Here, in all its salacious detail, is the latest scandal to hit the pages of Vanity Fair regarding this generation’s Clair Booth Luce and all her powerful friends, associates and their alliances and, most definitely, their falling outs. It a tale loaded with what V.F. does so very well, the current and past business and personal entanglements of the progressive branch of the American Elite. Movie stars, prominent Hollywood bigwigs, and of course the pseudo-intellectuals and political hacks and pretenders that now lay claim to the territory of the ‘progressive blogusphere’. All done in up in the rhetorical puffery made famous by V.F., under the able and always fawning courtier Mr. Carter.

This tale is all about taking credit for ‘inventing’ the Huffington Post and it is filled with big names, in fact, name dropping is the most necessary part of the story. Every proper noun is followed by some quick sketch of personal qualification, such as school attended or business owned,operated or some relationship with a name in Politics or Business or Entertainment. Very inside stuff: told in the breathless style of a bodice ripper.This is Melodrama garnished with Celebrities and Big Names and all in Capital Letters.