Its so strange to be listening to a call in show from 40 years ago largely between dead people. Internet is an incredible thing
@Vingul
9 ай бұрын
I don't know about the callers but Brian Lamb is still alive.
@markbernhardt6281
6 ай бұрын
Easy error to make as Brian Lamb is only 8 years older than Christopher who looks like a child.
@walterpay341
Жыл бұрын
You gotta love when Hitchens' views confuse callers so much that they call him a right-winger
@hazeshi6779
11 ай бұрын
The modern left see him as a right winger. So not much has changed unfortunately.
@thesubhumancomedy
10 ай бұрын
@@hazeshi6779 It has, a lot.
@Fireholder1
9 ай бұрын
It was only ever the callers' own views that confused them, not Christopher's. xD
@Kierphe
8 ай бұрын
No, they don't. Someone can be 95% left wing but have a few positions that conservatives prefer, and someone can be criticized on that basis.
@jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012
Ай бұрын
@@hazeshi6779 Not really. He was very vocal about his support for the war in Iraq, mainly based off Mahdi Obeidi's book, and its questionable content. (Iraq had centrifuges, but could never get the material for WMD's. This is common knowledge, now.) Hitchens personally seeing the aftermath of Saddam gassing Kurdish people within his country, and finding it vile doesn't match his rhetoric for a full-scale US invasion, which always aligned with the neo-conservative agenda of that time. And he happily took paychecks for airtime on right-wing outlets to emphasize this, for years and years. It wasn't some one-off whoopsie. Smart as he was, he really had little understanding of the middle-east. Even if he was vocally a "Trotskyist," endorsing an overseas war based on intentionally falsified information is completely opposite of that belief system. He was a well-read, incredibly well-spoken drunk, not some arbiter of geopolitical truth. Any current criticism of him doesn't ignore what good journalism he did, but naturally his most recent values will be considered first. Nobody really thinks he was right-wing, they just (accurately) identify that he had little understanding of the middle-east, and actively encouraged the US invading Iraq.
@WarThnderMudnen76
4 ай бұрын
Oldest clip I've seen of Hitch. I was only 7 at the time.
@432Restoration
3 ай бұрын
I was -12
@willmpet
10 ай бұрын
Anyone who simplifies the political landscape as “the liberals” and “the conservatives” is missing a great deal of the landscape indeed.
@ferriveiro3101
10 ай бұрын
50:00 oh to be this sarcastic and cool on TV 🤣😍✌️👍
@emptyorchestras
Жыл бұрын
48:24 - 48:34 last night's booze, this morning's news, and this caller's snooze hittin' Hitch hard
@bruceblackerby3742
7 ай бұрын
Watching this on the eve of its 40th anniversary of airing. Interesting to see how much is still relevant in terms of topics discussed. Interesting also to listen to Christopher Hitchens discussing those topics. A man of his own convictions, for sure, and one who seemed to be able to back them up.
@michaelfritts6249
5 ай бұрын
Hitchens handled the callers questions properly.. requesting clarification as needed. Articulate and well prepared. I don't need to agree with a point of view to admire someone who can change change their views over time and can explain why.. My Dad always said "if you're not a bit liberal when young, you have no soul.. if you don't become a bit more conservative as you get older, you have no brains.. " Barry Goldwater and G.Gordon Liddy understood and could articulate their points as well as Bertrand Russell. Sometimes an interviewer wants to "provoke" a subject or redirect a conversation. William F. Buckley, Barbara Walters, Larry King, Oprah.. many others.. When both the interviewer and the interviewed understand the subject, regardless of their point of view, fun to watch when free flowing with small redirects and most important.. respect for the expression of opinions through a genuine Q&A platform. Be Well!! 😃
@carterhalbrooks8091
10 ай бұрын
Hitch is so hungover
@nimbusxd91
7 ай бұрын
Been speaking facts before i was born what a legend rest in peace sir!!!
@willmpet
10 ай бұрын
When I lived in France I read the International Herald Tribune and it seemed much more balanced than American newspapers!
@gammaraygun6576
6 ай бұрын
Oh my god, all the strange and cringey phone calls. I'm cracking up.
@paulfrancis4227
Жыл бұрын
Just lovely moments from Hitch. What a shame that sensible call at the end didn’t get a response, despite Hitchens asking to respond. A rare mistake from an otherwise wonderful host.
@PuckeredMeatball
Жыл бұрын
Brian Lamb is true north for quality interviewing
@BomChickyBowWow
3 жыл бұрын
What is it about C-SPAN that attracts the craziest callers?
@walterpay341
Жыл бұрын
Retirees thar stay home all day glued to the tv....
@inflamespwn
Жыл бұрын
these people are level headed compared to call ins these days...
@musiclifelove
Жыл бұрын
@@inflamespwn This is true, but it's also a little funny how exasperated yet in control most of the hosts are when they hear a "regular" call in (after lying about where they are in the world in order to skirt the phone screeners). These callers always try to fire off their (usually anti-Semitic) question before they get cut off. Truly unhinged people. That's what happens when you wait around grinding your teeth all day until you get through.
