Based on his comments to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on the day of the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s death, it looks like author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens (pictured) will have to wait a while to be invited back into President Bush’s inner circle. Hitchens channeled his disdain for religion and for Falwell into one scathing send-off on Cooper’s show.


Radar Online:

Newly naturalized Christopher Hitchens did his version of a homily for the Rev. Jerry Falwell on last night’s Anderson Cooper 360. Joining Cooper from Raleigh, N.C., the atheist author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything figuratively boogied on Falwell’s barely cold corpse.

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