Sunday, January 11, 2009

Hitchens Tells British Politicians to Learn English...



...and although he didn't flip off the audience this time (he saves that for Bill Maher's show), he says, after defending Sir Salmon Rushdie, and as the Political Liberals look on, "there's a sullen, resentful, boring atmosphere in this room."
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11 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

This was fun. You could see all the little Pepeans in the panel squirming, wishing they had a Papa Stalin to put a clean full metal jacket into the reactionary wreckers noggin'. As far as the world of writing goes, the guy has real cojones.

1/11/2009 1:57 PM
Tecumseh said...

Good find, MFT -- that was fun to watch. The woman politico was the quintessential Pepean apparatchik. The gray suits were more cautious, speaking in forked tongues. I thought Boris Johnson would be better, but he seemed rather weaselly himself, though better than your average Pepean pinko, and surely much better than his predecessor, Red Ken Livingston -- an out-and-out commie if there ever was one in charge of London town.

1/11/2009 2:07 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Boris want's to be liked, and doesn't have the cojones of a Hitchens. Johnson wants to keep his, and fears the sword of allah which shines with such a fine edge in the streets of Londonistan. The best he can do is nod in grudging agreement with Hitchens, while hoping no one catches it.
Better than Red Ken? Sure. But only in the sense Ethelred the Unready was better than King John

1/11/2009 2:22 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Yes, Hitchens has the big balls, speaking with the precision, accuracy and gusto of a 21st century Thomas Paine. The Political Liberal woman gave a strange, or contorted response to the question, but only after Hitchens shamed them (likely channeling John Stuart Mill or something).

1/11/2009 2:37 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

Actually, Pepes agree wholeheartedly with the conservatives in this debate.

1/11/2009 5:51 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I figured as much, Pepe: Hitchens understandable intolerance toward religious hatred is extremely agreeable.

1/11/2009 7:11 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Segment II of the show.

Segment III of the show.

Segment IV of the show.

It keeps going.

Segment V of the show.

And Segment VI of the show.

1/11/2009 7:22 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

not to mention his intolerance towards organized religion altogether.
hearing him has certainly changed my point of view on the issue of freedom of expression.

1/11/2009 7:24 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

not to mention his intolerance towards organized religion altogether

Yes, he'd also be a hoot at the Christmas Eve dinner table.

1/12/2009 9:03 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

You mean xmas at the Vatican?

1/12/2009 10:22 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

It'd be great.

1/12/2009 9:22 PM

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