{"id":4493,"date":"2007-05-01T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2007-05-02T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:27:02","slug":"video-american-citizenship-doesnt-change-hitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4493","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Christopher Hitchens Summons Security, Repeatedly Calls Questioner &#8216;Fascist Crackpot&#8217; During Bizarre L.A. Book Event Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/veekHo8krOM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\"><\/embed>Newly minted American citizen Christopher Hitchens does little to dispel the commonly held opinion that he is a snobbish, condescending, hypocrite in this video snippet from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/festivalofbooks\/\"><em>L.A. Times<\/em> Festival of Books<\/a> held over the weekend. In the video, a ballistic Hitchens, who became an American citizen on April 13th, repeatedly calls for security to throw a man out of the panel discussion on religion &#038; culture.<\/p>\n<p>While the video does not show what sets Hitchens off, <a href=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=255\">according to Luke Ford<\/a> (who is seen asking the prior question) the episode began when the audience member attempted to question Hitchens about the US government&#8217;s role in 9\/11. Strangely, Hitchens repeatedly calls the questioner a &#8220;fascist crackpot&#8221; while having him restrained, muzzled and eventually tossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Newly minted American citizen Christopher Hitchens does little to dispel the commonly held opinion that he is a snobbish, condescending, hypocrite in this video snippet from the L.A. Times Festival of Books held over the weekend. In the video, a ballistic Hitchens, who became an American citizen on April 13th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}