Hitchens bypassing the customary "thank you for having me here" and going right to the offensive just makes me smile. This man cared only for the truth.
Blair is a smooth talking snake oil fanatic. His tactic is to pick one positive aspect of his position and drum it home repeatedly. Notice he actually sidesteps the debate by ignoring Hitchens points and merely repeating his own mantra. That’s what he always did as a politician. It makes him seem like a calm, decent, benign individual when he’s really quite a nasty piece of work.
Watching in 2025: these 2 men offered intelligent thought and intellectual debate that was both easy on the ear and pleasing to the mind. Damn refreshing.
Comparing the way these guys speak, one could even feel, in some strange way, that they are using two different languages with two distinct sets of words and phrases. Hitchens was a linguistic phenomenon, wasn't he?
15th December 2011 - the day the world became a dumber place. I often wonder if Christopher's family read these comments to see how much he will always be loved and missed in equal measure.