1. Christopher Hitchens appears on the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show

Comment #97396 by dan w. on December 12, 2007 at 2:50 am

Conrad: "The host, an informed man apparently, is yet naive as a child about the importance of being a Bishop and the actual ties this entails."

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Hewitt has written an entire book shilling for Romney's presidential bid, with the word Mormon in the title in big letters. ( http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-White-House-Things-American/dp/159698502X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197456071&sr=8-1 )

Now I haven't read the book, obviously, but the description on Amazon seems to indicate that the entire purpose of the book is to convince Republicans to vote for what Hewitt feels is obviously a near-perfect candidate, whose only flaw is his Mormonism. That Hewitt would write a whole book with this as his purported subject and appear not to know important details about Romney and/or the Mormon church either reveals him as stupid, ignorant, or dishonest (perhaps a combination of more than one).

In the Hitchens interview here, Hewitt seems to indicate that he is of the opinion that asking tough questions to people who want to lead our country is somehow a harmful, anti-American concept.

2. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Comment #88579 by dan w. on November 17, 2007 at 11:51 pm

"PASTOR RAY MUMMERT: Teaching the traditional evolutionary Darwinian concept that man evolved from lower forms of life, that's almost a slap in my face. That takes the dignity away from humanity as far as I'm concerned what gives dignity to man is that every one of us are made in the image of God. He is the creator. And he created the world with intention and with design. It upsets me deeply that now in our educational system we are indoctrinating our young people to think differently about humanity."

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It would take this guy months to understand how anyone could view that statement as hypocritical.