Hitchens on Al Franken's show

[SensibleCenterist]

I don't usually listen at work (have too much work to do!) but I am listening now to Al Franken talking with Christopher Hitchens.

I can't understand how someone so obviously intelligent can be so completely in thrall to Bush and his idiot world-view.

He mentioned the buried centrifuge as the big proof that the weapons inspectors were all wrong and Saddam was active in nukes.

Of course Saddam wanted nukes at some point, but he had no way make them. Hitchens response? Saddam was skimming oil-for-food money in order to buy them from NK!

He also gives the Iraq war credit for "softening" Libya. Sheesh.

Al is amazingly restrained.

[Teaser]

1. Can you hear him drinking?

I just wonder if the *Glug glug glug*s come across on the radio.

[Moochy]

6. If you hear Christopher Hitchens talking

It's the booze talking!

[Maat]

2. I was listening to that ... still trying to get blood pressure down (n/t).

[htuttle]

3. Drink-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay!

I can't stand him.

[Frederik]

5. Hey, you beat me to it!

[Frederik]

4. Drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay

[SHRED]

7. My beef with Al's show

He has wingnuts and Bush/Rush sympathizers on.
I thought we got enough of that through the MSCM already?

I do like Al's other guests.

[Chicago Democrat]

12. I like the right wingers on.. can be really excellent on occassion...

always best to let guest start the fight...


Hitchens is pushing a book. hence boring

[xxqqqzme]

8. sorry - cannot stomach hitchens -

even listening 2 him my minds eye 'sees' his twitches and jerk spasms. dennis miller would have him on every other week, it seemed, when he was still on HBO.

[zalinda]

9. If you're streaming the program

do what I do, stop the stream when there is someone on you don't want to listen to. If the streaming goes way down for a certain guest, they'll get the message.

zalinda

[SensibleCenterist]

10. Funny thing is

They started talking about his book about Jefferson.

Different man. Very interesting things to say, as long as it happened more than 200 years ago.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. That was pitiful.

Franken didn't even bother to refute any of his bullshit.