Hitchens' mumbling belies the impact of his statements that, if you can catch them, are much more incisive than Dinesh's ramblings. However, it doesn't make for great debate as the louder and more flamboyant you appear, the greater your impact. This phenomenon has been recently explored by Al Gore in his book 'The Assault on Reason'.
For those who cannot access the debate through the link provided due to a hitch in RealPlayer, someone has thoughtfully uploaded it to YouTube in 10 installments accessed by this link to the first part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05P9gO5Hkg For those unable or unwilling to view the debate, there is a synopsis with comments on http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2007/10/hitchens-vs-dsouza-finally-tough-debate.html or http://tinyurl.com/3a6ls5 if GoaNet kills the link. Don't forget to read some of the comments linked to that blog. Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. ======================== Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:53:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dinesh enthralled the otherwise liberal crowd of >college students who naturally tended to be inclined >to the 'ills of religion' and the atheistic views of >Christopher. > Everybody can watch this debate at the following link and decide its worth for themselves: http://www.tkc.edu/debate/ To me it seems pretty lame. Full of inane platitudes.
