He said he would like to see Rudy Giuliani run for President in 2008. If only he knew how Rudy would turn out to be a decade later.
@AnkurBorwankar2 жыл бұрын
Glad to find not all his posthumous viewers are right-wing nutjobs. Far too many people also think he would have backed Trump in 2016.
@duaneb212 жыл бұрын
Nobody really saw that one coming lol
@bobobandy9382 Жыл бұрын
And John Edwards too. Imagine thinking of that man having a good character.
@fktygglbtchbtch1384 Жыл бұрын
nothing new, same as his switch on Chomsky
@joecurran28119 ай бұрын
One of the few things Hitch said that did not age well.
@RikerLovesWorf2 жыл бұрын
I’m at the gym lifting 235lbs and listening to an hour long history lesson about Jefferson by the greatest free thinker of our time. Strong body, strong mind, great life.
@Gigan472 жыл бұрын
Me too
@1dissyfit Жыл бұрын
just saying ''im at the gym..'' was not enough? cringe.
@RikerLovesWorf Жыл бұрын
@@1dissyfit lol Saying "cringe" in 2022, to people being genuine, is fucking insanely cringe and you should feel guilty for touching the reply button lmao
@tommym321 Жыл бұрын
I lift as well, I can confirm that saying you are “lifting 235” in this context is pretty dorky. Sorry boss.
@RikerLovesWorf Жыл бұрын
@@tommym321 I care a lot lmao. I guess 2 plates on the chest press machine isn't macho enough for famed internet user TommyM321.
@rabidbigdog Жыл бұрын
The line about conquering Canada is always hilarious.
@hazeshi6779 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me if Fallout 1
@intercommerce Жыл бұрын
What time-mark is that at?
@rabidbigdog Жыл бұрын
@@intercommerce 4:09
@TheScrubDown12 жыл бұрын
Microphones: The only enemy Hitch could not slay
@carlyleredstone96202 жыл бұрын
Difficult when words are one's keenest weapons.
@prestonphelps16492 жыл бұрын
Exactly. He mumbles as well
@stevo29922 жыл бұрын
As a recording engineer in a past life it is a continuous source of frustration for me, it happens so many times that, for awhile I thought there must be some sort of conspiracy against Hitch by some evangelical sound technicians guild. There was one debate with Turek, where his lapel mic seemed to self destruct. I wish I could hop in a time machine and personally oversee each occasion as well as teach him proper mic technique. As it is though, I'm now grateful for any snippet I can find on Hitch.
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
@@stevo2992 The ghost of Abraham Lincoln could not stand this pompous atheists' attitude.. So It was Honest Abes' ghost that kept messing with the 🎤 microphones
@tubbytuba21 Жыл бұрын
@@stevo2992 yes, as a former audio operator, and A/V tech, I am constantly frustrated by things of this nature, such as the people who wave the hand Mike around, expecting, it to pick up their voice. In a perfect world, anyone faced with using a microphone for public address should be required to watch a professional singer, or a standup comic using microphone.
@Bruhntosaur Жыл бұрын
This man needs to be alive today. Impossible? Yes. Needed? Yes.
@planes3333 Жыл бұрын
Christopher hitchens had sex with his students though, so I hope you all know that he is pervert and his was a bugger. I am against people having sex with their students
@johnevans1108 Жыл бұрын
4:56
@TheGregcawthorne Жыл бұрын
One day
@charles.patrickbasson40409 ай бұрын
He is alive everyday We need Thomas, telling all your friends about this incredible honest man love you Thomas Paine, my hero at 73 in south Africa
@halwiseman26258 ай бұрын
Thanks to KZfaq his voice is still widely heard. His eloquent condemnation of abrahamic religions is his legacy for which he has my gratitude.
@tommcfadden52329 ай бұрын
Rudi Giuliani in 2008. Well Hitch gets a pass on this one. I doubt if anyone could have foreseen how unhinged Rudi would become.
@Viky.A.V. Жыл бұрын
We need Christopher Hitchens back. Not even now, a decade ago =( He was so right about so many things. What a brilliant mind.
@AlcibiadesMD11 ай бұрын
Hitch looks like Count Yorga here, dapper and regal. Damn! how I miss this gorgeous bastard, may his mellifluous thought provoking voice resonate to infinity wherever free-thinkers congregate and until the end of human extinction. Tis shot of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 with a tad of Perrier is on Christopher’s behalf…Salud!
@kevinkammueller75532 жыл бұрын
I guess he might have changed his endorsement of Giuliani if he had lived.
@alexanderwilliams39552 жыл бұрын
It's hard to think of another modern politician who has so comprehensively fallen from grace
@bobobandy9382 Жыл бұрын
And Edwards too.
