Before the Storm: The Media Class Waits for Bob Woodward

Everyone is waiting for Bob Woodward's nuclear bomb of a next book to detonate on 60 Minutes the Sunday after next. Everyone. The right is digging fallout shelters in anticipation of a nuclear winter. Tina Brown captures the anticipatory mood marvelously:

"In this atmosphere of anticipation followed by revelation, the media classes are salivating at the prospect of investigative journalist Bob Woodward's latest tome, 'Plan of Attack.' Talk show producers I speak to are on steroids waiting for Woodward. They have always just heard from a D.C. insider who had lunch last week with a friend who ran into Woodward at the pharmacy/ grocery store/Blockbuster and reported breathlessly that 'he didn't want to say anything but I hear it's going to blow the lid off all the stuff about why we really went into Iraq/who's really making the decisions/what Powell really believes/what the real hold is that Cheney has over Bush/what Condi will never say to the 9/11 commission.'"

Salivating doesn't even begin to express it. We can't wait.