Generally, I find radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt a big ol’ blowhard and don’t listen to him, with two notable exceptions: When Mark Steyn is on and when Christoper Hitchens is on. Just now, I’m making dinner and Christopher Hitchens is on the show. I could listen to him forever. I heart him. So smart. So funny. SO British. Anyway, here’s the exchange I heard:
HH: So will Obama put Hillary on the ticket?
CH: Gahd, no!
HH: Why?
CH: Because he would never know a moment’s peace for the rest of his life.
HH: Why?
CH: Because he’d be hounded by a megalomaniac who’s shackled in marriage to a thug.
He then went on to talk at length about Hillary’s “FLAHbbergasting behavior” — not all of which I caught because I was laughing too hard at “FLAHbbergasting behavior,” at the punch, the contemptuous clip he gave that little phrase.
Hahahahahaha! I love you, Christopher Hitchens. There’s no one like you.
Call me!
I’m not a big Hitchens fan. Usually whenever I take a chance and listen to him or watch him interviewed, he spends the whole time talking about how stupid Christians are. I’m kinda turned off by that.
Yeah, I don’t share his beliefs on that, but otherwise — love him.
He’s a brilliant writer. He actually has made me rethink a couple of my core positions and almost nobody does that. Also, he’s hysterical.
He’s kind of like the Simon Cowell of politics, isn’t he?
We should make up a list of people whose accents we love.
sheila — I know. I’ll buy Vanity Fair just to read what Hitchens has written.
His book reviews in The Atlantic are fantastic, too! I read Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop because of his review – and I was sitting on the bus wiping tears of laughter off my face – one of the funniest books I have EVER read … I would never have picked it up if it hadn’t been for how he wrote about it.