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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Required Viewing

posted by on May 17 at 7:22 AM

Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell: “A conscious charlatan, bully and fraud.” It’s worth watching the whole thing…

Via Sullivan.

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Very funny.

Posted by rufus | May 17, 2007 7:40 AM
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I tend to think Hitchens is a bit of a quack himself, but that was friggin' awesome!

Posted by GoodGrief | May 17, 2007 8:17 AM
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The truth is always so refreshing.

Posted by homage to me | May 17, 2007 8:18 AM
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I'd say Hitchens can be a bit of a bully and a fraud as well, but he can really bring it. And he's certainly a thousand times less harmful than that fucking toad Falwell.

Posted by Mark Mitchell | May 17, 2007 8:29 AM
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Hitchens has a column about Falwell at Slate that's pretty scathing

http://www.slate.com/id/2166337/nav/tap2/

(I hope it's okay to post this link)

Posted by cat | May 17, 2007 9:43 AM
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"It's a shame that there is no hell for Falwell to go to."

Posted by Zing! | May 17, 2007 9:53 AM
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Hitch's appearance opposite Ralph Reed on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes last night was worth catching too. Check Youtube for it and listen closely at the end as Hitch intones, to the strains of the familiar FN muzak: "If Falwell gets an enema he'll be buried in a matchbox." That might be hard to top.

Posted by Theophrastus Bombastus | May 17, 2007 10:28 AM
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I've been saying sort of the same thing to people over the last couple of days. Only with a lot more swearing. Hitchens is much more civil than I've been able to manage. Or maybe his British accent just makes him sound more classy. :-)

Posted by SDA in SEA | May 17, 2007 10:42 AM
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Let's give his bloated carcass to the chubby-chasing necrophiliacs.

Most disparaging remark I will likely make in reference to a recently deceased person today.

Posted by jackie treehorn | May 17, 2007 10:48 AM
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I dunno. He's just preaching to the choir. Funny, but hardly required viewing.

Posted by Gomez | May 17, 2007 11:10 AM
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still the best.

Posted by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS | May 17, 2007 11:30 AM
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As a Christian, I think Hitchens is completely correct. Falwell etc are a extreme perversion of the Christian faith and they are the reason I'm embarrassed to call myself Christian.

Posted by Al | May 17, 2007 11:41 AM
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Al, you may agree with hitch, but I don't think he would care much for your unperverted version of Christianity either. If you meet him at a cocktail party you will be risking your own portion of vehemence and bile.

Posted by Jude Fawley | May 17, 2007 12:22 PM
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Only someone like Falwell can make me agree with someone like Hitchens!


eeeeeeep!

Posted by Paul Curtin | May 17, 2007 1:31 PM
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That's exactly right.

Posted by tim | May 17, 2007 7:53 PM
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That was incredible.

Posted by imaginary dana | May 17, 2007 8:01 PM
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Mr. Curtin is exactly right: Agreeing with Mr. Hitchens about Falwell (and the former's recent book about God, or the lack thereof) is an unusual feeling. I've been watching him stump around doggedly supporting the war in Iraq for years now and thought I'd lost all respect for the man and his politics. I was surprised, given his position on Iraq, that he's turned out to be so anti-religion.

But you don't have to be an atheist to think Falwell was an Uber-Douche.

Posted by Wender J. Crinklebank | May 18, 2007 5:41 AM
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Thanks, Dan. I don't usually agree with Hitchins, but it was probably the most accurately spoken eulogy we'll get for a very 'small man'.

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