Christopher Hitchens on Kim Jong-Il, One-Party States, and Putting the X Back in Xmas!
In this Reason.tv classic from 2007, recently deceased journalist Christopher Hitchens gives a dramatic reading of Tom Lehrer's "Christmas Song." In introducing the topic, Hitchens talks about why he doesn't like Christmas much and invokes the specter of recently deceased tyrant Kim Jong-Il of North Korea.
About 3 minutes.
Read Reason's obit for Hitchens here.
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