Hitchens Goes Off On Clintons, Calls Bill Hill's "Moral Tutor, The Man Who Taught Her How To Lie"

Christopher Hitchens discussed Hillary Clinton's Bosnia lie yesterday on Fox News' "Studio B with Shepard Smith" and at the end of the segment he went off on an anti-Clinton tirade.

"I wish you and your fellow people at the network would never refer to [Hillary's] husband without saying, 'the disbarred lawyer,'" Hitchens said to Smith. "Disbarred for lying under oath. The disbarred, perjured, impeached Mr. Clinton. Why is this never said? This is the man who was her moral tutor, the man who taught her how to lie, who is her main political adviser."

Watch, and note how uncomfortable Hitchens makes Shep Smith, who stays mum on Hitchens' request (the video may take a minute to load):

Comments

[realpolitic]

03:20 PM on 04/04/2008

What has Hitchens added to the debate in several years besides personal attacks? He is a loquacious, rhapsodic Ann Coulter who is becoming a parody of himself. His self-loathing makes him a dissipated Richard Burton in the making.

[not one of the sheep]

06:41 AM on 04/04/2008

Keep dodging those bullets from the snipers, name your kid "Hillary" in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary (of course forget to mention he became famous after you were born), and the list goes on and on. Party on dudes and dudettes. They say ignorance is bliss so keep on truckin' along in your blissful universe.

[Prism]

11:17 PM on 04/03/2008

Bizarre: grotesque war junkie lectures Clintons on morality of all things. His own misjudgements haunt him with each horrific report filed from journalists in Iraq. What a sad, dangerous and pathetic gasbag. He has made a virutal religion (not to mention career, such as it is) of spewing hatred in the name of "human rights". Does anyone still buy in to this pseudo intellectual gobbledegook? Hey Hitchens! Put your substantial girth where you fat mouth is and join up! Some poor stop-loss recruit on his fourth tour of duty would be mighty pleased and relieved to have you step in and lend a hand. Surely the Kurds with greet you with chocolates and flowers! I promise! Hasta la vista, Baby!

[bar1ed]

09:36 PM on 04/03/2008

old news ---- keeping your head in the past ----- when you look back, you cant see whats coming at you !

[Wigelah]

08:51 PM on 04/03/2008

What an ass. Perhaps they should always precede anything he does with "What an ass this guy is".

[verlaine]

07:38 PM on 04/03/2008

Christopher Hitchens
100% wrong about Iraq
100% correct about Hillary Clinton

[degjack]

07:15 PM on 04/03/2008

Not before they bar you, Hitchens, from t.v. for being a lout and a drunk!!!!!!!!!

Your bloated, red face and your supercilious pontificating is PAINFUL to watch!

[flip58]

07:06 PM on 04/03/2008

Clinton is a disbarred attorney. Not only did he lie under oath, but he put his friends and employees in a position where they lied also. I completely agree with Hitchens on the Clinton's lack of ethics. But considering the war crimes of Bush, where is Hitchens' outrage. Clinton lied about a blow job. Bush lied and got us into a unnecessary war. The criminal behavior of the current president makes the Clintons look pretty innocent.

[danceswithyids]

07:12 PM on 04/03/2008

He was on FOX, don't forget that they use electrical shocks on guests that portray GWB in a negative light.

[monty]

06:23 PM on 04/03/2008

Please, as if what Hitchens says matters anymore. He can take his malformed opinions and go back to worshipping his beloved Queen of England: Tony "Poodle" Blair.

[danceswithyids]

06:55 PM on 04/03/2008

You are aware the Hitch is a citizen of The United States of America.

[huffthemagicdragon]

08:25 PM on 04/05/2008

You are aware that Tony Blair is no longer the PM of GB.

[Darksider]

05:48 PM on 04/03/2008

Redlasso sucks. i can understand content owners wanting to keep control of their property but can't they find something that works better?

[fignozzle]

12:10 PM on 04/03/2008

for once i applaud hitchens!

[Marmann]

12:09 PM on 04/03/2008

LOL! Well, Hitchens can forget about being invited back to Faux News, since they're Hillary's biggest cheerleaders these days. Notice how Shep tried to shut him up?

Fox backed Bush for the last 8 years. Now they're backing Hillary. Reminds me of "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd, where two old geezers bet ONE DOLLAR to see whose manipulation of people's lives "wins," except in this case it's the life of every American that's being manipulated.

[dontshootme]

03:29 PM on 04/03/2008

Fox just wants to see a McCain-Clinton general election.

Having Hillary in the general election will offer all of the Fox pundits more to talk about and offers more entertainment value. They don't love Hillary anymore than Rush Limbaugh.

It's like the people who watch NASCAR just to watch the crashes and the people who watch hockey just for the fights. It's just lame.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

12:08 PM on 04/03/2008

Was he sober?

[oxonhoya]

10:53 AM on 04/03/2008

Hitch ought not to be anyone's moral compass BUT he's right on the Clinton foreign policy legacy in the 90s. With the exception of the Good Friday/Northern Ireland peace accords, Clinton's foreign policy was adrift and without purpose. Some of this can (and ought to be) attributed to a general post-Cold War drift, but Clintons' fear of his own military (and their dislike of him) contributed to what is, on par, a pretty dismal record. I can't remember the name of the book, but the late David Halberstam wrote a terrific, albeit journalistic, account of Clinton's foreign policy.

So instead of gloating over catching Clinton out on her lie about Tuzla, we should be asking her about the foreign policy record of the Clinton administration --- which she presumably had a hand in shaping (or so she says) and at 3 a.m. no less. Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia --- no real strategy to deal with the new wars of the 90s and really embarassing both to watch Clinton visit these places afterwards and use the quivering upper lip (better than the wagging finger, I guess) to apologize AND/OR to watch the strategically inept 'war' in Kosovo.

Still, not wonder that many of the Clinton-era foreign policy folks (Anthony Lake, Susan Rice, Bill Richardson) are on the Obama wagon.

[Rumplestiltskin]

10:23 AM on 04/03/2008

A heads up for all your folks calling Hitchens a Brit, he has been an American citizen for a while now.

[danceswithyids]

06:58 PM on 04/03/2008

Shocking that people on HuffPo make comments based purely on assumption rather than fact.