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderwilliams3955 *Joseph ROBBING-IT* *$🇨🇳BuyDumb🇨🇳$* *$🇨🇳$* 🎈 *is 500 times worse than Rudy* You blind *A-hole*
@joecurran28119 ай бұрын
@@alexanderwilliams3955Well Edwards below!
@doctorwoohoo11522 жыл бұрын
Hitch's honesty & his intellectual sophistication, which simultaneously includes all that is relevant & excludes (with disdain) all that isn't relevant, is severely missed. These days we can't seem to be able to discuss anything this way, let alone complex & convoluted issues. The 'intelligentia' these days seem confused about what a woman is or whether primitive & uncivilized blasphemy laws have any place in a civilized society, FFS. His answer to the question at about 36:30 illustrates this perfectly. In stark contrast to the blazing clarity contained within that answer, I'm reminded of the woman who, having escaped torment as a captive & sex-slave under ISIS & having found refuge in Canada, came face to face with her former tormentor & rapist, who too had found 'refuge' in Canada. The level of sheer, brain-dead stupidity that allowed such a thing to happen ought not to be possible, among sane, rational people. The people whose ideology & policies made it possible are just despicably cretinous garbage & deserve the most venomous contempt sane people can muster.
@JP-hq1vp Жыл бұрын
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Policies hitchens supported created ISIS in the first place.
@lordthicknipples66332 жыл бұрын
i like my pound of broccoli with cheese, and I like my youtube with Hitch.
@camerondeans9056 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Hitch would have second thoughts about his choice of Rudy Giuliani to run for president now
@1080lights2 жыл бұрын
Lmao Giuliani and Edwards. In retrospect, those are some very weird choices.
@joecurran28119 ай бұрын
The thing about Hitchens that has aged the worse?
@akadacat Жыл бұрын
Wow, love to see Hitch's view on Gulliani now.
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
Gee ! 👀 I'm wondering what he'd be saying about *TRAITOR JOE'S* BRIBERY ? YOU KNOW ? THE *BIG-GUY* *Joseph ROBBING-IT* *$$🇨🇳BuyDumb🇨🇳$$* *$🇨🇳$* 🎈
@PeterStanton12 жыл бұрын
If Canada (or parts of it) really had been annexed by the U.S. at any time during the 19th century, American political history likely would have turned out much much differently.
@ttacking_you Жыл бұрын
I suspect a lot More hegemonic
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
Canadian bacon 🥓 would be called bigger *AMERICAN BACON* if the annexation had occurred...... Tragedy averted...Wheew !
@Limosethe6 ай бұрын
I find it interesting to see Christopher Hitchens talking here about what people like Thomas Jefferson would have thought if they could see the world in the future and how no one can truly know the answer. Yet, its me who all the time wonders what Christopher Hitchens would say now days, but constantly having to remind myself that there is no way to know, so it is a non-starter question.
@flystix12 жыл бұрын
You're telling me you know something I don't know? Where is your proof of this afterlife? Telling me I'll find out something you yourself have yet to actually experience would make you an extremely silly person. So please, enlighten me to this knowledge you have that I do not.
@charlesheck68122 жыл бұрын
haha. you wouldn’t believe even if you experienced it.
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
@@charlesheck6812 He'll believe whether he wants to or not.... 🔥 *HE'LL* 🔥 👹 🔥 *BELIEVE* 🔥
@andorei31812 жыл бұрын
thats from Collision, and it's the final scene
@tommcfadden52329 ай бұрын
45:38….”This fight will take place on our own soil.” And be waged on the campuses of our colleges and universities.
@milekrizman13 жыл бұрын
In 20:50 he says about Indian languages. USA doesn't have official languages. Every state should have official Indian language, especially Oklahoma, who has the great number of tribes.
@nujac32112 жыл бұрын
@californiarednek I did not hear that part. Thanks for clarifying.
@originalhazelgreene Жыл бұрын
Someday we'll have technology that will digitally remove all the coughing and improve the audibility of the speaker. Oh, wait...
@Boredonthejob12 жыл бұрын
this audio is horrible.
@nujac32112 жыл бұрын
Too much of anything is usually not okay.
@thedoctor.a.s1401 Жыл бұрын
At 30:40 - 31:25 when hitch goes on to talk about how new slaves being unloaded to new Orleans nearly broke Thomas Paine's heart. Just hearing that actually broke mine ...
@juanvasquez65359 ай бұрын
imagine how it must have broken the hearts of the slaves.
@JWY12 жыл бұрын
Not such an accurate take on Edwards. Otherwise more clear, honest, accurate and very compelling Hitchen's opinions.
