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In an April 2009 interview with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, Hitchens intimated that his friendship with Cockburn was still intact despite their disagreements.

Hitchens mentioned that he had recently attended a Cockburn family wedding in which Alexander officiated, and that he and Cockburn used to see each other more frequently when they had both lived on the same coast of the United States.

In the same interview, Lamb and Hitchens discussed Cockburn's scathing remarks about Hitchens criticisms of Said and Sheehan.

Hitchens felt the intervening years had justified his criticisms of Sheehan, and expressed that " it's beneath Alexander to be defending someone as cheap and demagogic as her ".

In the case of Hitchens ' criticisms of Said on his death bed, Hitchens replied, " It's actually rather silly of Alexander to say that ... he's often written counter-obituaries of people who have been overpraised and has chosen precisely the moment when there's a lot of sentimental garbage being published to say, ' come on, this guy wasn't so great!

' " Following Hitchens ' death in 2011, Cockburn wrote a critical obituary of him for Counterpunch.