>Was Hitchens pushed or did he jump from the Nation? It was obviously a case
>of both, as the immediate excommunication he suffered shows.
Excommunication? By whom? Almost everyone on the Nation masthead except Alexander "Dwarf Tosser" Cockburn was sad to see him go. He was never in the least censored, either. Hitchens is the one who's being nasty to his former colleagues and comrades. I've invited him to be on the radio several times, but he doesn't answer my emails anymore.
Doug