Christopher Hitchens edited the Nation?

[vi5]

I really have never particularly paid attention to this guy, but honestly, was his lame conservative-apologist conversion an overnight thing or was it sneaking up on him when he worked for the Nation? I know he resigned when after 9/11 people dared to point out that perhaps despite that tragedy that there needed to be some reallignment of our foreign policy, but was that pretty much all that set this goofball off? I haven't really read The Nation in quite a few years, even pre-9/11 so I'm curious.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Not that I recall

He used to write editorials.

Most of the lefties I knew liked his writing style.

--bkl

[burythehatchet]

2. he's a drunk opportunist who learned that he could get a lot more

face time and money by playing with the Thugs.

[izzie]

3. That is hard to believe.

A lot of those Op-ed type do go where the money is. The Nation would not be that. They do like Tucker Carson and get real nasty when the pay will be good, for doing it. I am sure Dem do the same. I think they just like to have their heads on TV and do not think to much.

[Bridget Burke]

4. He wrote a column in the Nation.

He was billed as a contrarian, but some of his work was good. Unlike so many of the conservative mouthpieces who are talentless dweebs, he actually could write. But he found out the other side pays better.