SHAFER VERSUS WOLFF

This isn’t a fair fight. Michael Wolff is one of the least pleasant charlatans ever to slither up the liberal New York media ladder. I’ve only met the Gollum of Gotham once, for an interview. The column that resulted was one of the laziest, least ethical piece of tripe ever written about me (and included a quote Wolff subsequently admitted he had deliberately distorted). Anyone who accuses Jack Shafer of being humorless is by definition someone who has never read Jack Shafer. But then Wolff does write for Vanity Fair. It doesn’t get much lower than that. (I might add that New York magazine has become infinitely better since Wolff stopped driveling on in it.)