Vanity Fair Hit By Tsunami – Did It Come From Wasilla?

This from The New York Post:

VANITY Fair yesterday took some of the deepest staff cuts at Condé Nast, but Editor Graydon Carter didn't deliver the bad news himself.

Although Carter was said to have been at his restaurant, The Monkey Bar, Wednesday night, he was a no show in the office yesterday because he had jetted off on a vacation yesterday morning.

Vanity Fair's layoffs were said to be in the double-digit range, and hit as high as senior editors and as low as fact checkers, and were deep, in part, because Carter largely ignored the edict to chop 5 percent late last year.

Sorry, I know one shouldn’t celebrate over another’s misfortune – but if I had been a fly on the wall at the Vanity Fair offices I would be grinning like...well, like a fly on a wall with a big grin. I would also be willing to bet a considerable proportion of my meagre teacher’s pension (gruel, anyone?) that in a house somewhere north of British Columbia as the coffee percolates and the eggs fry a tick will be placed against one item on a list held against the refrigerator door with a Margaret Thatcher magnet.

Unfortunately the mongoose was not able to get to VF editor Graydon Carter before he lowered his elegant posterior into the comforting embrace of a first class seat en route to the Bahamas or wherever it is that the radical chic go these days to recover from the strain and stress of fighting for the poor and disadvantaged.

One would hope that Mr Carter will at least feel a little guilty about his own role in helping to bring about this tsunami. His lack of leadership and failure to be willing to adapt to a changed environment are now on public display. How ironic that this should happen to a man so ready to use his magazine as a platform to demonise and demean Governor Palin and to characterise her as an empty headed ingénue whose organisational skills were limited to rearranging the contents of her wardrobe.

William Shakespeare himself would have savoured the moment

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.

BTW #1.......”fact checkers”...at Vanity Fair? They must have been too busy investigating Obama’s odd relationship with the Strogers of Cook County to fact check Todd Purdum’s strangely timed hit piece on Governor Palin published earlier this year....

BTW #2......I am joking about Vanity Fair investigating Obama's Chicago links - pigs flying would be more likely....