Christopher Hitchens on Noam Chomsky (1995)
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- Christopher Hitchens discusses Noam Chomsky's legacy and his respect for Chomsky's work.
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I love his books supporting things like war. There was a good one on Iraq. What nobility of spirit and intellect that took.
People like Hitchens remind me of the empty ambitious ‘intellectual’ Ratikin in Brothers Karamazov, crawling their way upwards and without spiritual truth. There is nothing confusing about the apparent ideological shifts of people like Hitchens from criticism of the power elites to one of their obedient scribes. There is no core of truth which they are abandoning. It’s simply the twists and turns of their self-serving pathway through life. They essentially have their cosy place within the world of the political structure all along, whether apparently criticising or praising, at ease dwelling in that godawful pit of bullshit.
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Great read, I would add Thomas Payne and Letter to a Young Contrarian.
@@stalkek pff, I take Hitchens unpalatable stance on Irak at any given day as he was so much more than that
Odd how something in 1995 can have better sound quality than most recorded public events like this today...
Led Zeppelin?
Why would that be odd? Have you compared a landline's quality to a cell phone? How about real film resolution vs digital? etc etc
It's just strange to me that so many recent debates and interviews that I've watched have horrendous audio. I get what you mean though, and it's easy for me to forget that the 90's weren't the dark ages considering I was born at the very tail-end of them. :)
also hitchens voice is so deep it sounds so good.
This was set up by professionals for TV. You're probably watching debates set up by people with less experience or worse equipment.
I am a theist, but there are few public intellectuals of the last century I respect more than Hitch. Truly an absolute giant, and I miss him very dearly.
Misread what you said but agree
You'll never know how much you've helped people refine their clarity.
Thanks Hitch.
Clarity is an illusion. Outside of a few scientifically provable facts, life is a big pile of stupid subjective crap that everyone fights over.
@@sabbracadabra8367 It's hilarious that you go to 'scientifically provable facts' as your gold standard for indisputable truths
@@nanashi7779 I doubt you laughed and nobody else will. You self upvoting loser fuck.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, Comrades and Friends..." I always like it when Hitch says that.
bit cringe, it was him clinging to his Marxist youth....never understood why he was so rational about religion but irrational about the practicality of Marxism.
@@freedomordeath89 He's had a constantly evolving opinion on economics, don't be so obtuse.
@@sdprz7893 He's 80 and he still doesnt understand fuck all about economics...
I was a "marxist" too when I was 15, then I actually read economics books and I understood how impractical and objectively impossible communism is.
This dude has been pumping this pipe-dream of communism, anarchism or some other retarded edgy version of it for 80 years...failure after failure...and instead of looking at things rationally he keeps coming up with excuses and shifting the goalposts to avoid admitting that marxism, full socialism, communism or how the fuck u want to call it will NEVER work in real life.
Grow up
@@freedomordeath89 He's dead you schmuck and died quite a long time ago
@@sdprz7893 I was talking about CHomsky you dumb fuck
He is at his most charming here, natural, spontaneous and fun.
Yes nothing like milking people of their money, it comes naturally and spontaneously to the socialist
@@joanna.e No you
Brings tears to my eyes seeing those two men embrace each other (Hitchens and Chomsky). They would later part ways ideologically in the wake of 9-11 and US interventionism in the Middle East.
can you expand on this please
Hitchens was a leftist until he realized he benefited from imperialism.
@@jahermos I disagree. I do not see how he benefited from war in Afghanistan/Iraq, and his reason for his support are well documented (he discussed it on many occasions). Although, he was indeed inflicted by a terrible case of American exceptionalism post-9/11 and believed the U.S. was capable of successfully installing liberalism and secular democracy in the middle east.
Additionally, leftism is an economic ideology while his statements about the middle east were political, so I disagree that there is a correlation between the two.
