Newsbusters has the video.
Ironically, in a small way I flipped off Maher’s audience myself last evening when, after getting home and taking off my shoes, I cursed up a blue streak at the teenager working the late night drive-thru at Taco Bell for shorting me a Baja Gordita.
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update: Bonus footage of Hitchens on the Daily Show last year (via Hot Air)
Little did you know that her mom was a waitress too…
What is it with Taco Bell being unable to get an order right? We’ve lived in the same neighborhood for five years now, and the Taco Bell closest to us hasn’t gotten our order right ONCE.
They’re building a new Taco Bell in the strip mall just outside our housing development. At least if, no, when they get my order wrong it will be close enough that I can walk up there and give them what for instead of having to load the kids back into the car to drive to get my food.
Yeah, I”m on board with that, but I’m missing the irony part.
I hate, hate, HATE Bill Maher with his smug superiority, but always check to see who his panel will be. Don’t think I’ve ever seen him shut up the way Hitchens did last night when Maher started down the “no Al Qaeda in Iraq before we invaded” path. And when Hitchens said laughing at Bush’s IQ is for stupid people like those making “mooing and booing noises” in Maher’s audience it was downright awe-inspiring.
After that, Maher’s interview with Mr Kos was, to say the least, dry. Bill seemed devoid of enthusiasm by that point, and Kos sounded like the deranged wanna-be that he is.
“King of the Blogs”, indeed!
/sarcasm off
TW: I’d have paid to see Maher get bitch-slapped like that.
Like I always say, Christopher Hitchens is wrong, except when he’s right. And then, boy, is he right.
Nice job, son.
P.S. There’s a reason why we call it “Taco Hell”.
I always check my order before I drive off. Always. Many a time I nearly drove off without my salad accessories. Lethal Weapon comes to mind as I check everything, twice.
They eff you at the drive through, indeed.
Oh, I hate Bill Maher. Insufferable weasel with barely legal young girk sexual tendendancies. I loathe this toad.
“Two Chicken Baja Gorditas w/ no Fiesta” has become my mantra in the last couple of years. Baja Gorditas are from Heaven.
Fucker’s into girks? Figures.
TW: around=where not to try and jerk Hitch
Hitchens, Trotskyite that he is, still makes more sense drunk than most “progressives” do stone cold sober.
SB: personal
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Watch out for those girks!
Malcontent has more of the vid. It’s really good.
Hitchens is a pure liberal, he believes in freedom and liberty, and hates oppression and cruelty in any form. He’s Orwellian in the good sense, he’s a leftist who while cluelessly being a signatory in the ACLU case against the NSA wiretap program understands that fighting evil is good and we always should be on the side that fights oppression, even if the leader happens to be a Republican.
He understands what Kevin Drum is too stupid, weak-minded, and partisan to grasp.
And a drunken, fat Hitchens is still more than a match for Maher. Talk about unmatched intellectual battles. Bambi v Godzilla.
I saw the show and thought Hitchens was masterful, as always. I thought Maher was gonna start crying at one point–Hitchens destroyed his whole shtick.
Did you notice that almost all the reaction shots of guests laughing at Maher’s jokes were of Cleland? Hitchens is beyond laughing, beyond being a ‘good’ guest, beyond flattering hosts with the respect of gentlemanly argument.
I know how Hitchens feels: I’m fed up with the juvenile, reactionary left. His silent salute to all the appeasing morons was perfect. I hope Jon Stewart books him real soon.
And then Colbert.
He’s been on with Stewart, but I doubt he’d play Colbert’s game.
That’s why I’d love to see him on there. Heh.
Agreed, McGehee. I want to see him give both of those guys a whupping, and he could do it.