The story asserted that Barbra Streisand had advanced a "paranoid conspiracy theory" in respect to the tragic air crash that took the lives of Paul Wellstone and seven others. Nothing could be further from the truth, but Johnson went on to offer the similarly ridiculous lie that Ms. Streisand had presented this idea in a letter to "an audience of interior designers bidding on a chance to decorate" her new addition.
I can see why Babs was so angry. They were plastic surgeons not interior designers.
And it wasn't a "paranoid conspiracy theory" to cross-eyed Babs, but a sensible axiom.
Another example of what P.J. O'Rourke has termed "the idiot famous".