@@andrewbellas138 True about leftism being different from political/cultural imperialism. And I may be wrong about his motives---I haven't studied him that closely. But when I say he benefited from imperialism, I'm not saying he personally profited from the war in Afghanistan/Iraq; I'm saying that 9/11 seems to have sharpened his sense that the US/Europe/Global North societies are superior, impairing his reasoning in a way that places his world above others.
@@jahermos I don't think that's a fair assessment. He thought that secular societies were superior to religious ones. It just happens that most of them are in Europe. He for example admired Ataturk for trying to create a secular society in Turkey and he thought that during the middle ages The Islamic world was the most advanced one but it recessed because religious leaders started to impede the academics. He also didn't support US action in Latin America nor the Vietnam war.
I didn't see this one until now. Thank you very much for uploading this.
A blazing star who lit up this earth with his wit. Never cowed or brainwashed by either left or right. A man of his own mind. We miss you Chris.
Are hitchen's fans really this stupid?
Yes.
HITCH. C'mon man!
... topher
I had to look up Philip Agee...and boy did I find a score of works to delve into. He is even on the IMDB w documentaries to pursue. Love and miss, Christopher RIP
Man this man is one of a kind. Sure hope a few of the youth have half the courage, whit and charm of this person. We need many many more like Hitch and Noam❤️❤️🎉🎉🍻🍻
Hitch unfortunately switch boats
Hitch asking for money felt like the weirdest NPR fundraiser of all time
I hate cancer . I miss him, but didn't know him directly. But I loved that man, or rather loved his views.
I always feel like I need to be careful listening to Hitchens. He was a strong, persuasive talker who usually had more relevant facts in his head than almost any of his interlocutors, but he was also at times a shameless intellectual bully, condemning his opponents without a fair trial. The fact that he himself changed his positions later in life shows that his successful and entertaining tactics could work in the service of various goals, not all of which were necessarily laudable.
What changes did he make in his life? Do you mean his position on Iraq? If so, that wasn't a change at all, even in this video Hitchens says you should side with the victim, he thought the iraqi people were the victims of Saddam. He thought the execution of the war was terrible but at no time would he deny that it would be a good thing for Saddam to go down. Watch the hitchens video where he describes Saddams take over, very harrowing.
David Carpenter well said
Chonsky , the great? Paused to see the video there.
wow so one is not able to change one's mind in the light of new information. your opinion is an uneducated load of bollocks
'The fact that he himself changed his positions later in life shows that his successful and entertaining tactics could work in the service of various goals, not all of which were necessarily laudable'. Are you serious, sir? This needs some clarification.
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Love watching this in 2022 and reflecting how accurate it is today. I've let the WaPo subscription go, am about to do so with the NY TImes.
God its ironic how much the world could use really use Hitchens intellect around nowadays.
Every time I (binge) watch Christopher Hitchens, or read him, (I cant do Ebook Hitch- not his voice . This man was an orator right there with Richard Harris. Elocution of a Peter O Toole or... name your Shakespearean actor)
I come away blown away. Smarter. Inspired. Laughing days later from his wit. Angry at humans. Happy with humans. Hopeless about humankind Hopeful about humankind.
My mind mulling his points , putting some in my quotes page.
Then?
Sad....
This country could use a big dose of Hitch right now.
Christopher Hitchens ,
Thank you.
Almost wish he read and recorded any given famous soliloquy.
24 years ago..... wow.... R.I.P Hitchens ❤ we will remember you!!!
Yes, will always remember the pre 2001 Hitch. Let's try to forget him post 2001.
@@yaserthe1 I would suggest you watch his interview with Jon Stewart if you'd like to hear two people discussing different views of the Iraq war while both demonstrating both a firm understanding and yet they're both right. I sided with Stewart more, but Hitchens has never argued badly.
Was there ever a better informed , entertainer and public speaker ? I could listen to him for hours, indeed I have since I first became aware of him. What a huge loss his early death has proved to be.
