Christopher Hitchens covers the 1992 US Presidential Election
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- From the BBC foreign affairs documentary strand Assignment.
Come Home, America.
Christopher Hitchens covers the developments in a campaign fraught for all sides, interviews the key players and develops a commentary that probably is more relevant today than in 1992 - though if he were still alive would he be making the same points?
Willie Horton, Anita Hill, Bush throwing up on the Japanese PM's shoes...it's all here, along with the new generation of feminists shaking up congress like ..er... Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.
"In the American presidential election campaign, the once odds-on favourite George Bush is fighting for survival while his principal challenger Bill Clinton is hounded by scandal. Gulf War euphoria has turned into despair over the Los Angeles riots, and the ailing economy is not responding to strong medicine. Christopher Hitchens examines democracy in America. Producer Elaine Bedell Editor John Morrison"
First broadcast Tue 3rd Nov 1992, 19:45 on BBC Two England
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Carville as thuggish. That’s perfect!
39:45 is pretty creepy how James’s presentation totally switches from faux-friendly to aggressive
The brilliant Hitch; sorely missed.
Great find "Lost in translation " ...I thought I'd seen everything on christopher Hitchens! Thank you for uploading this gem 💎 ✨ 💖
Stay tuned - I have another little gem from an immediate post election discussion from Clinton's victory
I search Christopher Hitchens by Upload Date every few days. Thank you for this.
@@allrise3056 My pleasure - as I say above stay tuned for at least one more upload from 1992 - probably in the next few weeks!
The USA literally hasn't really changed in 30 years. It's like being stuck in a time loop.
well the divide between the rich and the poor has gotten worse,
private interests have more power.
but yeah same trend I guess.
That's a fucking stupid thing to say man, and you damn well know it.
There's a terrible irony in what you say as well, given someone in every decade for what rapidly approaches a century has been fatuous enough to say something exactly as stagnant and pitiful.
Always more hitch to find. Sifting through youtube looking for gold!
or you know, pick up a book
@@jodawgsup or you know, do both 👍.
You're here too bud
Thanks for uploading this, good find. (and lol at Sony guy)
Never seen this before! Thanks so much.
goes to show that things have been the same longer than we think
That is what I thought, rinse and repeat.
Great find. Thank you.
Just 2 mins in and have to say really looking forward to this documentary. New to Hitchens. Bill Clinton is my favourite president of my time and love any insight into the great man
Reading this comment and knowing Hitch's thoughts on Clinton, just makes me wish you did a reaction video to his content 🤣🤣🤣
@@thekidd7 Upon reflection of not just this documentary, but studying additional work by Hitchens..I’ve decided Bill Clinton, Mother Theresa, Jesus, Mohammed and Henry Kissinger aren’t the people I once thought they were.
Revelations regarding Jesus and Henry Kissinger were my biggest disappointments.
They say never meet your idols, I say never read anything Hitchens writes about them!!😔
ty.
2021: Has anything changed?
exactly - if not worsened
Demographics have changed, and the divide increased.
I hope everyone now realizes thst not ventilating Perot and his ideas directly led to Trump.
Jeesh. Substitute perot with Trump and its 2016.
Lololol 14:14 Is that Bill Cosby in the back? Hitch and everyone else was standing so close to him, so similar to Epstein. What a great time capsule, uploader.
You're welcome !
The guy at 15:41 was right
Strange how someone so articulate was not a very good narrator
Huh