Great Moments With Christopher Hitchens on The Hour With George Stroumboulopoulos

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  • The inimitable Christopher Hitchens was a red chair regular. For our 10th season, we're looking back at some of George's favourite interviews. Here are some great moments with Hitch from over the years.
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Komentáře • 89

  • @ashleycohen2258
    @ashleycohen2258 Před 2 lety +20

    He had his time here.
    He left us a fine legacy.

  • @CryptoChanakya
    @CryptoChanakya Před 2 lety +19

    The greatest wielder of English language in human history. The most charismatic employer of logic, wit and perspective ever.

    • @enkibumbu
      @enkibumbu Před rokem +1

      And perhaps the 2nd greatest drinker, after Andre The Giant.

  • @BradReddekopp
    @BradReddekopp Před 10 lety +43

    Thanks for this. I wish Hitch was still among us. We're very fortunate to still have some much of him.

  • @sportsportsport
    @sportsportsport Před 10 lety +45

    God how I miss Hitchens.

  • @belturbet4
    @belturbet4 Před 2 lety +7

    "No child behind left." Very CH chapter title.

  • @fredthompson1674
    @fredthompson1674 Před 2 lety +45

    10 years friends since he left this world, and oh what a mess it has been.

  • @garyp1432
    @garyp1432 Před 2 lety +4

    He put everything I believe into perspective

  • @AlcibiadesMD
    @AlcibiadesMD Před 2 lety +7

    Ah, what a delightful beautiful bastard he was, I sorely miss him, his written works, voice and legacy ensures his immortality. 🥃 This tumbler of JWB is in your honor.

  • @kingsteve55
    @kingsteve55 Před 10 lety +37

    The great man lives on in his work and his words

    • @elnegromasguapo
      @elnegromasguapo Před 2 lety

      Greatest freethinker

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine Před 2 lety +1

      @@elnegromasguapo ​ @chris sonofpear1 Satan is well pleased with his hitchfuk fool!

    • @jamesmarriott7216
      @jamesmarriott7216 Před 2 lety

      @@mysticwine sad that this is the types of things that religious simpletons say. Sickening

    • @rep3e4
      @rep3e4 Před 2 lety +1

      Well, he still lives and he is in a place he chose

    • @mysticwine
      @mysticwine Před 2 lety

      @@jamesmarriott7216 Misery = ch

  • @markstewart4501
    @markstewart4501 Před 10 lety +2

    Great clip. He really was a teacher of autonomy, and spent a considerable amount of time releasing people from their particular theological shackles.

  • @shsdeauperez6021
    @shsdeauperez6021 Před 6 lety +26

    Saddest death in human history.... We miss you Hitchens😢

    • @ashleycohen2258
      @ashleycohen2258 Před 2 lety +1

      Sadder than Jesus?

    • @hdmccart6735
      @hdmccart6735 Před 2 lety

      @@ashleycohen2258 Um, he got better apparently...Which is uncannily similar to the story written in the Indian Vedas (circa 1500 - 1500 BCE) which also included the virgin birth, crucifixion and resurrection...it's almost as if jews, christians and muslims were Bronze age morons who couldn't come up with their own rubbish story...

    • @ChillAssTurtle
      @ChillAssTurtle Před 2 lety +1

      @@ashleycohen2258 jesus probably never lived or died.. we know for a fact hitchens did

  • @bluebellsinthewoods
    @bluebellsinthewoods Před 10 lety +6

    I miss him.

  • @adrienpiette6746
    @adrienpiette6746 Před 10 lety +2

    Brilliant.

  • @roadtoreason3368
    @roadtoreason3368 Před 2 lety +7

    I wasn't aware that the Hitch had given up smoking. Sadly, it was too late to save him, and the world is worse off for it.

  • @brendamaviano
    @brendamaviano Před 10 lety +1

    Rip. ..bless your family.

  • @travelinben1966
    @travelinben1966 Před 3 lety +2

    R.I.P. Hitch😔

  • @menace3507
    @menace3507 Před 2 lety +4

    I wish he was still here

  • @060in3seconds
    @060in3seconds Před 3 lety +5

    I have quit smoking too. I’m sorry I know it’s the right thing but I’m 56 and I have no vices. I was wondering what you do without vices? I’m thinking I become like the Church Lady SNL.

    • @StopMAGA
      @StopMAGA Před 2 lety

      Smoke a joint. It's a healthier vice.

  • @colinclark2381
    @colinclark2381 Před rokem +2

    Thank God for Christopher Hitchens!! Just kidding. I loved the guy and I hope that what he inspired in the multitudes will bring about more Christopher Hitchens to continue his incredible teachings about truth and putting the spotlight on the lies we are daily told.

  • @chancewallace47
    @chancewallace47 Před rokem

    I love when Hitchens said "I stopped sleeping with men when my appearance declined to the point only women would sleep with me."