Shame he became a grifter for imperialism and a cheerleader for the death of a million people in Iraq
Yes Malcolm X was very articulate, flamboyant and eloquent.
@@capitalistholocaust3128 I always felt Hitchens was a intellect of the state and not the people.
@@OpiChaggar In his early (more Chomskyan) days, Hitchens was amazing. Have you seen his talks on c-span in the 80s? He was very anti-imperialist then.
Yes. Noam Chomsky, minus the jokes.
I love Hitchens videos. They always bring out the smartest & dumbest commentors. Either way I learn something!
This incarnation of Hitchens as Chomsky's bulldog was the best.
Legendary combination tbh. Hitchens has got just the right competencies to cover for Chomsky’s weaknesses.
He had such charisma.
It’s insane. He was charismatic and attractive to both men and women.
I miss him sooo much
Top bloke sorely missed.💙🙌
The WaPo bit is.evee so relevant in 2021. Could've been recorded yesterday.
He would never have known back then that he would gain immortality.. RIP great man
RIP indeed. I don't think he was meant to live in these wretched times. He would have loathed it.
@@alec0062 i disagree tbh i think he would revel in it. His insights and outreach would help a lot with more people turning to him for a rational voice
@@socialminds9894 the human wit and mood can only tolerate so much.
Russel Crowe needs to play this man in a biopic
That would be good casting .
After he loses 150 pounds.
@Michael Penis
He was a woke, lefty socialist. Why wouldn’t they want him?
Great mind. Crap politics.
He would have to lose weight. Russell
@@whatwhat678 too smart for woke.
Such a beautiful opening donation speech.
This is the Hitchens I miss.
Hitchens the war-monger perhaps?
Robin Jackson It's truly amazing to watch this and then remember just how very badly he fucked up his stance on Iraq. It makes me think that the whole time he had no values what so ever and was more interested in being a socialite and member of whichever groups he found most expedient at the time.
Hitchens was never a war monger. Twats like Chomsky just as a principle will always think America was wrong. Hitchens had real principle.
If i can bring people from the dead he would be first.
This is the uncorrupted Hitchens . He took the payoff later in life and chose to feed the machine. Chomsky stuck to his convictions.
In many ways, the Hitchens of the 80' and 90's would not recognize the Hitchens of the 2000's
Would you recognize yourself from 20 years ago? Probably not if you even existed.
Chris Rubbish. Hitchens was always on the side of the victims against the victimisers.
And the victimisers were the theocratic nutbags of Islam and the religious right in America.
@@terrypussypowerI think he was talking about how Hitchens went from Marxism to Neoconservatism.
@@brianjones9487 Go far enough left and you start coming around the right. I've gone back and forth a couple of times myself...not as far as "Marxist" or "neocon", but certainly some back and forth. And as problems change, the best system to navigate those changes as well. Marxism isn't the absolute best answer for everything. Sometimes Neoconservatism is better, and vice versa. Hitch changed in 2001 and we all know why.
Off topic, but I remember Carlin's special right *after* (not the famous September 10th one) 9-11. "Pacifism is a fine idea, but it can get you killed." Carlin...
In what way?
Intelligent and highly informed deliberation. Thanks for sharing.
Rest in Peace Hitch. You had a moral courage that few possess.
Millions tell us every day that there is no God. Hitch is telling God that----Right Now !
@@johnsheedy461 For the record, my husband is using my account to comment.
He didn't have the stones to admit when he was wrong, as he was about Saddam, WMDs, and the whole Iraq mess. Revising your opinions in light of new facts or developments is the mark of a real intellectual, and "Hitch" fell badly short.
@@gigabix Thank you for telling me. I will pass your comments on to my husband who is using my account to post here. Drives me nuts. Thanks again.
