Firing Line
Is England Still Influencing America?
S25 • E11 May 22, 1990 60m
Taped on May 22, 1990 (New York City, NY)
Not as many fireworks as one might have expected from these two friendly antagonists--both guests being Britons who have spent much of their working lives in the United States--but an amusing look at the present state of the "special relationship." CH: "Why can't I go into a supermarket without seeing a picture of Princess Diana, whom I left England to get away from? ... If I go back to England, what do I get? McDonald's hamburgers and American nuclear bases." ... JO: "The reason why the Americans always wanted the British in the European Community was because they would represent [the Americans'] thought, the ideas of free trade and free markets, which would mean that the Community would never be closed to American goods and American capital."
Guest(s):
1) Hitchens, Christopher. - columnist for The Nation, author of Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
2) O'Sullivan, John. - Editor of National Review, former domestic-policy advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher
Moderator:
1) Kinsley, Michael E., Senior Editor at The New Republic, co-host of CNN's Crossfire
Not as many fireworks as one might have expected from these two friendly antagonists--both guests being Britons who have spent much of their working lives in the United States--but an amusing look at the present state of the "special relationship." CH: "Why can't I go into a supermarket without seeing a picture of Princess Diana, whom I left England to get away from? ... If I go back to England, what do I get? McDonald's hamburgers and American nuclear bases." ... JO: "The reason why the Americans always wanted the British in the European Community was because they would represent [the Americans'] thought, the ideas of free trade and free markets, which would mean that the Community would never be closed to American goods and American capital."
Guest(s):
1) Hitchens, Christopher. - columnist for The Nation, author of Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
2) O'Sullivan, John. - Editor of National Review, former domestic-policy advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher
Moderator:
1) Kinsley, Michael E., Senior Editor at The New Republic, co-host of CNN's Crossfire