Jon Stewart blindsides Christopher Hitchens, needs a vacation
The Jon Stewart-Christopher Hitchens dust-up from last Thursday has become something of a blogosphere cause celèbre, and plus Jon’s on vacation again so yes, we’re weighing in, albeit without our usual obsessive transcribing. Honey, sometimes we just can’t.
But also, sometimes we don’t want to; because, though it was a mesmerizing segment in which yes, Jon did kind of hand Hitchens his heinie, it nonetheless wasn’t the kind of segment I like to see. Why? Because it’s supposed to be a dialogue and Hitch and Jon kept talking over each other! It irrirtated me that Hitch was being all Mary Poppins-patronizing with long intros and quips, and irritated me that Jon wouldn’t let him speak, dammit – especially after imploring him to “help me understand why I am wrong about Iraq” – and then not letting him.
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