@@gigabix he admitted he was wrong about Saddam in 1991 and switched his position in the early 2000s and supported Bush and the invasion of Iraq. So doesn't that mean he had the stones to admit when he was wrong? You can't claim that he wasn't courageous just because he didn't agree with your position. He supported a conservative administration as a liberal thinker in regards to Iraq - that suggests the opposite of what you are insinuating.
I love Chomsky & Hitch. In fact, I like all '70's American cop shows. 😳
David Carpenter, I agree with your perspective on Christopher Hitchens. You put it well when you say that Christopher turned himself from a strong and persuasive talker into an intellectual bully. And then, in terms of his "change in ideology" later in his life, Christopher realized that "his successful and entertaining tactics could work in the service of various goals." That was the ideological tragedy of Christopher.
Haha man, I feel sorry for the sign language translator lady. She would've been absolutely fried after this
I miss this Christopher Hitchens
Hitch, my favourite intellectual
Dr.derp Intellectual for sure, but sadly lacked wisdom the highest form of intelligence.
Hitch waz great but misguided on the Iraq war.sadam did not have weapons of mass destruction. .Galloway had him on that debate..but I miss the ol boy to be sure. No one's perfect. He really went after that slime bag kiss my ass
Pavel Usa saddam used WMDs on the Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis.
He refused to allowed inspectors in to verify that the program was ended.
You say there were no WMDs as if you were saying that in 2003. You couldn’t possibly know that. Also google what was discovered in the garden of Dr Mahdi Obedi.
He wasn’t misguided, but I’ll wager you’re misinformed.
We still have Noam we must always respect & treasure him as we’ve lost Hitch
Just learned that Christopher too had a Jewish background just like Noam.
So true Ellie!
Most Hitchens fans today hate Noam and consider the Bell Curve undeniable fact.
@@kogikashakunin4683 It always amuses me how people cherry pick Hitchens. This was recorded in 1995. Within 10 years Hitch would be critical of Chomsky.
We lost Chomsky long ago to mad cow disease.
If we stopped paying for the daily papers they would deliver them for free .
I remember Covert Action Quarterly! Wow passing the money bag around like....like a Church? 🤔
I love Hitch, but I don't know what happened at the end. I'd like to see the corresponding talk of Noam's.
I love Christopher Hitchens pre-2001. This is awesome :)
I love him both before and after 2001.
What happened after 2001?
Not only the Iraq war. He spent a lot of his mental capacities on silly atheist triades.
god is not great is his greatest thingamabook
@@aaronrajasaari8424 after 9/11 Hitchens became an angry spiteful anti Muslim neocon
Your video is really helpful. Can I repost it on another platform please?
Would have loved to have a beer with this dude.
He looks like Russell Crowe playing Richie Roberts in American Gangster.
Xavier Abyss Russel Crowe played him in one movie
LMFAO that is so accurate!!!!!!!!!!
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We need to honour hitch & make a stand
Stand for GOD, right?
I loved this man and miss his voice. I couldn't disagree more with most of his views here but but he makes his arguments with the most delightful language, charm, and humor.
Even if, like you, I broadly disagree with him, he's the sort of opponent one is lucky to have. One really couldn't help but interrogate one's own views listening to Hitch.
thanks mate
Is it fair to say there was a pre-911 Hitchens and a post-911 Hitchens?
I wish Hitchens had remembered more of that in the 00s.
He never forgot any of it, false consciousness is an insidious accusation.
@D Stuart What do you mean by "Iraq was not the victim"? What do you mean when you say 'Iraq'? Because innocent civillians lived there who died during the war, you know.
@@boringname3657 really. Which Iraqi citizens died in the 2003 invasion?
@@jakethewoz Those that weren't soldierds, by definition.
@@phillycheesetake He made tons of embarrassing mistakes in his defense of the war and his criticism of the left. Not surprising given how much he would drink in a day
I wonder if there's a close temporal correlation between the end of the Christopher Hitchens defending David Irvings right to speak publically and the start of the Christopher Hitchens supporting the coalition of the willing...
