Vanity Fair Praises Narcissism

A gay old blade who writes for Vanity Fair quotes another Bassett-Hound lookalike, Jurek Martin, [misspelling said rabid Basset-face's name "Jerek"], who has a column every other fortnight in the weekend Financial Times. Martin is an over-the-hill poseur who pretends to follow American sports while making the usual Brit mistakes [calling a baseball manager a "coach" if my recollection serves me well].

Easy to see why dyslexic Wolcott admires Martin, both being prone to hilarious misstatements or distorting exaggerations. Martin blames the neo-cons for the current Lebanon and Palestine imbroglio, and Wolcott echoes the Hezbollywood take on these matters.....

Wolcott's link above concerns the self-concern of his own kind at Vanity Fair and its clientele of egomaniacs on the left---who make Mel Gibson's recent outburst seem a solitary contrarian bleat in the silent tinseltown precincts on the right. Read the Pufferbellies at the Hysteric HuffPost for the daily dose of derangement on the left.

But the lefties hate it, just get all riled up, when all that is wrong is Bush yadda yadda yadda, gets thrown back into the psychos' faces when the rightist shrinks equate leftists' chronic autistic tropes with "narcissism," a word self-referential narcissists on the left seem to especially recoil from.

The Jurek [Walcott, please note spelling] article is offline, but the Walcott reaction makes relevant the old line: "Methinks the lady doth protest too much!"