Reply #14: see below from the Hitches' web site [View All]

"On television, Hitchens sometimes appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Charlie Rose, Uncommon Knowledge, The Chris Matthews Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CSPAN's Washington Journal."
and see the folloeing of several transcripts on the Hardball web site
CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: Today on THE CHRIS MATTHEWS SHOW: Saddam's sadistic sons. They lived as bullies and died in a hail of American bullets this week. The big question: do their deaths bring us closer to the big prize, Saddam himself? And can we expect some revenge killings of our soldiers? That's just one of the key issues our journalist roundtable will get at on today's show.
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Announcer: This is THE CHRIS MATTHEWS SHOW.

MATTHEWS: Hi, I'm Chris Matthews, welcome to the show. Let's go inside.


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Profile: Jack Germond, Baltimore Sun; Katty Kay, BBC; John Dickerson, Time magazine and Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair talk with Matthews about Iraq, election, and Seabiscuit
CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: Jack Germond is the legendary political writer for the Baltimore Sun. Katty Kay covers Washington for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Christopher Hitchens writes for Vanity Fair magazine and is just back from Iraq. His book on Iraq is called, "A Long Short War." And John Dickerson keeps tabs on things at the White House for Time magazine.

Let me go to Christopher Hitchens.

You were there.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS (Vanity Fair): I was. Thanks.

MATTHEWS: You just missed the capture; rather, the killing of Uday and Qusay. What did that feel like?

Mr. HITCHENS: I was – I was – I was going to tell you that. But you can tell me, if you like. Yes, I managed to leave 12 hours too soon. So – but that hasn't made me any less of an expert.

MATTHEWS: Tell me about the killing and what it means over there. Is this going to take the heart out of the opposition or is this going to stir them more?

Mr. HITCHENS: It's more important, I think, that it puts heart into Iraqis who hated the regime and who really want to irradicate it completely. It's – but the morale effect is more important on that side. On the other side it's basically mercenaries who've been paid by the enormous stolen monies of – of Iraq that was ripped off just before the Americans arrived, and by imported Jihad fanatics who've kind of fused within the Baath party. All the propaganda now.

MATTHEWS: We're losing a GI about a day over there. Who's doing the killing? Who are the people behind the guns?

Mr. HITCHENS: For $1,000 you can hire some lump and kid, to – by the – use a throw-away weapon, do a pot-shot and walk away or roll a grenade. That's where a lot of it's coming from. They'll try to intensify it obviously because they're desperate. They – they – they always go for the success stories. They've – they try to stop university from being opened by shooting an American on the campus there; it – it opened. They tried to blow up the oil wells in the north; the oil wells are now pumping in $1 million a day. They can't bare to see anything successful.

and this http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/hiball.htm