@Fireholder1
9 ай бұрын
All these people had were the papers and the television media. There was no Internet, no public forums, the only people with cell phones were the rich and elites, and cameras required film that you had to send in to get developed if you didn't have the knowledge and equipment to do it yourself.
@Mike649foxx
11 жыл бұрын
Shit he looks young here!
@danieltossounian1962
11 ай бұрын
But his voice is the same …
@cameronparfitt624
10 ай бұрын
The baggy eyes tho lol
@carterhalbrooks8091
10 ай бұрын
I'm a year older now than he is here very weird
@Fireholder1
9 ай бұрын
What an amazing thing, that someone should look younger 30 years before his death. xD
@pjsaint835
Жыл бұрын
Do the callers even realize that journalists, especially ones like Hitchens are not only supposed to report the news, but seek the truth objectively, question the powers that be and be contrarians when necessary? They all seem to want him to fall in line with whatever narrative they want to believe.
@seanthomas7327
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately most news outlets have given them exactly what they want.
@marcusdavey9747
Жыл бұрын
Anecdotally, it was common in the 70s and 80s to hear people bemoan reporters who refused to “just stick to the facts”. It seemed to be a sentiment that came more from conservatives…maybe it still is. I don’t think anyone seriously holds facts and opinion to be totally separable anymore, if ever, except in cases of the reporting of immediate dramas, like fires and other violent events. Reporters even a century ago sprinkled cold, hard truth with their own opinions, quite liberally.
@BrucknerMotet
7 ай бұрын
That one caller at 48:24 was actually calling for journalists, even the investigative journalists not to report the news but instead to cheerlead for whatever political class happens to be dominant at any time. Actually telling Hitch that the caller thinks it's a big "problem" that the journalists just report the bad stuff and don't do enough cheerleading about everything that is nice and ok and fine. Like he wants his doctor not to tell him that he has a serious health problem, but instead rattle on about how everything else seems healthy and fine.
@ThatLucasGuy93
7 ай бұрын
It must have been heartbreaking to outlive this kid, years later, after so many meetings in between.
@eamonwright7488
5 ай бұрын
The year of the boar. Such a young Christopher Hitchens. I believe he had a documentary about the Cyprus conflict between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots around this time.
@MarsMellow84
2 ай бұрын
I can't believe this was 40 yrs ago!!!😮
@jasonwiley798
Жыл бұрын
Why do callers pontificate rather than ask questions
@rogerdombroske2399
Ай бұрын
I think they believe they are matching wits.
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
Жыл бұрын
Decades later, Hitch changed his view of America invading another country
@philcawser
Жыл бұрын
For very carefully thought out reasons, he saw the difference in context. Hitchens often explained the UN criteria under which a nation forfeits its sovereignty, thus demanding a universal response to protect others from genocide, invasion and terrorism. Iraq transgressed repeatedly. One could argue forever over other factors involved, and why choose this country when others were transgressing as well. Of course nothing is simply black and white, policing all the world all the time is impossible, and international politics are not as pure as the driven snow. But there was nothing hypocritical about the stance Hitchens took on Saddam Hussein. Though one may disagree with it.
@LtGregoryStevens
10 ай бұрын
@philcawser Too much propaganda regarding Iraq. Everyone and their mother complains about about it and they will until the end of time. Saddam deserved it, iraq deserved it.
@tomdb2
10 ай бұрын
I'd be interested in what those defending the Iraq invasion think of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; maybe you'all are OK with that, too?
@bonegrubber
9 ай бұрын
I changed my mind once or twice
@marcusdavey9747
8 ай бұрын
Just a few years later, the Cold War ended, without a single death, no nukes exploding, with the dissolution of the USSR. All this happened in spite of, perhaps partly because of, Reagan’s saber rattling. That was a momentous event that changed many minds about a lot of things.
@sebastian3217
7 ай бұрын
Isn't it crazy that Brian Lamb is only 8 years older than Christopher. He looks so much older!
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
Жыл бұрын
One of his best performances. Hitch the Great
@janlappalainen
11 ай бұрын
In another KZitem video of Hitchens on Cspan, around the same period in history, had many commenters applauding how enlighetend the callers to the show where, I guess this episode would be showcasing the opposite of that.
@youtubeuser-7098
2 жыл бұрын
49:00
@skoto8219
2 жыл бұрын
thank you! exactly what i was looking for
@Mynameisntme
3 ай бұрын
That was hot ngl!
@MattSingh1
10 жыл бұрын
Well, I didn't ask for it, and don't necessarily need it, but thanks for your endorsement all the same.
@Ostatebuckeye11
Жыл бұрын
"Nigeragalo", what country is that?
@seanthomas7327
Жыл бұрын
He probably meant Nicaragua.
@cerdic6305
8 ай бұрын
This is what I hear in my head whenever Nicaragua comes up now
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
2 ай бұрын
Maralago
@blasalvice
8 ай бұрын
At the very start of the video, the screen reads "Christopher Hitchins" :o haha
@ComedyJakob
7 ай бұрын
Christopher looks like a young boy and Brian looks like a young old man.
