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CrispyChicken 10/14/2012 10:58 AM Report
When I started looking on youtube I first discovered the arguments of Harris, Hitchens, Tyson, Dawkins and others back in early 2008. For the first time in my life I didn't feel completely alone on the topic of religion and its impact on policy, society and my own life. Up until that point I thought those voices were completely silenced in media and only expressed mainstream in art, music and film. Unlike video and audio, it is extremely hard for me to focus on reading anything for extended periods of time. Their on going work has become a part of my life. When Hitch passed away a part of me went with him.
laylazad 01/22/2012 05:51 AM Report
It's Christopher, not Chris.
bReimers 12/29/2011 06:38 PM Report
Thank You for the Remembrance ... when will the full 'tribute' air???
andrew_ivers 12/21/2011 02:40 PM Report
Thank you for this -- a finely chosen moment from a great interview. I look forward to your full discussion on Mr Hitchens this week. If I may make one quibble, however: please be sure to call him Christopher, not Chris, as you remember him this week. He rather deplored the abbreviation of his name, even devoting a chapter to it in his memoir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_jZYZx9iU
Thank you for the best interview show (and one of the best websites) in television.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 12/20/2011 02:25 AM Report
He was indeed a wild man and that hole under his nose got him into loads of trouble--including most likely his death:
'Hitchens identified himself for many years as the heir to me ... unfortunately, for him, I didn't die.' Gore Vidal
"The Gospel story of the Garden of Gethsemane used to absorb me very much as a child, because its "break" in the action and its human whimper made me wonder if some of the fantastic scenario might after all be true. Jesus ask, in effect, "Do I have to go through with this?" It is an impressive and unforgetable question, and I long ago decided that I would cheerfully wager my own soul on the belief that the only right answer to it is "no." Christopher Hitchins
More quotes: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens
johnbekker 12/19/2011 05:35 PM Report
"you'd see how he always based his opinions on the facts of the matter and ideologically based defenses had little to do with it." pretty much sums up what CH was all about. Slavoj Zizek was on the program a couple of weeks ago, him and Charlie talked about statutes that will be build 100 years from now in honor of people living today. Christopher gets my "vote".
winter 12/19/2011 11:58 AM Report
Hitchens may have been the most rational man on the planet. His courage of conviction went where few would dare tread and expect to come out alive. Mother Teresa, Kissinger -- both, if you actually listened to the why of his take on both of them, you'd see how he always based his opinions on the facts of the matter and ideologically based defenses had little to do with it.
Between his loss and W.F.Buckleys there are few eloquent voices left to entertain wordsmithing fans. Who's left to marry the poetry in prose with logic the way those two could? Not unlike the entertainment world as we keep losing luminaries like Sinatra, Brando, Carson, Lennon and Harrison Pavorati (...the names don't stop coming at you the longer you allow search mode )and others we're surely left with satisfying options thinned out. Life is just too short relative to its importance.