Galloway vs. Hitchens

It’s on!

Internationally acclaimed journalist Amy Goodman, host of the national daily, radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Join us for this exciting event. Support independent media. Tell your friends about the event:

New York, NY:

Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 PM

A debate between George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens on Iraq and U.S. and British foreign policy.

Moderated by Amy Goodman

Mason Hall at the Baruch College Performing Arts Center
17 Lexington Ave., enter on 23rd St.
New York, NY

Tickets $12 in advance through Ticket Central www.ticketcentral.com, Phone: 212-279-4200 and at the door.

Wow. If any readers of this blog attend this, please make sure to email me or post your recap here. That’s gonna be one for the ages. Methinks Galloway is going to get a verbal thrashing like he’s never heard before.

7 Responses to "Galloway vs. Hitchens"

The Dread Pirate Gryphon says:

August 30, 2005 at 3:39 pm

I very well may be there – I’ll keep you posted.
Sister Toldjah says:

August 30, 2005 at 3:48 pm

Great! I’d love to get a first hand account … from the looks of things, conservatives might just feel a bit out of place there
Kevin says:

August 30, 2005 at 9:23 pm

Dang! I’m vacationing in NJ until the 12th! Then I have to go back to Louisiana to work (not looking forward to what my house looks like, but I’m in the west, so shouldn’t be that bad). Christopher Hitchens is my hero. He speaks like I wish I could. Man, I wish I could afford to stay until then.

If the moderator is even slightly fair, Mr. Hitch will create a few enlightened viewers.
GodBlessAmerica says:

August 30, 2005 at 10:14 pm

Folks you have to read Hitchens article in The Weekly Standard.

The article is titled “The case for overthrowing Saddam was unimpeachable. Why, then, is the administration tongue-tied? ”

LINK

I like his writing style. I just wish he would site the source of fact for his position. He is alot like Moore in the way he tries to frame things up. Because it’s never that simple in reality.
The Dread Pirate Gryphon says:

August 31, 2005 at 11:32 am

GBA:

First, the title is not necessarily Hitchens’s work – editorial staff often write headlines.

Secondly, are you seriously suggesting that these facts:

“Childishness is one thing–those of us who grew up on this wonderful Edwardian author were always happy to see the grown-ups and governesses discomfited. But puerility in adults is quite another thing, and considerably less charming. “You said there were WMDs in Iraq and that Saddam had friends in al Qaeda. . . . Blah, blah, pants on fire.” I have had many opportunities to tire of this mantra. It takes ten seconds to intone the said mantra. It would take me, on my most eloquent C-SPAN day, at the very least five minutes to say that Abdul Rahman Yasin, who mixed the chemicals for the World Trade Center attack in 1993, subsequently sought and found refuge in Baghdad; that Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, Saddam’s senior physicist, was able to lead American soldiers to nuclear centrifuge parts and a blueprint for a complete centrifuge (the crown jewel of nuclear physics) buried on the orders of Qusay Hussein; that Saddam’s agents were in Damascus as late as February 2003, negotiating to purchase missiles off the shelf from North Korea; or that Rolf Ekeus, the great Swedish socialist who founded the inspection process in Iraq after 1991, has told me for the record that he was offered a $2 million bribe in a face-to-face meeting with Tariq Aziz. And these eye-catching examples would by no means exhaust my repertoire, or empty my quiver. Yes, it must be admitted that Bush and Blair made a hash of a good case, largely because they preferred to scare people rather than enlighten them or reason with them. Still, the only real strategy of deception has come from those who believe, or pretend, that Saddam Hussein was no problem.” are Dowdified, Mooreified misstatements and outright lies like those promulgated by Moore?
GodBlessAmerica says:

August 31, 2005 at 2:21 pm

Dread Pirate Gryphon,

Actually man, it is his writing. He even plugs this article in an interview with John Stewart on The Daily Show.

I am not twisting around anything. It’s reality. So I sorry you don’t like it. But it’s reality just the same. It seems alot of folks are not happy with reality anymore. So they make their own. Kudos for creativity.

Heres are some links to that interview.

Here’s a link to Hitchens wesite: Link to video three down from the top.
LINK

Here’s the video: LINK

I know, I know….This is another evil trick propagated by the satanic America hating leftist traitors. They must have kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him to plug his new book about Thomas Jefferson and his article in The Weekly Standard on the Comedy Channel. Those b**tards!

Edited to modify curse word. –ST
Sister Toldjah says:

September 1, 2005 at 12:48 am

Kevin: I hope when you return that you find your home in tact. My heart goes out to the Gulf Coast area. I had to turn the TV off tonight after a while because the images were too much for me to bear.

GBA: I think you way misunderstood Dread’s comments … perhaps a re-read is in order?

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