CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON HANNITY COLMES ABOUT REV FALWELLS DEATH
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON HANNITY COLMES ABOUT REV FALWELLS DEATH, Christopher Hitchens along with Ralph Reed participate in a debate on the legacy of the Reverend Jerry Falwell This was recorded from the Hannity and Colmes show of 16 May 2007 More information about Christopher Hitchens from Wikipedia : Christopher Eric Hitchens born April 13 1949 in Portsmouth England is an Anglo American author journalist and literary critic Currently living in Washington D C he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair The Nation Slate and Free Inquiry; additionally he is an occasional contributor to other publications and has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal His brother is British journalist Peter Hitchens Hitchens is known for his iconoclasm anti clericalism atheism antitheism anti fascism and anti monarchism He is also noted for his acerbic wit and his noisy departure from the Anglo American political left He was formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of Britain and America But a series of disagreements beginning in the early 1990s led to his resignation from The Nation shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks He is also known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson and his iconoclastic criticism of Mother Teresa While Hitchens idiosyncratic ideas and positions preclude easy classification he is a vociferous critic of what he describes as fascism with an Islamic face and his critics have been known to describe him as a neoconservative Hitchens however refuses to embrace this designation In 2004 Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Bosnia and Iraq convinced him that he was on the same side as the neo conservatives when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues He has also been known to refer to his association with temporary neocon allies Hitchens no longer considers himself a Trotskyist or a socialist; yet he maintains that his political views have not changed significantly He points out that throughout his career he has been both an atheist and an antitheist and that he has always remained a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism humanism and reason Hitchens has launched a detailed attack on Religion in his book god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything He has also stated that while he was very much in rebellion against the state during his youth he is now much more inclined to stress issues of individual liberty Hitchens became a United States citizen on his fifty eighth birthday April 13 2007 Please let me know if you like the Christopher Hitchens videos Thanks! BerkeleyGuy