Jon Stewart just spanked the shit out of that SOT Christopher Hitchens

[WCGreen]

Just tore that pompous ass a new one....

Awesome....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What did he say? I turned it off

because Hitchens makes me hurl.

[Cha]

8. Me too now I wish I would

have sucked it up and stayed.

[caligirl]

22. With a scum like him, I figured Jon would do something but not this good!

[TheFarseer]

20. look for it on crooksandliars.com later

I bet they will have it

[Cha]

24. That's where I've watched

his videos before..I'll remember when I come home tomorrow night from work and it will be all up. And then I'll have to jump on and say something about how Awesome Jon was.

[PDittie]

2. And Hitch was pissed about it too

Said "It's been real" and all but ran off the set...

[FormerDittoHead]

42. "It's been real..." - My defense of Hitchens

"It's been real" is the line one says when they've had a miserable time, and Christopher Hitchens DID have his ass handed over to him.

Hitchens is losing his "edge" big time, but I must defend him to the point that he's more of a BBC / CSpan guy and doesn't really work at the increased pace of American TV. I'm not defending American TV - I WISH they had given him more time (a weekly one HOUR "Daily Show" as we don't have a Friday show?) and I wish the interview had the time to talk about the book as well. That he couldn't talk / think ("redraw the map," Hitch! "Redraw the MAP"!) as fast as Stewart and didn't have the time to get all his 5 syllable words in isn't his fault. (he used one last night that really flew by me - those damn English schools! Where do they GET those words!) Also, Hitchens didn't / couldn't / failed to play up to the audience and the applause was distracting, IMO, especially when you seem to not have gotten enough sleep (ahem).

In the end, however, he came on to plug a book. That's where he makes money, and the book plug was well, non-existent. I think Trent Lott sold more books from Wednesday's show!

I guess that's not much of a "defense"... Consider it that "public defender's" version...

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Did He Really Nail Him? n/t

[WCGreen]

6. Fuck yea...

Reasoned and well argue point to rip apart that SOT haughty accent and his twenty dollar vocabulary.....

The NEw AMerican Prospect does a great job refuting his arguements...

[caligirl]

12. Id tell you what was said but it was soo good I don't wabnt to

spoil it for you. He pulled out his fingers and went point by point as straight faced, slamming him, and very pointed. He called him on his O'reilyness shit.

[WCGreen]

32. It was awesome....

[Julius Civitatus]

23. Hitchens berated Jon for making fun of "Dear Leader"...

Jon's reply probably made Hitchens piss himself.

It was brilliant.

[Cha]

4. I missed it..I left when Jon

asked him if he had been to all 3 of the Axis of Evil.

[gumby]

5. Applause

and plenty of "hoot, hoot, hoots".

Jon Rules!

[Julius Civitatus]

7. Hitchens looked drunk... burped a couple of times, hiccups...

It felt like he was about to puke the quart of scotch he likely had before the show.

and yes:

Jon Stewart wiped the floor with his drunken ass!!!

:headbang: :applause: :toast: :party: :yourock:

[caligirl]

9. Damn you beat me to it, slow typer I am. But good on you anyway

[EC]

10. I couldn't stand to watch hitchens

one more time this week. I'll watch repeat I guess, just to see that.

[PunkPop]

11. I watched the whole thing and I feel dirty.

What a worthless, lying asshole Hitchens is. All he can do is spout the same old rightwing talking points. What a worthless POS.

Jon was awesome.

So the drink-soaked popinjay is claiming that Jefferson favored pre-emptive war too so bushboy is only continuing an American tradition? Is that the gist of his new book?

[melody]

28. Hitchens was right about Jefferson being like Bush

Jefferson was also a slave-owning, back-stabbing jerk (just ask John Adams). George would have felt right at home with him.

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. Hey...don't dis my Tom!

He wasn't the only one who owned slaves back then. And John Adams was a jerk, too. :P

[melody]

46. John Adams was da bomb :-)

He did all his own work on his farm, was pro-women's rights and pro-civil rights long before most people, and if we'd listen to him, we'd have avoided the Civil War. He did have a paranoid streak (and granted, was "obnoxious and disliked"), but hey, he was a class act next to Tommy "Long Legs" Jefferson. ;-)

[WCGreen]

33. the thing that is horrible about Hitchens

Is he was and still claims to be a leftist....