But he never DID stop defending Irving's right to speak publicly. And correctly so.
No matter how vehemently I may have disagreed with professor Hitchens on certain issues, I had tremendous respect for his sharp/quick wit and his preparedness for speeches/debates. I'm glad he visited our school (UDC grad 94'). He always made me critically think about, and reconsider some of my views!🤔 If you got into a debate with him and weren't prepared📚📰📑, DO be prepared to be embarrassed!😆👉🏼😳
It’s odd how Hitchens went on to give the Bush administration a lot of support for his unprovoked war of aggression in Iraq.
Right? Seems his ego reveled in playing the contrarian. I wonder if he'd apologize? if for not being dead
No it isn't. Saddam invaded Kuwait and his ultimate goal was to be the supreme leader of the middle east. Saddam and his military was pushed back to Iraq by allied forces. The UN put sanctions on Saddam and he violated those sanctions throughout the 1990's. President Clinton repeatedly stated Saddam was a threat and violated UN sanctions. Saddam refused to allow UN inspectors into Iraq multiple times. When 9-11 occured president Bush decided to eliminate the islamic threat to the US. Saddam was part of that threat. I fault Bush for not having a better plan to replace the power structure in Iraq when Saddam was removed. Hitchens has repeatedly made the point that Saddam and Al Qaeda were linked. One could argue the point but the fact remains Saddam was a major threat not only to the US, Europe but also to the middle east. I applaud Hitchens for having the intellectual honestly acknowledging the facts about Saddam. I also believe Bill Clinton would have also taken out Saddam had 9-11 happened in 1999, or 2000.
@@no40acresandamuleforyou.47 saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 and was not a threat to the US.
@@spectralfire4842 , that's debatable. we don't know what bill Clinton and George bush knew. What is fact is had Saddam allowed UN inspectors into Iraq in the 1990's early 2000's there would have been no war against Saddam on 2003. www.politico.com/story/2016/12/clinton-orders-airstrike-on-iraq-dec-16-1998-232571
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I think that that may have been the most suave request for donations I've ever heard!
At around 2:45 the camera cuts from Christopher to the bucket collection and at first sight of the shapeless pink and green thing to the right I thought that the collection was being carried out by some luridly coloured mascot.
Wholesome
Strange how he went from against US foreign intervention to being fanatical about it by the end of his life..
Smart Honest Confident people are not ashamed to change their mind as they grow in knowledge, wisdom, and analytcal ability. The best refuse to be secretive about it or try to "pivot" or play it off like it's actually consistent with their former views. Churchill did not say: "If you aren't a liberal before the age of thirty, you have no heart; if you aren't a conservative after the age of thirty, you have no brains.
In a previous comment Hitchens was described as "intellectual bully" passionate,fearless, and much more,,the most accurate however was this: he was a "ENTERTAINER. spot on observation. Hitchens changed his stance so often,,he was a sheet blowing in the wind,intellegent,,absolutely. Loved a camera and microphone that for sure.
It's simplsimple,,, be a bit controversial,a bit of intelligence doesn't hurt,the accent helped him,silly I know but it helped. Shit just being a white guy helped him tremendously.,,,
Malcolm X and Martin Luther king Jr were equal to him and their ideas and stances far more complex and engaging,,,,,,,they were literally attempting to change the world,,,,,,,,oh and they were gunned down for raising their voice
“How much would you give to see Barbara Bush in the dark” Never laughed harder in my life.
I think he said 'dock' as in an accused in court, not dark.
@@jmb4969 Even funnier!
There's a clip of Gore Vidal joking about Chomsky grinding his teeth elsewhere on UA-cam...
A clever, articulate man who had searing insight to society. It matters not a jot. The Great-unwashed ultimately determine what happens......and there are fkn Billions of them.
I would have loved to have seen Hitchens and Bertrand Russell on the same stage.
