So is Hitchens' ass still red from the spanking Jon gave him

[democrat in Tallahassee]

last night? Why can't our dems speak out like that?

[chookie]

1. Rare combination of humor, intellect and charm

Comes around very rarely, and usually presages the coming of an Ice Age.

I think Stewart, in all openness and honesty, begged Hiccupchens to set him straight, and the old drunken fart could not.

Jon kept it civil, and gave Hitchens very opportunity to express himself, and Hitchens, if you noticed, malignant egotist that he is, fled in a hissy fit.

Funny Charming Intelligent Person 1 \Malignant Trotskyite Fascist Drunken Egotists 0

Interesting that Hitchens villfies people like Mother Theresa, and worships monkeys like Bush. 'Nuff said.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. no defender of Hitchens, but have you read the MT book?

I have, and it shows, among other things, that she was quite close to Charles Keating....used his plane frequently, wrote personal reference letters for him during his legal travails

lots of other damning stuff, but the Keating section was enough for me....and he provides copies of actual documents

nother thing...she was sitting on a GIGANTIC pile of money, that was NOT being used to help her dear suffering poor

don't take my word for it

[EnfantTerrible]

2. Is there a link to this?

please? I would love to see this.

[kliljedahl]

4. It's on Crooks & Liars

Jon kicked ass, It's taped & preserved forever in this household.

[Lex]

3. Hitchens jumped up and got out of there, didn't he?

Couldn't get away from Jon's ass-whupping fast enough.

[girl gone mad]

5. Funny that back when he was a liberal..

he would chase Kissinger around the country, begging for a fight. Now that he's a right winger, he runs from confrontation like a typical cowardly neo-con.

[ecoflame]

6. I think it was Jon's smirk

and his question - do you want me to plug your book? or something like that. I watched the show. And of course everyone wonders if he was tipsy.

[DefenseLawyer]

14. I only wish he had called him on Zarqawi, one of the RWs favorite lies

The line about Zarqawi being an al Qaeda terrorist in Iraq before the invasion is twisted all the hell. Yes Zarqawi was in Iraq before we invaded, but his camp was in the Kurdish region. Saddam had so little control over the Kurdish regions that his trucks had to pay a toll to drive on Kurdish roads. And he was Ansar al-Islam, not al Qaeda.

From Wikipedia:

The Bush Administration also has claimed that there are links between Saddam Hussein's government and Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad (Monotheism and Holy War) has taken credit for kidnappings and beheadings directed against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Zarqawi is rumored to have been treated in an Iraqi hospital after being wounded in Afghanistan during the U.S. invasion. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi had settled in Kurdish northern Iraq (an area not controlled by Saddam Hussein's government) where he joined the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, which was an enemy of the Ba'athist government. Nevertheless, U.S. officials continued to assert that Zarqawi constitutes an important link between Saddam's government and al Qaeda. A CIA report in early October 2004 "found no clear evidence of Iraq harbouring Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." <68> Also, Zarqawi does not seem to have ever been, as some have asserted, an al Qaeda leader, and only pledged his allegiance to the al Qaeda organization in October 2004.<69> This pledge came two days after his insurgent organization in Iraq was officially declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

[Arkham House]

7. Just a Thought...

Is it possible that someone in the BFEE has something on Hitchens, and that he's being blackmailed to "support" them? Yeah, yeah...tinfoil of the worst stripe. I would only point out that Hitchens himself, in his honorable days, spent a good deal of time examining the GOP treason--not too strong a word--in the '68 election, and the October Surprise of 1980...so it can't be too off the point to wonder about him right about now. Also--this whole point about his body language, facial expressions, et al...he looks *very* uncomfortable. Since we at DU are known--to put it politely--to examine every paranoid possibility...why not this one...

[Jade Fox]

11. He is currently in the employ....

of a Right-wing think tank, is he not?

Welcome to DU, by the way!

[stanwyck]

8. Wakeup call to the Bush apologists

the gloves are now off. It's official. If the mainstream media won't do their job, the blogs and Jon Stewart will. And Bill Maher. And AAR.
There are people going after Bush. It's happening.
Coulter, get ready. Do some homework for a change. Your inappropriate Bushian giggling is not enough anymore. We're coming after you with facts.
Try to counterpunch.

[wli]

10. we can't stop halfway

We can't stop at impeaching Bush and convicting Cheney.

We can't stop at voting the Republican Party completely out of office.

We can't stop until every last member of the Republican Party and the entire DLC "fifth column" of Republicans infiltrating the Democratic Party, and the AEI, Heritage Foundation, Richard Mellon Scaife, PNAC, et al are all in the Hague to the last man.

[6000eliot]

12. Not as red as his nose!

[discopants]

13. I secretly want Hitchins to be on our side

Yes, Jon was powerful and on message, and Hitchins was an ass. But Hitchins has also written some excellent work that helps us, like his work on the Ohio voter fraud, As Jon said last night about wanting Bush to be on our side, likewise, Hitchins has the name that gets exposure on print and on TV, and I'd rather he spend time using his drunken intellect to expose the fraud that is in the WH. Hitchins made some good points, and Stewart said he agreed with them, as do I, about Bush's incompetence. Rather than all the gloating on Hitchins' ass whooping, I hope that Hitchins may see Stewart's points are valid, and where he finds common ground might be a career move, because face it, it's all about these guys making money.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Hitchens & George Galloway to debate in NYC Sept. 14.

This should be as good if not better than Abbie Hoffman debating G. Gordon Liddy in the 80s.

[Autonomy]

16. Wasn't that Tim Leary and Liddy?

Or did Abbie debate him, too? Would've loved to have seen that.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Nope. Abbie & G. Gordon. I was in the front row at NYU, sitting next to

his S.O. I think her name was Joanna.

BTW, Abbie "won" the debate. He was quite articulate.

[sakabatou]

17. If only Stewart was president

How the world would look now... ^^;