Hitchins is already leaning...who wants to take bets on how long

[renie408]

it takes before he just falls over entirely??

[renie408]

1. Sorry, he's on Real Time with Bill Maher and is drunker than usual

He is slurring from the get go.

[Greenpeach]

23. Did you notice, when he thought he was off camera ...

that he reached down and picked up a cup from near his right foot and took a swig?

[moc]

2. He looks drunk

[renie408]

3. It is not ever IF he is drunk, its HOW drunk is he??? n/t

[graywarrior]

4. He thinks he's an interesting character in some play he's written.

He needs an AA meeting along with Dimson.

[blondeatlast]

5. Only interesting to HIM. I just watch the train wreck to see how much

he yells "OVER HERE!"

[graywarrior]

6. I'm waiting for the aneurism

It's bound to happen.

[renie408]

7. I think that even he is losing his enthusiasm for the part he has written

himself.

HOLY SHIT!! GO GALLOWAY!! "He has not found God, he has found the party of God."

[graywarrior]

8. May he write a final chapter.

[Greenpeach]

21. Why was Hitchens allowed to dominate the time with his bullshit?

He went on and on with his gibberish and ridiculous 18th century analogies. I so wanted more from Galloway who should've been allowed to cream Hitchens. Do you think he just didn't think it was worth it, that Hitchens was showing viewers that he was too ridiculous to bother with? Still, there would be those that thought he was besting Galloway.

[renie408]

22. I think Maher was fascinated with Hitchins sort of like a rubbernecker

at a car wreck on the side of the road.

[mitchum]

29. He's living out a goon's idea of a Graham Greene protagonist...

A drink-soddden journalist spending booze-soaked evenings in a Burmese bar.
He's as riduculous as Reagan or bush playing cowboy.

[renie408]

9. George Bush must be ok because Laura loves him...???

Jeez, Hitchins is being so weird he isn't even fun to watch.

[readermostly]

18. I don't get HBO. Please tell me he didn't say this Laura line.

I'm sure she does, but that is not a defense. I'll bet the British people are SO glad he is no longer in their country pontificating.

[renie408]

19. Oh yes he did say it...

Then went babbling on about what a lovely and gentle woman she is. *gag*

Bill Maher said that was like saying that Hitler must be OK because his dog loved him and Hitchins accused him of...wait for it....being 'ungallant'. It was actually kind of surreal.

[readermostly]

24. Thank you. His follow-up was, if possible, even more bizarre!

[atommom]

38. His choo-choo has jumped the track for good.

How could he honestly expect anyone to take him seriously when he berated Bill for "comparing Laura to a dog"? I fear his elevator will never go all the way to the top again. :nopity:

[NNadir]

10. Who is Hitchins?

[renie408]

11. British author

who has written several politically inspired books, articles, etc. His latest is about Thomas Jefferson. For some bizarre and unknowable reason,he is in love with George Bush. He is a total lush and always appears to be drunk as a motor scooter every time he does an interview show.

[renie408]

12. Who has apparently killed one too many brain cells and is

totally in love with himself.

[dweller]

14. ooh, good answer!

all i could offer is 'he's a drunken popinjay...'

dp

[NVMojo]

32. ...and, sadly, he's a regular in Vanity Fair ....

[Eurobabe]

39. Like attracts like, you know...

[blondeatlast]

13. "I love it when the British fight..."

:rofl:

[renie408]

15. "I think we can all agree, the only thing that is better is a chick fight"

[WCGreen]

36. LOL

[Montauk6]

16. I don't know what you folks are talking about...

Looks perfectly sober to me...



The face of a teetotaler.

NOT!!!!

[Arugula Latte]

43. Good lord. Look at pic. #3. Gin blossom FACE.

Yikes. Don't know what's gonna get ol' Chris first -- the booze or the cigs? Or maybe his liver and his lungs will gang up on him simultaneously.

[renie408]

17. OMG!! "Congratulations, you are officially a category 5 President"!!

God, I love Bill Maher.

[Lecky]

20. Hitchens was embarrassingly bad tonight

I almost felt bad for the drunk...

[aion]

25. Did he still have the beard that he had debating Galloway?

I must get my hands on this video. Until then, can someone tell me whether Kristoph was fuzzy-faced?

[renie408]

26. No, no beard.

But his eyes are getting more basset hound-y by the day. I swear, it looks like his face is melting.

[readermostly]

27. Does it seem that now Hitchens has almost become the comedy

relief for the news shows? Actually, I'm almost sad for him. He sees himself as relevant.

[bluedawg12]

28. How did he turn into a neocon?

Bitchings used to be a socialist. He is full of non-sense, including his non-sequiture on the Barbary Coast.

Ooooh, now Hitchy is being bitchy with Galloway.

[mitchum]

30. $$$

[0007]

44. Neocon $$$$$

[Crunchy Frog]

42. Alot of the neocons used to be.

Several of them are ex-Trotskyists and if you look at the ideological details, they are not that dissimilar. It's my belief that the political spectrum is circular rather than linear, and that the extremes of left and right eventually meet up with each other. People who are attracted by absolutist ideologies often don't care about the particulars of the ideology so long as it remains absolutist in nature.

[NVMojo]

31. that is one angry sphincter ...

[tularetom]

33. Didja notice how he wouldn't even look at Galloway?

All in all the show sucked tonight.

[Cosmocat]

35. Yeah ..

It just wasn't a good lineup ... You know eventually Hitchens and Galloway would square off and it would not be about the show ...

Hitchens was late on the set, and late to leave, I think the tension between he and Galloway was just too great ...

I get that Maher is trying to balance things out a bit, but I really didn't like the second interview with Dickens or whoever he is, talking totally out of his ass ... Maher nailed him once or twice, and you could tell he was just cringing and dying to call him totally full of shit, but didn't cause of this would be balance thing ...

I kind of like Hitchens ... Of all the people whoring for the war, he is the first I have heard who doesn't just recite talking points over and over ... I don't agree, of course, but he just has more depth to his points than the average R-Con ...

[_Winston_Smith_101]

40. Hitchens is clearly a drunk!

I heard it was Johnny Walker Black Label!

[AtomicKitten]

34. Hitchins is a turd.

He's isn't leaning anywhere except on his own behalf. He's an arrogant blowhard that is fully into imperialism, and I for one think he should get off his drunk ass and go fight in Iraq since he has a hard-on for that particular war.

[Totally Committed]

37. Hitchens is like this really bad car wreck happening in front

of our eyes. It's so bad that we just can't look away. But, it's happening in slow motion. And we watch and we watch, wondering if he'll hit a wall, roll the car over, or just skid out of control over a cliff. He's mesmerizing in that way. And, so sad.

There was a time, back in the 70's when he was still a raging Liberal, when he was really something. I don't know if he was so impressive because he hadn't started drinking around the clock yet, or if it was because he was then young enough to handle it, but he could really talk and write. Sure, he was arrogant, but it was an arrogance backed up by the promise of greatness. I used to think he would be my generation's Gore Vidal.

But, to look at him now and just see this ever-inebriated lush, slurring and spitting out such venomous trash. Ugh. The wasted potential just makes me want to cry.

That's happened with a few people I knew back then. To watch them now veer so catastrophically off-track and waste their potential for greatness makes my heart heavy.

He should have been better than this.

TC

[Crunchy Frog]

41. Depends...

on how much of his liver is still functional and how long it will take for it to completely crap out.

[bluedawg12]

45. Watching the rerun tonight- Bitchins is there to shill his book

his half hearted comments show little interest, other than book sales.