Hitchens is attempting to smear RR for dumping his first wife.
Although all evidence is that the divorce was definitely not his idea and that he may have even contemplated suicide in his despondency over it.
Yea, his career was in the crapper and she had just won the Oscar. It'd be hard to believe it was his idea..
I mean, for Hitchens to suggest that being "the man to see" is suggestive of his "meanness" is typical lefty talk. On the one hand, he writes of Iraq and Clinton corruption with (what I see as ) rationality, and then its back to Mother Jones class warfare. Inscrutable.