he can't keep up

[@MrMeteor1960]

legendary

[@boblozaintherealworld3577]

Loved Hitchens. Always disliked Rose for a slew of reasons. In fact, I can't even watch this.

[@VladSWG]

What you people don't get is that Charlie Rose's constantly interrupting Hitchens, only serves to exemplify his power over the English language. If you pay attention, Hitchens keeps driving his point home, and Charlie knows it. He does not push other guests this way.

[@Franciscasieri]

Can we please dear God (sorry Hitch only a pun) mute Rose whenever he makes a single sound when perhaps the greatest 20th century’s orator is speaking?

[@bernatfernandez9931]

You've got be quite an ignorant to call him that, however great he is

[@philipdw2007]

This is infuriating. Why won't the interview stop talking over him.

[@rodadair7333]

Because he is Charlie Rose-and he was always unbearably, insufferably stupid. It was obvious from the first time anyone ever watched him that he had not only not read the book of the hour, but had never read any book.

[@lynnlobliner3933]

@@rodadair7333 I'm stealing your "unbearably, insufferably stupid" comment about Charlie Rose to use hereafter whenever I click a link and it's an interview (sic - not for spelling, but incorrect word) by him.

[@mcnallyaar]

I wonder, did Hitch see Coogan and Brydon's version of Tristram Shandy?

[@rishabhaniket1952]

Hey, I explain it to me why was he so alarmed at the fact that Jefferson thought Shandy was funny. I too find the book hilarious. What am I missing here?

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

Charlie Rose never seemed to know the exact question he was going to pose --- he trails off alot--- but he knew he wanted to interrupt.

[@thedarkness4052]

Goddamn does Charlie Rose like to hear himself talk.

[@peterleveque2868]

Only 15 comments tells me all. Most people don't understand history an that scares me.

[@peachablemacaw]

Who's being interviewed...Hitchens or Charlie Rose? Charlie talks instead of listens.

[@user-lp7wo7og4x]

The greatest mind of the 21st century so far

[@rudivandereep310]

1 minute inn and the interviewer has blocked the answers ????????

[@stilllife4u]

One time I wish Charley would shut his mouth .

[@losboston]

Thomas Jefferson had contempt for religion, but he defended with zeal the right to practice it. He penned “all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Yet he was a slave owner. The man was a walking contradiction. No one more emblematic of America, messy with the greatest ideals, the greatest genius for their enactment, the greatest falters of those ideals, and just the greatest.

[@thcatt]

Great interview. But who is the "Amos" that Charlie is referring to near the end?

[@shanek1195]

Martin Amis kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnzbdnmnqJ6siMk

[@thcatt]

@@shanek1195 much thanks

[@bethh.9647]

Martin Amis

[@rishabhaniket1952]

If anyone sees this, I have a question that’s eating me up. Why did Hitchens gasp when he said Jefferson thought Tristram Shandy was really funny? Is it because it is supposed to be a satire because I too find the book really funny and read time to time. Am I missing something here?

[@bak4320]

I’m always let down when I click on an interview to find it’s a Charlie rose interview.

[@gilliebrand]

Bad interviewer...let the guest talk..PLEASE!

[@daveg5857]

18:15 It would be the honor of a lifetime.

[@barbaragobus8272]

I miss Hitchins, too, but hard to listen when Rose interrupts and talks over his guest.

[@nigeltilbury276]

Those eyes don't look like they've slept in a number of days! Yet always the clear & rational mind...

[@margaretwebster2516]

Looks I'll in this interview.

[@JeremyHelm]

Folder of time

[@JeremyHelm]

2:02 'Thomas Paine showed the age of reason and the rights of man are the same thing'

[@JeremyHelm]

3:08 no sense of humor

[@JeremyHelm]

4:32 contempt for religion

[@JeremyHelm]

15:50 would rather write about literature and culture because this is a war about civilization

[@peterharris8471]

I keep having this feeling that someone should have given Charlie Rose a mirror and let him get on with it.

[@srothbardt]

Rose is pushing things along within the outlines of a tv interview. He asks specific questions based on keeping the audience up with the main points.

[@diegoisaias5795]

It's both devastating and empowering to hear now how ignorant Hi was about Mexican and further Latin American intellectual anarchists. Indeed the Soviets, the Chinese and the Cubans took all the room there was on his head? His magnanimous head...

[@stilllife4u]

COME ON GHARLEY .I USED TO LIKE YOU FFFFF

[@captur69]

Charlie should interview himself in a mirror..maybe then he'll realise how annoying it is to interrupted at ever possible moment...

[@xavierpaquin]

The Hitch looking _rough_

[@dafyddcoleman4413]

2:25 how embarrassing is that

[@RobVespa]

For those commenting on Rose's interruptions: a) Become familiar with Rose's non-Hitchens interviews b) Be aware of Rose's relationship with Hitchens c) Research what makes a good interviewer and what an interviewer's responsibilities are

[@fozzz-vb5oj]

YES, SIR WHATEVER YOU SAY RIGHT NOW SIR.....

