If you don't like the article, Rig:

1)   What exactly in the excerpt you chose do you think is not true?

2)   Vanity Fair, as you might possibly be able to figure out from the title, does not purport to be an objective political journal--if there is such an animal. Also, any yahoo who wants to drop the names of Thomas Wolfe,   Dorothy Parker, etc. should be prepared to tell us how objective the articles by Dorothy Parker and Thomas Wolfe were.   It's even possible that both in the case of the earlier writers, and the current article, one of the goals was-- (gasp)-- entertainment.