This interview with Rick Hertzberg...

...gets a lot more interesting in the second half, when they start lambasting Bush and talking about Leon W.'s awful review in the NYTBR. All of it's quite "inside baseball," but those of you interested in politics and publishing might enjoy what he has to say. Here's Rick H. on Bush: "Bush II is much more of a tool [than Reagan was; Bush II] is manipulated through oedipal signals. He is a reformed alcoholic who is interested in a certain kind of one-dimensional religiosity that he has transferred from the AA level of religiosity and made that his model of world politics. And he is determined to show up his father, show that he is as good as or better than his father is, and he is easily manipulated through these two factors. He doesn’t have any real political beliefs. He is somebody who was really not interested in politics, if he is now. I think he is not particularly interested in politics even now.