@MattSingh13 жыл бұрын
His analysis of post-9/11 Said was exact and precise. Same goes for Vidal, Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Norman Finkelstein.
@albachman8 ай бұрын
I wonder what he would say about Hamas waving Mein Kampf around.
@jakeyw1112 жыл бұрын
1:03:00 Ouch, Hitch was fooled by Edwards too...
@leftyshawenuph40262 жыл бұрын
I liked Edwards. Infidelity ruined him. But, like C.H., I also believed, and still believe, that he had more character than most politicians. You can't be a Democrat and cheat on your wife. Republicans (who, ironically, used to claim to be the party of "family values") can, because they have established, and so it it universally understood, that they have zero respect for women. Their nomination and unwavering support of Trump proved that beyond a doubt.
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
A fool ? Not hitch ! 🎶 Everybody plays the fool, sometime 🎶 No exception to the rule,, LISTEN TOO me ! 🎶 It's a fool that says in his heart; *"THERE IS NO GOD"*
@wishuonlyknew59511 жыл бұрын
I would say the Second Coming is Yeats' best. I love the first stanza. But who am I to doubt the Hitch.
@leftyshawenuph40262 жыл бұрын
I see microphones. Are you going to record all of this? "Yes. Well...sort of. How exceptional is your hearing?".
@mns87323 ай бұрын
He bought the land cheap, AA paid dearly. At least we have rock and roll.
@SandyRiverBlue Жыл бұрын
Not just in paleontology but in anatomy as well. A very good source for this time period of pre-Darwinian sciences is John C. Green's "The Death of Adam".
@jakobfunk3970 Жыл бұрын
21:59
@joecurran28119 ай бұрын
Good spot. So many people don't know about this!
@SvalbardSleeperDistrict Жыл бұрын
In a demonstration of the principle of fallibility of even the most impressive individuals, one of the few unfortunate sights with Hitchens is seeing him celebrate Manifest Destiny.
@MattSingh1 Жыл бұрын
*What are you babbling about? At no point did Hitchens even endorse Manifest Destiny, either in this specific lecture or at any other, let alone celebrate it.*
@jakobfunk3970 Жыл бұрын
1:09:15
@DavidPatersonPortraits8 ай бұрын
If there is to be Afican-Americans then there must be English-Americans , Italian-Americans etc. There are ofcourse just Americans and they're all red.
@redryan2000012 жыл бұрын
how about a poison, how about arsonic? is a little bit of that ok?
@vickybennett21632 жыл бұрын
You did a crappy job on the microphone volume that's too bad cuz I wanted to hear this it's too quiet sorry
@greenhornet29912 жыл бұрын
Have any remote Viewers....chased down Christopher on the other side?
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
I heard Cool & tha' gang were trying to connect with *HITCH* on the other side. *ALL THAT THEY COULD SAY ?* WAS ; 🎶 IT'S TOO HOT, TOO HOT LADY, GOTTA RUN FOR SHELTER, GOTTA RUN FOR SHADE 🎶 And sumthin about being *MISS-LED*
@billyb6001 Жыл бұрын
The french revolution died with napoleon
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
In 2023 we have the American moron transgendering revolution trying to be born with the ole trusty *Ding-a-ling Guillotine* treatments for the gender affirmation that the *"elites"* declare necessary....
@redryan2000012 жыл бұрын
i dont understand your view. are you saying religion is ok but just not too much of it?
@zackersquackers12 жыл бұрын
Huh?
@Ostatebuckeye11 Жыл бұрын
Great speech but unfortunately it's unlistenable
@sulIy Жыл бұрын
4:07
@arriuscalpurniuspiso Жыл бұрын
Hitch was way wrong on his idolatry of Thomas Jefferson. A sick, evil man to choose as a hero
@georgeh5075 Жыл бұрын
The pro Giuliani comments were the only things that didn't age well haha
@davidhopeman9622 Жыл бұрын
*Joseph ROBBING-IT* *$🇨🇳BuyDumbs'🇨🇳$* *$🇨🇳$* 🎈 Assortment of corrupt BRIBERY dates back to before Hitchens's death.... 💵 *It does age well* 💵 The *corrupt F.B.I.* AGES WELL TOO ! *You F☆CKING* *M🤤RON* !!!!!!!!! Dates back to before his death *Senator & v.p. Biden* had stolen thousands of classified top secret *U.S.* intelligence documents to use as his personal instruments of information for his treasonous money grubbing.