How lucky to wait to see Noam Chomsky by listening to Christopher Hitchens. I hope the audience realized how fabulous an evening they were having.
With all immense due to Noam his speechifying isn't exactly the glint and spark of Hitchens here. You have to bolster yourself, It can be hard work listening to the professor.
They should have recruited him to do PBS marathons.
Happy birthday!
If I am ever called before a tribunal to decide if I shall be permitted to go to heaven, I want an advocate as eloquent as Hitchens to stand up for me. (even though I, too, am atheist). I've never heard Hitch so gushingly praiseful of anyone before. Noam is incredibly fortunate to be so loudly and beautifully defended by Hitchens. I am jealous.
There is an eye-opening amount of information about Mother Tereasa on the web . Much of it is not very flattering . She would deny aspirin to dying people insisting that suffering is good for the soul . Well I know that suffering is not good for anything !
such charming eloquence of speech
***Go to your local bookshop, library OR online used book shop and buy books from there! Let's not have any ads for Amazon on this video for FUX sake!
You could always count on Hitch to point the finger in the right direction. I was especially pleased when he was willing to point the finger left when it was deserved. The world is just a bit less knowable without him watching out for us.
I agree.
Hitch filibustering for donations.
If only he were here for these troubling times. 😥
most eloquent speaker I ve seen. rhetorics, intonation, pitch. this is educational on so many levels not just content-wise
Hitch was spot on about the absurdity of religion and dead wrong about our wars in the middle east.
And i don't know why these fake Leftist conflate all his idea.
I must watch Christopher Hitchens or read something by him almost every day. What a guy.✨✨
Who is someone of his intellect and curiosity informing the public today? Who is teaching or writing today? I’m lost & need the calming knowing voice of Hitch.
I'll just quickly jump in the comments to appreciate the style of his clothing in this one. That jacket is on point.
passing the bucket around? gee, sounds like a sunday service to me.
This guy was way ahead of his time
08:34 Does anyone know what the “Aims Fiasco” is that H is referring to? I looked it up and couldn’t find anything
I thought I'd never listen to this man again. But he is introducing Noam. So one more time i guess.
Hitch was a man who always tried to stand with the truth. But he was a human after all. people should listen to his opinion about Chomsky post 911. My opinion is that Hitch got disillusioned by Chomsky in the later years of his life.
Chomsky did peddle a lot of bogus information when in come to the USA involvement in Latin America, once you look more into the primary source of the claim you will understand that choamsky was stretching the truth, that why Hitchens said about choamsky that he never graduated from saying half-truths.
Robert Does Wrestling Reviews mmh i am not so sure; i think Chomsky does a lot of work before he says something. Take Bolivia for example. Bolivia was a coup by a right wing extremist Christian minority against a left wing president. Morales was in deed elected by the majority, you can google the election statistics. Any word in the American press or a condemnation by Trump? Nothing! That alone gives me a huge suspicion that the American government (and most of the other Western governments) doesn’t, at least, really care about democracy in the world community. But it’s good for car makers (most of them Western companies...) who can now access the lithium in Bolivia, which Morales didn‘t want to be mined... what else can you think of all that?
No wonder many people believe in conspiracy theories..
And back to the topic: Chomsky condemns it; and there is almost no mention of it in Western newspapers..
@@charlesbourgoigne2130 Like all that work he did before forcefully doubting the Cambodian genocide?
Christopher Hitchens...a man for all seasons.
Miss you Hitch
"Oh my God!"
"Higgins! I can explain!"
I can actually hear Hitchens in this vid! Usually it's a mumbling, inaudible mess. (I'm a fan btw)
Joking about who wants to see "any Bush in the dock." Wow, where did that Hitch go?
Does anyone remember when passengers applauded the pilot and passed around a hat in appreciation for a successful landing?
Still exists on charter flights.
I love you Christopher!
