One of the reasons people like Christopher Hitchens do so well in talk show interviews is that they are utterly unintimidated by media personalities. Not that they'll get up and throw a chair at their interviewer, which has happened on some occasions on the cheesier shows, but that they'll verbally reach out and pull their interlocutors ideas out of the speech bubble, twist them into pretzels and hand them back for the whole audience to see. After this treatment , their interviewers, who are normally accustomed to controlling the discussion by and by find themselves, in spite of everything, on the wrong end of the microphone. Here's Christopher Hitchens being grilled by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Tony Jones.
Click on the link for the interview.
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