@jestermoon10 ай бұрын
Take A Moment Relax and Enjoy a genius at play Missed yet never forgotten, godly. Hitch would have a very quick response, on Ev Re Thing. Peace and love etc No god's required or seen in my foxhole for 40 years. RAF veteran of 28yrs. Halloween in Calgary Alberta Untruedaux Land. Christopher? 9:42 42, life the universe and everything. Zeus, thanks 😊 🙏 😂 Anti-god jewish. He goes on to say 11:52 Stay Safe Stay Free 12:24
@lujkarijeka2760 Жыл бұрын
Nemoj vježbt previše,nisam u formi😂
@SleepyPenguin-8og2 ай бұрын
Hey brandon i might go, u have any steroids?
@rouzbehazshab12 жыл бұрын
people cough a lot.
@redryan2000011 жыл бұрын
how was it forced on you, though? by reality? by facts and truth?
@vernedavis5856 Жыл бұрын
awful audio, awful video, great content
@AncientRylanor696 ай бұрын
hyg
@joecurran28119 ай бұрын
1:03:47 Donald Trump
@rouzbehazshab12 жыл бұрын
a lot of coughing in this video.some one give them some medicine!!!
@saintmichael9736 Жыл бұрын
God gave us dominion over this Earth it's not God's fault it's our fault and those that blaspheme God and those that spurn God is your choice and you're choosing your own destiny and the destiny that you're choosing is forever you're fate is forever
@laza6141 Жыл бұрын
God didn't give us dominion over bacteria , viruses and many other lifeforms that control and kill us all the time.
@khomatech6428 Жыл бұрын
whose fault is it that nobody taught you to use punctuation?
@leolyon23737 ай бұрын
Bless his drunken eyes.
@nujac32113 жыл бұрын
Hitchens has interesting viewpoints but I find that he is a little narrow. If he had his way, religion swept off the land but I believe it is an integral part of society for good or bad just like everything else in society. It is zealotry in religion and zealotry in all forms that is the true enemy of society.
@gerritkruger40143 жыл бұрын
Dogma is a better word. But that said, religion the the mother of all dogmatic beliefs. Zealotry only applies if the views portrayed by the instigator are more radical than the teachings he follows, however, both the bible and quran have more radical views than most of its followers.
@chokin782 жыл бұрын
Hitchens never said religion must be swept off... He recognizes it as an "indelible stamp of our lowly origins" and, as such, cannot be removed from our DNA. He only says he's pushing back the theistic encroachment.
@MrMoeqt Жыл бұрын
he on multiple occasions stated that he wouldn't banish religion even if he could, because it puts forth the core and necessary argument about life's deepest questions. And furthermore, is inextricably interleaved with many aspects of culture that are worth preserving. What he argued for was a world where the tyrannny of religion, and the tyranny of man over man that it entails, could be put to an end. That freedom of and from religion would thrive. Quite different to total banishment.
@mns87322 жыл бұрын
Sometimes Hit hens can be a drunken bor. This is one of those times.
@gerritkruger40142 жыл бұрын
I quite enjoyed this one way more than his religious speeches
@Phil_Mitchell2 жыл бұрын
At least he wasn't illiterate like you.
@bazbarrett8103 Жыл бұрын
Idiot coment, I suggest you spend some time in a spelling class instead.
@cjankowski759 ай бұрын
I have no idea what you are talking about here. I've read him and listened to him countless times. He is not drunk here nor under the influence of anything except his excellent intellect.
@sublime87282 жыл бұрын
Jefferson's surprised at the feistiness of womenhood,..... women weren't a subject that aroused curiosity for Jefferson and males. How sexist and misogynistic of Hitchens to frame it that way, but telling of how males truly feel. Women/females were always judged by males and males set the standard of womenhood. Telling.
@artartful854 Жыл бұрын
The only way he could frame it. Remember the times of Jefferson, women were non-persons. They had no legal rights, no vote and were second class citizens but really, if...citizens at all. So sexist and misogynistic was the times. In 1770s and beyond, that's how ALL of society treated women and being judged by males and by their standards was telling...of the times, not Hitchens. In fact, Hitchens has repeatedly called for the political liberation and legal emancipation of women is the most important duty of men, to...save the world.
@rogerthornhill1491 Жыл бұрын
@@artartful854 Well pretty much achieved now.
@artartful854 Жыл бұрын
@@rogerthornhill1491 It's better but obviously, still a ways to go.
@rogerthornhill1491 Жыл бұрын
@@artartful854 Really Art? What’s left now? Certainly legally in (most) western democracies women have more rights than men now? Way more protection under the law than men.
@timthetiny75387 ай бұрын
Not really@@artartful854
@jingojingo1 Жыл бұрын
He is in hell now
@dianahill51168 ай бұрын
Everyone is born atheist. Religion has to be taught. Atheism doesn't have to be taught.