Christopher's voice sounds reminiscent of Alan Rickman's
This Guy both great guys, terribly missed.
Oh the irony Hitchens being anti-war then
Keith Parker He wasn’t anti-war, he never was! He always believed in the just war.
No. He was anti THAT war. Do yourself a favor and buy some new ears. ....ones that don't only hear in black and white....
He grew up !
@@jackcaven9614 , no. There are different qualities in same things.
@Jazzkeyboardist1 you're comparing him being bi to people having affairs??? What's wrong and hypocritical about being bi
People change.
Has to be a grass roots effort
give me another 10 chris hitchens right now please..
Or anyone smarter than Trump.
He was great on a great many number of issues, no doubt about that. But at the same time, he with fever, advocated for the Iraq War. We could have free public college and Medicare for all for the cost of these dumb, neocon/neolib disasters we constantly do overseas. But I guess the military industrial complex or the irrational behavior following 9/11 got to him. We've spent trillions on that needless war. Imagine the good it could've done for Americans.
you don't sound like an intellect. Man up? thats for silly bro's like you.
What about Douglas Murry? Not as good but up there.
We still would have no better healthcare, schools, roads, etc., if we didn't do Iraq or Afghanistan, we would just have a smaller debt.
if only every human being was the same as this one what a world it would be !
I like Hitch, but no it wouldn't. A nation run by farmers, secretaries and auto mechanics would be much more civilized and prosperous.
CAQ Library @ 9:24 ish. what is that?
He was no thinker, he was a show man
Almost nothing is black and white. This comment section is filled with disappointingly not subtle and precise opinions.
Thank you ! I was scrolling hoping to read some nuance in the comments. Most of the comments are "binary".. :'( :'(
I think a lot IS black and white, its a shame people muddy the waters.
Who are you talking about be specific? Embarrassing to see gibberish comments, rightwingers are only capable of lying and smearing you live in a fantasy world.
Your comment is meaningless without being specific :)
@@BillNepill OPs comment is meaningless, no examples just gibberish.
You can set aside these pros 'n' cons of Hitchens, I love him for calling out the Clintons in the late 1990's.
One of the issues I disagree with him on. Republicans investigated the Clintons for over 30 years, at over $100 million tax payer expense, without a single criminal indictment. Republicans then impeach a Democrat president for a marital infidelity, but shrug when it's revealed that a Republican president had advance knowledge of stolen DNC emails and then obstructed any investigation into it.
@BadAim The law clearly indicates intent - which is why Comey did not prosecute. Most ordinary people wouldn't have such a hostile opposition party investigating their every move. Republicans found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing after 30 years of investigations. None. Zero.
"Democrats legislate, Republicans investigate." - LBJ
I admire that he criticized anyone he thought was acting unjustly. He's not just the atheist guy.
@@jasonnesmith6518 - That's not quite true. They impeached Clinton for lying in court, and that's perjury, which is
a crime even for Presidents.
Nowadays, they might call his relationship with his employee, illegal. Actually, I read that it's illegal due to a law
that Clinton signed, but I just heard that and didn't investigate it. Some might call Clinton a sexual predator for
his relationship with Monica.
How do you know, "...a Republican president had advance knowledge of stolen DNC emails and then obstructed any investigation into it." ? I don't know of the crime you are talking about. Stealing emails...not certain what that means.
Do you mean somebody got hacked? We can be certain that you aren't talking about the emails that Hillary erased illegally, some of whom contained classified information, and never had to answer for.
@@jasonnesmith6518 - The Democrats spent most of 4 years investigating Trump. You might consider that LBJ was partisan in favor of the Democrats. Also, he might not be the most honest person to believe in, for example, his Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
"Anyone not had the bag under their nose yet?"
BOTH ARE AGENTS. ACTORS.
Maybe my perception or attention-span was too poor, but I hardly saw much talk about Noam here at all. Am I crazy?
The middle bit.