@TheKlink
9 жыл бұрын
don't spose he ever answered that last caller?
@seanthomas7327
2 жыл бұрын
The question @57:00 ? I think his answer @29:00 covers it don't you?
@ChelseaHicSalta
Жыл бұрын
nope, they didnt let him
@birdman4274
7 ай бұрын
Hitch could get you off a murder charge if he was a barrister
@kdott9476
Жыл бұрын
Ironic that Hitchens named the method U.S. hegemonic policy relies on, decades before the term was coined: military lawfare.
@davidfoster5906
2 ай бұрын
This is a time capsule that demonstrates Americans hostility to a free press and how we became supporters of Israel with no regard to the existence of Palestine. .
@rt16
20 күн бұрын
14:06 - 14:23 Andropov died of kidney failure months later, FYI.
@wyattrussell7496
Жыл бұрын
38:36 I wonder who that is…
@cz2165
Жыл бұрын
I knew a med student who was in Grenada then who said absolutely they were in danger and were relieved when the US military showed up. Normally I agree with Hitch but not sure this time.
@pjsaint835
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think he said they were in zero danger i think he said at that time they didn’t know what was propaganda and what was true because the event had just happened, so he wasn’t sure if the students were in danger. But i agree with you, in hindsight the military intervention definitely saved the students.
@ethan_udovich
Жыл бұрын
Yes and Hitch’s argument was that an intervention would have been justified in the case of the endangerment of the students’ lives, but that this would not have justified the total overthrow of the country’s government. He supported protecting students, but did not support the USA dictating Grenada’s government at gun point.
@MattSingh1
10 жыл бұрын
Likely because HE IS young here...
@jasonwiley798
Жыл бұрын
He didn't age well
@jasonwiley798
Жыл бұрын
@@amandalorian105 Paul Newman
@francieleone
10 ай бұрын
What was his answer to the Egyptian?? Wtf? They censored about this shit even then??????
@Fireholder1
9 ай бұрын
It was an hour long show, and this record of it is over one minute over. They simply ran out of time. It was not censorship, and I love the irony that you completely missed Christopher's response to this accusation in this very episode. LMFAO
@MattSingh1
10 жыл бұрын
This impotent retort is easily dismissed, with a certain amount of insouciance, under the rubric of ad-hominem attack. Also, you flatter yourself by rendering under the notion of believing I require your endorsement, approval, sanction or commission, which I obviously do not, mainly due to the fact I wouldn't benefit from such a thing. Your opinion hitherto and furthermore is thus floccinaucinihilipilification, and held in regard by you, and you alone.
@jaishu123
5 жыл бұрын
floppi what?
@AJkunVM
Жыл бұрын
agreed
@mrgolftennisviolin
Жыл бұрын
Any chance you’d still be active and able to reply? Because if so, my only question is, dafuq u talkin bout fam?!?!?
@Fireholder1
9 ай бұрын
@@mrgolftennisviolin Such people are, quite ironically, called 'sesquipedalians'. It's when people use language mostly containing very long, multi-syllabic and especially archaic (that means old) words to present themselves as more intelligent than they are. Lawyers (where the language is known as 'legalese'), self-described 'philosophers', and American protestant religious clergy are among the most common offenders (these like to call themselves 'reverend'). In more recent years, this behavior has also been frequently seen among sovereign citizens attempting to use 'legalese' in their dealings with law enforcement. And then there are some people who just like to hear themselves talk in between heavy doses of their own flatulence.
@CommissionerSleer
8 ай бұрын
@@Fireholder1 And, predictably, it doesn't make sense: "Your opinion hitherto and furthermore is thus floccinaucinihilipilification" @MattSingh1 wants that to mean "your opinion is worthless" but floccinaucinihilipilification means the act of evaluating something as worthless. So what he said means "your opinion is evaluating things as worthless", which doesn't follow ("thus") from what he said previously. Using big words (sesquipedalian) without understanding them. There should be a word for that too. I only know of phrases such as pretentious pseudointellectual. Unless, as I suspect, they were just joking... :)
@paulgemme6056
Жыл бұрын
Jesus is the King of Glory. So sad that Hitchens didn't know that.
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
Жыл бұрын
He saw through the lies of Christianity
@huwpickering3685
Жыл бұрын
Grown child
@paulgemme6056
Жыл бұрын
@@huwpickering3685 Hitchens was that man who was walking towards the edge of the cliff while all those who were following him didn't realize he was blind (spiritually blind). So sad!
@huwpickering3685
Жыл бұрын
@@paulgemme6056 prove it
@paulgemme6056
Жыл бұрын
@@huwpickering3685 God/Jesus Christ says his existence is evident in nature (all creation). Man has no excuse to not believe in our almighty Creator God/Christ Jesus. Only a fool says in his heart there is no God. Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
@samsca8529
10 ай бұрын
He never got to answer that last caller
@carterhalbrooks8091
10 ай бұрын
It's unfair I agree that caller was the most morally informed and critically aware
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