[@stilllife4u]

Shame Charley .

[@dallasmustang11]

Listening to hitch on the Iraq war is a constant reminder to me that even someone so smart, so well read, and so thoughtful can still get something horribly wrong.

[@TheKvltPantShater]

TRUE

[@rightpa]

By what measure?

[@dallasmustang11]

@@rightpa Hitchens maintained until he passed that invading Iraq was justified based on the “weapons of mass destruction intel” even when others at the time began to realize that was a lie. Now we know for an absolute certainty that not only did we lie about that but we killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens, tortured, and helped boost the rise of ISIS. By no measure was our intervention in Iraq a good thing like Hitchens continued to say.

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

What do you mean exactly ?

[@stilllife4u]

I can't watch anymore of this .

[@holybiblelive2201]

This was painful. The interviewer needs to listen not speak over his guest.

[@james8467]

Such an annoying host. Don't miss him at all.

[@MorenoDonato]

I have wanted to slap Charlie Rose. He would not shut up and let his guests finish a thought.

[@stevesettlemier5916]

Charlie is such horrible interviewer. Tries so hard to make it all about him. “Interrupter Horribilus”

[@patrickmcguire7929]

To disagree w/ CH. is atypical (me) but I do & have always not liked Iraq invasion.

[@eddyk2016]

Charlie really irritates me, always interrupting

[@williamharrop2147]

In retrospect, so much of the interview now curious, if not an illustration of liberal (? neocon) interventionism gone amuck -- esp. re. Iraq. More disappointing how little of this interview actually focused on Hitchens book itself, just why Hitchens deemed TJ "author of America...." You'd think THAT would have at least deserved a single question, or even a summary.... so disappointing.

[@unamigo1977]

hitchins arriving to his life review after death "''oh shit"" ha ha ha

[@Spandau-Filet]

Philadelphia a place of reason..? Jesus Christ! Bunch of battery throwers!

[@DaenerysStormborn-cw5ws]

The way Hitchens glosses over Jefferson the fiendishly cruel rapist is really disgusting. He didn't have a "relationship" with her- HE RAPED HER. He tortured the Hemmings family with unspeakable indifference and horribly BLACKMAILED Sally over the custody of their children Jefferson was a mind-boggling hypocrite and I've always wondered if Hitchens admires him partially as way of excusing his own sexism. I admire much about Hitchens but the blind hero worship of him is not deserved.

[@emmettlester739]

yeah that was weird "obviously not a child" 7:10 then it's edited right after that and it skips into a transition into terrible points about American foreign policy and the Iraq and middle east war. Hitchens to me is pretty cool, but these are such terrible points that have stained his career to me. American patriotism and defending it really stunted him badly in these types of conversations to the point that its kind of embarrassing lol i just try to listen to everything else he has to say.

[@missinglinq]

Rose was literally one of the worst interviewers of all time.

[@amtRemember]

I love CH & hang on every word ... but ... that interviewer interrupts way too much ... A good interviewer should be almost invisible because we aren't here to listen to HIM ... what an arrogant creep. Sorry.

[@Samsoncooperman]

if so flawed by bother with it

[@zivaray]

Worst interviewer ever!!!!! Glad he’s been cancelled

[@karlernstbuddenbrock371]

If only he had realised that it was a rich Christian heritage that produced the "founding fathers"

[@karlernstbuddenbrock371]

@@privateaccount8027 scintilla? The woke anti Christian bunch using this word often nowadays. It’s so… hip and happening. But they don’t really know their history. That’s too much like…. Hard work. Rather use words like scintilla

[@SamSung-nf6tr]

Your wrong. The separation of church and state was one thing t they all agreed on. All educated men. Europe was in religious wars for 1800 years. That's why Jamestown was created.

[@elainemarra9790]

Not true read more about the founding fathers

[@karlernstbuddenbrock371]

@@privateaccount8027 Try reading Nietzsche and see what happens when you kill God. The facts speak for themselves. Hold onto your fake gospel and see where it gets you. And your science god. It didn’t do us much good in the 20th century. Carry on talking about the Inquisition (3000 dead) as if it even compares with 50 million dead babies since Roe. And the 100 million under the great secular states of the 20th century. Your secular humanism religion and your pathetic belief in flat earth theories like evolution have only produced pain and confusion. Never forget that Darwin only came up with this fantasy when he looked at the black man, seeing him as an inferior race. If it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious.

[@BLAB-it5un]

Lost in this is that Charlie Rose was a spectacular fraud and egomaniac. He just flat out wouldn't shut up throughout this inept attempt at an interview. He is so obviously out of his league yet stupidity thinks he is not just keeping up but even in some ways outdoing Hitchens.