DOWD, AGAIN

Ya’ gotta love Maureen Dowd. Actually, you don’t. She’s a raving (what Mrs. Reagan calls a “rhymes with witch”) who is willing to lie to bash Republicans. She lies with impunity and with tacit approval from her employer, the only people willing to give her a paycheck, the “paper of record”, all the news fit to print, The New York Times.

Anyway, in today’s fair and balanced editorial (ha ha ha ha ), she thinks we have become too macho, too manly, not sensitive enough. The main object of her ire is, shockingly, George Bush.

“On the men's round-table, David Gutmann, a professor emeritus of psychology at Northwestern, notes that Mr. Bush "bears important masculine stigmata: he is a Texan, he is not afraid of war, and he sticks to his guns in the face of a worldwide storm of criticism.

Stigmata, schtigmata. Shouldn't real men be able to control their puppets? The Bush team could not even get Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraq Governing Council to condemn the U.N. bombing or feign putting an Iraqi face on the occupation. The puppets refused because they didn't want to be seen as puppets.”

Ignoring Dowd’s obvious jealousy of Bush being a real man and her inability to get one, let’s check out an interesting statement here. She spends the whole column belittling the “real man”-ness of George Bush and then switches gears completely to belittle him for not being able to control his “puppets”. Am I the only one who can see Dowd slamming Bush for having “puppets” who do his will if they condemned the bombing? Dowd has set up a situation in which George Bush could do no right and then condemned him for being wrong. This can only mean Dowd's hatred of Bush is so vast he could never do anything to please her and therefore, her views are irrelevant at best. Because the Times keeps this “rhymes with witch” on says an awful lot about the integrity of Jayson Blair’s protectors.