THE LATEST BUSH-HATER

Vanity Fair’s editor, Graydon Carter, will be writing a book about the evil and iniquity of George W. Bush. Carter is not exactly a man seized by ideology (although he is a Castro-lover), so his venture into polemics is more interesting as a sign that the social elite – especially the Manhattan upper crust – now regards it as an indispensable attribute to hate the president. Carter wrote an anti-Bush editorial recently in which he mistook trillions of dollars for quadrillions. Funny enough – but a trivial cognitive error, compared to being unable to distinsguish between a liberation and an occupation.