Daily Hitchens

Why I haven't ventured to this website before is unknown. The enigmatic maintainer of the Daily Hitchens, the so-called, Tom, appears to have archives of Hitchens videos ranging from the late eighties to the present. How they have come into his possession, why he has them, and how they are so easily dissected and uploaded to YouTube DAILY, all remain to be answered. Nevertheless, it is a wonderful site, growing every day, almost to the point where any other Hitch devotee will have a hard time matching Tom's accomplishments. Click the link above and you'll quickly know what I mean. Today's video is notable in it's own right (and not just because this happens to be the day I post about it). For a Channel 4 documentary entitled, The Bible: A History, the saturatingly stupid Anne Widdecombe pours her morose and gratingly irritating voice over images of our beloved Hitch and sidekick, Stephen Fry. It seems an interview was conducted by Widdecombe following the Intelligence Squared debate that I wrote about at the time, with the view to splicing it into her program, which she does very sparingly, falling short of sustaining the illusion of non-bias. I can sense you becoming excited already, dear reader, and adding the Daily Hitchens to your Favourites, but there's more; an increasingly frustrated Hitchens walks out of the interview with Widdecombe, forgetting his signature charm and good-humour. It's quite clear that the interview was over and, typically, Hitch was determined to have the last word. His playful smile was extinguished by the void between Widdecombe's ears, and it's no surprise that he got out as soon as he could and let Fry take the reigns. Necessary viewing, not once, but again and again.