He is running interference fro the Bush Family because he feels that Saddam was so odious that he could forgive the criminal actions of the Bush Family in order to rid the world of Saddam....

Blinded by his scotch.....

[Up2Late]

13. I just posted almost the same thing, so I moved it here myself

Jon Stewart is just came down HARD on Christopher Hitchens!

On tonight's "The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart" that is.

That was about the most Aggressive I've ever seen him with ANY guest.

That was Great! A must see!

If you had avoided it thinking it would SUCK, tape or stay up for the 1:00am Re-Play.

Jon Stewart :yourock:

[LSK]

14. that was one of the greatest moments of TV !!!

[caligirl]

17. So proud of Jon! another Tucker moment!

[FormerDittoHead]

43. My thought exactly. One for the "DVD"... n/t

[caligirl]

15. a comment on my thread tells you what happened a bit. second post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2036320

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

16. OK....You All Win....I'll Watch At 11 PM Here In CA

[caligirl]

18. I am re watching this one. Tweety has this guy on all

the time. What shills.

[Julius Civitatus]

19. You'll like the remix of Bush speeches they made in the show

quite hilarious.

[caligirl]

26. I'm in Cali and it comes on at 10 here. Don't want you to miss this!

[Cocoa]

21. that gin-soaked popinjay deserves it

:-)

[Guaranteed]

25. There are about 20 PRICELESS seconds in that interview...

But, apparently (while I didn't see it all- I just saw the priceless part- I felt it), the whole thing was great.

[BlueStateGirl]

27. Damn! I missed it. I'll have to stay up late for the repeat. I can't

believe I forgot all about it!

[Reciprocity]

29. Replay at the top of the hour.

[Allenberg]

30. Forgive my ignorance,

but who exactly is Christopher Hitchens, and why is he so disliked? I know he appeared to be a RW shrill, but I don't know anything about the guy. Can anybody clue me in? :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Sometimes desctibed as a drink-soaked popinjay,

Hitchens is a pompous asshat who used to style himself as a liberal -- he sometimes wrote for The Nation, still writes for Vanity Fair -- but who morphed into a vitriolic neocon after 9/11. Here's a description of his transmogrification:

http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=450

[ieoeja]

48. So Hitch pulls a Brock.

A lot of those on the Right like to ballyhoo the fact they were on the Left until they discovered how "evil" the Left was. They then make a career out of blasting Democrats.

But when you look into their background you always find that, like Hitchens, they were never a part of the mainstream Left, but part of the extremist element: Trotskyites, socialists, Chomskeyites, etc. People who hate Democrats almost as much as they hate Republicans.

So why is it, when they finally recognize the flaws in their position, folk like Hitchens and Brock make the jump, not to liberalism and the Democratic party, but all the way over to the Right. And then start lumping Democrats in with all those mentioned above? They KNOW Democrats are not Trotskyites, socialists, etc. Yet they are happy to repeat Right lies that we are once they turn against the far Left element.

I guess they're just extremist. The position doesn't seem to matter much as long as it is out there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. (delete) - dupe

[readermostly]

31. I've always thought he was an odious person. Glad to hear he was taken

done a several notches.

[ticapnews]

36. It's now up at crooks and liars...

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The-Daily-Show-Hitchens-8-25-05.wmv

[Mr Rabble]

37. That was great. Hitchens got wrecked.

In all fairness however, Hitchens has seen better days.

[In_The_Wind]

38. woo~hoo !

:kick:

[fujiyama]

39. I have a new admiration for Stewart

I always found him an incredibly funny satirist, but this was nothing short of brilliant.

He really is one of the greatest spokesperson the left has. He can refute pathetic arguments, all without sounding nasty, meanspirited, or condescending - and even better, find a way to make you laugh about it.

[laylah]

40. Video is

now up and running at Crooks and Liars :woohoo:

Jenn

[GumboYaYa]

41. That was awesome; one of the best and most concise

refutations of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration I have seen. Stewart is a dangerous man when he wants to be. Sometimes he will give a winger a pass, but there are times when he deconstructs bullshit better than anyone.

That was one of his best shows ever last night.

[Bassic]

45. Is there a transcript anywhere?

[ZinZen]

47. Favorite part

was when Hitchens got distracted by the audience clapping, forgot what he was saying and Jon interjected with "and you were agreeing with me....". Hitchens again was flustered.