  • @TyDurr1
    @TyDurr1 Před 4 lety +5

    I automatically read George Stephanopoulos in the title, but now that I see what it really is, I am absolutely amazed that a more ridiculous name exists

    • @AB-nf4xp
      @AB-nf4xp Před 2 lety

      Racist much? GFY

    • @wraithgr
      @wraithgr Před 2 lety +3

      Coming from "Tyler Durr" that's a bit much...

  • @BLAB-it5un
    @BLAB-it5un Před rokem

    Hitchens was the perfect contradiction as summed up in these clips - on the one hand a relentless champion to rid the world of the poison of religion and the dogmatism and demagoguery that defines it, and yet his untimely death was caused in no small way by his inability to avoid the temptations and self-destructive poisons of addictions. In this sense the two cancel each other out making almost anything he tried to argue invalid. To spend your life seeking the highs of drugs or the sedatives of drugs (or both likely in alternating fashion) is not much different than falling victim to the stupefying drug of religion and it is precisely this fallibility that fuels the cults of religion as the presumptive better option than drugs. Humanity will have to evolve into something better without either of these options by way of resolving the drive to seek them out in the first place and there doesn't appear to be much movement on this front best I can tell.

  • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921

    Please share my two brief videos with other people. Thanks!

  • @user-si4gk6ro1b
    @user-si4gk6ro1b Před 4 lety

    five feet apart trailer

  • @ChristianWhiteGuy
    @ChristianWhiteGuy Před rokem

    Have to wonder if his belief in God has changed.

    • @donthesitatebegin9283
      @donthesitatebegin9283 Před rokem

      Yeah, now he's been dead for over ten years maybe he's changed his mind ...(!?)

  • @leenify3796
    @leenify3796 Před 2 lety +2

    Yet the religious are still here and in big numbers while he is decomposing all by himself.

    • @mickeybowmeister1944
      @mickeybowmeister1944 Před 2 lety +2

      Religion is dead.

    • @AlcibiadesMD
      @AlcibiadesMD Před 2 lety +2

      Religion, delusions, beliefs in saints, spirits, devils and all sort of absurdities will live on until the end of human extinction. This is why free-inquire, science and rational skepticism is necessary to counteract the world of fallacy and stupidity.
      This is why ultra-smart people like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan are necessary on this planet.

    • @margogonzalez1040
      @margogonzalez1040 Před 2 lety +1

      all he ever stood up for was the truth undiluted, those bothered by the truth are dangerous to the rest of humanity in that they want to force others to obey their archaic beliefs

  • @rep3e4
    @rep3e4 Před 2 lety +3

    I bet Hitchens regrets it all now …. Sorry, times up, I honestly feel sorry for him as a person, but he had his chance, well heaps of chances and he rejected it

    • @JohnSmiffer
      @JohnSmiffer Před 2 lety +15

      Hitchens don't regret shit. He has entered the void. There is no thought or regret or anything. There is nothing.

    • @fishfingers8441
      @fishfingers8441 Před 2 lety +8

      Lmfao your literally willing to mock someone’s death to feel morally superior

    • @AlcibiadesMD
      @AlcibiadesMD Před 2 lety +6

      Sorry to break it to you once again, but there’s no going anywhere after death, no heaven nor hell, all of the above is man made out of fear and arrogance creating his immortality out of his refusal to accept that he is nothing more than just another animal. When we perish one day we all cease to exist…the end.

    • @ferdinandagordon223
      @ferdinandagordon223 Před 2 lety

      Totally agree. He unfortunately was never saved.

    • @gonesnake2337
      @gonesnake2337 Před 2 lety +7

      @@ferdinandagordon223 But he saved so many

  • @sonnyirish3678
    @sonnyirish3678 Před 2 lety

    This is TV for simpletons.

    • @stellamaris5405
      @stellamaris5405 Před 2 lety

      *@sonny irish* ☘️ What is?

    • @StopMAGA
      @StopMAGA Před 2 lety +4

      Disputing the the "truths" of delusional people is not simple at all.

    • @sonnyirish3678
      @sonnyirish3678 Před 2 lety +1

      @@StopMAGA Yes the truth is Christianity made the West and ended slavery.Dispute that.

    • @StopMAGA
      @StopMAGA Před 2 lety +4

      @@sonnyirish3678 Very weak argument. Everybody believed in Christianity when slavery was abolished, so it stands to reason Christians ended slavery. However, that was before science offered other explinations. Do we still believe the earth is flat? Can we agree that not all animals were on Noah's Ark? Is the Christian God bigger than the universe? Can an omnipotent celestial being inseminate a human? Do people live after they are dead? The improbability of such things, with no proof to back it up, is why religion isn't trusted like it once was.

    • @roadtoreason3368
      @roadtoreason3368 Před 2 lety +1

      @@sonnyirish3678 Are you freaking KIDDING me?!! Christianity ended slavery? Do I need to begin providing quotes from Christians DEFENDING slavery in the antebellum and Civil War years? Time and time again, southerners literally claimed that, by enslaving Africans and "Christianizing" them, they were lifting them up out of their savage state. In any case, the Bible repeatedly condones slavery, so those Christians who did oppose slavery on moral grounds were certainly NOT doing so based on any biblical dictate.