Comments on: The Devil And The Drunk-Tank Creep

By: TAG

TAG — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:12:21 +0000

I posted my rough notes and comments of the debate on my blog. You can click the name above to see it. (Oct. 23.)

By: mds

mds — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:54:08 +0000

Bonus stupid: D’Souza uses the tail end of his written frottage of Hitchens to defend Anselm’s ontological argument.

Wait, he's defending a "logical" argument for the existence of God that Thomas Aquinas thought was rot? Sheesh, D'Souza better not ever try that one out on any educated Roman Catholics.

I believe it was actually Laura Ingraham whom he dated,

Both Ingraham and Coulter, actually. The man certainly seems to find vicious swine of low intelligence irresistible. I'm surprised he can tear himself away from mirrors.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:13:12 +0000

“Debating” religion. Feh. These guys have been thinking Deep Thoughts about religion for a long time now. For true excitement, we should make them compete at something they’ve never done before, like swim across a river infested with hungry crocodiles.

By: MrWonderful

MrWonderful — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:22:32 +0000

I’m with Me.

(I’ve been waiting all my life to write that.)

I read Hitchens’ book and it made me like him again. The worst part of this debate will be the fact that D’Souza, like everyone on his “team,” has no regard for the truth. He’ll blandly spout his talking points and drive Hitchens crazy with his bad faith.

Hitchens, for all his wrongheadedness on Iraq, is a clear debater and is willing to talk in good faith, at least as far as I could see when he debated Al Sharpton on CNN two months ago.

Also, D’Souza’s book is apparently called What’s So Great About Christianity.

I wish I’d thought of that as a gag title.

By: Trilateral Chairman

Trilateral Chairman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:12:12 +0000

Well, Stephen Colbert made an ass out of D’Souza.

Yes, and everyone else has made an ass of him too. Here’s how I see this debate going down:

* Hitchens makes an ass out of D’Souza; and, at the very same time,
* Hitchens makes an ass out of himself.

Don’t look so surprised. It is, after all, Hitch’s greatest talent.

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:52:16 +0000

Dinesh used to date Ann Coulter, which, depending on your perspective, should make you feel either less sorry for him or more sorry for him.

I believe it was actually Laura Ingraham whom he dated, when they were both students at Dartmouth.

By: atheist

atheist — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:50:13 +0000

Both Dinesh D’Souza and Ramesh Ponnuru are disgrace to Indians

Interesting. Pretty much how I feel about Hitchens.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:36:56 +0000

As a philosophical subject, ontology chiefly deals with the precise utilization of words as descriptors of entities or realities.–Wikipedia

Bonus stupid: D’Souza uses the tail end of his written frottage of Hitchens to defend Anselm’s ontological argument.

DINESH TYPES FURIOUSLY….

This car is a lemmon.
Lemmons are yellow.
QED: This car is yellow.

By: cowalker

cowalker — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:28:56 +0000

Well, Stephen Colbert made an ass out of D’Souza.
Colbert agrees with D’Souza that liberals caused 9/11

I suspect Hitchens (unless someone spikes his miniatures with embalming fluid) will find D’Souza easy pickings. But he doesn’t deserve it.

By: cowalker

cowalker — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:14:26 +0000

t4toby, your link to Hitchens exploiting his role in causing a young person to die in Iraq failed to amuse me. In fact, it made me want to cry and also throttle the life out of "Chris." Well done.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:49:38 +0000

Ohmygod, I finally get it! Hitchens hates Muslims because the Koran proscribes alcohol!

By: tb

tb — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:42:43 +0000

Goh- wha? She also "dated" Jimmy Walker!

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:36:51 +0000

That hot, sweet wingnut secks with the deer urine, the skill saw and aunt beatrice’s galoshes. Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it, bay-bee….

mikey

By: tb

tb — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:33:29 +0000

Dinesh used to date Ann Coulter,

Ech, that is so fuckin’ foul. Take a second and think about what the sex must have been like.

By: christian h.

christian h. — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:12:15 +0000

Please let it be on C-SPAN, please let it be on C-SPAN…

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:59:12 +0000

I read a Hindu story once about this atheist who hated God. Really hated God and always cursing him. After death he achieved release from rebirth (the big goal of Hinduism). The reason was he was obsessed with God, even if it was in a negative way, and that can be a form a worship.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:45:32 +0000

“a BIT mad”?

That’s like saying the Grand Canyon is a bit of a traffic obstacle.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:45:07 +0000

“Yeah. I talk like that because I’m British. We’re the only people on earth who can say ‘pusillanimous’ after fifteen whiskeys.”

You watch Hotforwords on youtube, too, eh?

By: Mona

Mona — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:43:20 +0000

Jillian: Hitchens may be a lot of things, but hater of “brown people” is not one of them. He’s long been close friends with Salman Rushdie and became totally freaked when the Iranian ayatollah put a fatwa/bounty on Rushdie’s head. I think it actually sent him a bit mad.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:27:32 +0000

“Dinesh used to date Ann Coulter, which, depending on your perspective, should make you feel either less sorry for him or more sorry for him.”

That proves that if there is a god she’s a complete and utter bastard.

Seriously great dialogue, maybe they can get aayan to joing them as hitch’s sex object.