A Morbidly Drunk Christopher Hitchens on the Daily Show
Wed, 2007-05-02 01:42 — Nick Lewis
Christopher Hitchens teaches us all some very important lessons on last night's Daily Show:
1. There is a time and place for being smashed. A 7 minute interview with Jon Stewart is not one of them.
2. If you do choose to be smashed during your interview, you'd probably be wise to avoid subjects such as "why relgion is the root of all evil".
3. Do yourself a favor: Next time you feel attractive while drunk, think of Hitchens in this interview.
Atheists should politely ask Hitchens to stop "helping the cause". Lord knows the last thing atheists need is for their spokesman to be cross-eyed, red-faced, bloated drunk on national television.
Watch this trainwreck of an interview for yourself.
BONUS:
Pretend that you are a cop who pulled over Hitchens in this interview. How long did it take for you to realize the man is intoxicated? (10 seconds for me).
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It's not so much Hitchens' smoking and drinking habits atheists should be worried about. What really amuses me is that the so-called "rational" atheist fanclub don't see that the lot of them (Hitchens, PZMeyers, Dawkins, Harris and to a lesser extent Dennett) frequently write erm... factual errors.
In "The God Delusion" Dawkins makes use of probability in a way that has any college math student roll on the floor laughing. It's that bad. Harris wrote in an articke about Fitna several things about the Dutch media and government which simply aren't true and which he did see fit not correct after several Dutch people pointed it out to him. Hitchens is more well read than any of them, but he hasn't read "Dark Night of the Soul" of John of the Cross if he thinks Mother Theresa was an atheïst. These are just a few examples that come to mind while I'm typing this. The really sad thing is that the atheist fanclub laps it up uncritically and doesn't see the "campaign" of these people for what it really is. A half-drunk Hitchens is just one of the pointers to what it really is.
marbrie from the Netherlands, just passing by this blog when searching for blog articles about Drupal.
Hitchens did rather well........
I love Hitchens, yep, he drinks a bit heavy, but his ideas are on spot about most things
Yep...he's a heavy drinker and <gasp> a smoker!
I'm neither a drinker nor a smoker, but I love Hitch.
Judge him on his words and his ideas, not his habits.
Even two sheets to the wind, he can out-debate 95% of the general public and is better read than at least that same percentage.
hitchy
Ever since I first saw him on Dennis Miller program on HBO a long time ago when he HAD A DRINK IN HIS HAND...i knew he does interviews with a bit of intoxication. YOu can see it in every interview he does. I love him, don't agree totally, but he is great.
Like you, I enjoy his aura
Like you, I enjoy his aura at times. sometimes... perhaps the problem in this clip was that he wasn't drunk, but rather undrunk. E.g. had a few too many, and was half sober... even the best drunk is far from inspiring in such a state.
Nonsense. Hitch's highly
Nonsense. Hitch's highly functional and unapologetic alcoholism is one of the many things that makes him great :)
on cnn..
i think the daily show wasn't really the best venue for him. this cnn interview, on the other hand, is brilliant.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,977,Lou-Dobbs-Interviews-Christopher-Hitchens,Lou-Dobbs-Tonight-CNN