Christopher Hitchens on the
Anderson Cooper 360 show
talking about Reverend Jerry
Falwell and his death of the
previous day. Recorded on
15-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
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Christopher Hitchens on the
Anderson Cooper 360 show
talking about Reverend Jerry
Falwell and his death of the
previous day. Recorded on
15-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

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