Tina Brown Is Smoking Crack

If anyone needed an editor (preferably Jim Capozzola), it's Tina Brown. Her most recent issue combines her usual bad writing (which is Noonanesque in style, though not in worldview) with what is almost certainly delusional thinking:

In this atmosphere of anticipation followed by revelation, the media classes are salivating at the prospect of investigative journalist Bob Woodward's latest tome, "Plan of Attack." Talk show producers I speak to are on steroids waiting for Woodward. They have always just heard from a D.C. insider who had lunch last week with a friend who ran into Woodward at the pharmacy/ grocery store/Blockbuster and reported breathlessly that "he didn't want to say anything but I hear it's going to blow the lid off all the stuff about why we really went into Iraq/who's really making the decisions/what Powell really believes/what the real hold is that Cheney has over Bush/what Condi will never say to the 9/11 commission."

Talk show producers "are on steroids waiting for" something? They "have always just heard from?" (And this: "'It's harder for the White House to manage the author's process than it is the reporter's process,' Ron Suskind, author of the O'Neill bestseller 'The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill,' told me. " Who is the book about, Tina? I didn't catch that.)

And does Brown really believe that the author of Bush at War is set to expose "what the real hold is that Cheney has over Bush?"