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It was the Left that prematurely pronounced the death of irony 20 years ago:“In the dark days after September 11, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter famously declared: ‘I think it's the end of the age of irony.’”They have spent the intervening two decades disproving their own thesis. Take, for example, that old skinhead, snake-faced Clinton apologist James Carville. The man with one of the most punchable faces in America…tells his podcast audience (all 25 of them) that he’d like to punch unvaxxed people in the face."I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability...

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Christoper Hitchens and Graydon Carter on Tim Russert Show @ 10PM PT Tonight(re-broadcast) Russert interviews Graydon Carter who has a new book out, "What we've lost" and Christoper Hitchens.

Sunday, 10-16-04, the Tim Russert TV show on CNBC, 7:00 EDT, cable television news. Guests are Graydon Carter, Editor for Vanity Fair, and Christopher Hitchens, a contributing journalist. Carter is parroting Kerry's campaign speech words, or vice-a-versa. Hitchens is trying to sound reasonable and balanced. Tim Russert is trying to sound impartial. One interesting note came out of this program that basically is a rehash of all we've heard before. That is, Christopher Hitchens makes the case that, Blair and Bush actually did take all the right legal steps, do all of the necessary diplomacy, with the UN. The two...

WEB UPDATE: Graydon Carter targeted by Republican attack dogs . . . and other comediesby Nikki Finke Let us set the fantasy sequence for you: Karl Rove is determined to destroy the reputation of an anti-Bush crusader who’s a high-profile Hollywood insider. The White House dispatches a Republican operative to disseminate dirt to the Los Angeles Times about the hero. Suddenly, there’s a media frenzy to "get" our guy. Alarmed, the Bush basher meets on Monday with three of the best media minds in the country, one of whom wants him to hire a crisis manager to repel Rove’s rapacious...

Graydon Carter’s War The Mind of a Great Editor Is a Terrible Thing To Waste By RUSS SMITH Mr. Smith writes weekly columns for New York Press and Baltimore’s City Paper. I wonder when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is going to wake up from his increasingly public nightmare. Mr. Carter, a charming and intelligent man, has clearly not come to grips with the stark reality, as Spy magazine would’ve said 15 years ago, that the go-go 1990s are over and the gaudy colors that washed over that decade have given way to black and white. In fact, Mr. Carter’s...

How King of New York took battle to the Great Polariser Graydon Carter is one of the biggest names in US magazines. Now Vanity Fair's editor is gunning for George Bush Joanna Walters in New York Sunday December 7, 2003 The Observer He has been hailed as the King Of New York. With his charming manners and ability to make or break celebrities, Graydon Carter is to the magazine world what Jay Leno is to the American talk show - powerbroker to the formerly, currently and would-be famous. Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, was portrayed by some as a...

He has been hailed as the King Of New York. With his charming manners and ability to make or break celebrities, Graydon Carter is to the magazine world what Jay Leno is to the American talk show - powerbroker to the formerly, currently and would-be famous.