The King's Speech is riddled with gross falsifications of history.
By Christopher Hitchens
"The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer and the latent Anglophile. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history."
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
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Churchill Didn't Say That
January 24, 2011Posted by Tom at 20:15 1 comments
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Churchill Didn't Say That, Slate
Q&A with Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens talks to Brian Lamb about his cancer, treatments, Tony Blair, Pakistan, religion, Kissinger..
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http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1322
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Labels: 2011, Brian Lamb, c-span, Christopher Hitchens, interview, q and a
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