i love you, maureen dowd.
below is a portion of what the dreamiest op-ed columnist in all the land had to say today about bush's bumbling and clueless effort at assisting the people of new orleans:
"President Bush continued to try to spin his own inaction yesterday, but he may finally have reached a patch of reality beyond spin. Now he's the one drowning, unable to rescue himself by patting small black children on the head during photo-ops and making scripted attempts to appear engaged. He can keep going back down there, as he will again on Thursday when he gives a televised speech to the nation, but he can never compensate for his tragic inattention during days when so many lives could have been saved."
nice summation, but consider reading the whole article.
btw, if anybody hasn't seen the kanye comments yet, a transcript of the whole thing can be found here, and video footage of the now famous "george bush doesn't care about black people" climax can be seen here.
"President Bush continued to try to spin his own inaction yesterday, but he may finally have reached a patch of reality beyond spin. Now he's the one drowning, unable to rescue himself by patting small black children on the head during photo-ops and making scripted attempts to appear engaged. He can keep going back down there, as he will again on Thursday when he gives a televised speech to the nation, but he can never compensate for his tragic inattention during days when so many lives could have been saved."
nice summation, but consider reading the whole article.
btw, if anybody hasn't seen the kanye comments yet, a transcript of the whole thing can be found here, and video footage of the now famous "george bush doesn't care about black people" climax can be seen here.
posted by Huevos McGringo at
3:52 PM
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As of next week, the Opinions page of the New York Times online edition won't be free. It's going to be, like, $50 a year to get your Maureen Dowd fix. Booooo!
Maureen Dowd really is the best op/ed writer at NYT. She has more balls than the rest of them combined. (Although Nicholas Kristof is pretty gutsy, too -- but he's not opinion, so he doesn't count.)
Is that true about the online NYT? Oh god, I hope not.
i heart m. dowd! so annoyed that she will not be easily accessible after her saturday column.
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Maureen Dowd?
Blech. Jumps in logic, tries to be "funny," makes little sense, totally scattered, strange references and gives liberals a bad name. This, granted, was one of her better columns. But still.
She's no Frank Rich. I want to marry his writing.
you're an idiot, chris.
i'll look out for that, ghostface. it would be a treat to see the cranky one ply his genuis with jstewart.
ps- i don't really think you're an idiot.
The cranky genius was on the Daily Show again last night (might have been a re-run). It was okay.
A year and a half ago (or so) I took some quiz called "Which NYT op-ed columnist are you?" and I was Maureen Dowd.
dammit, il gato. i checked early last night on the digital cable "info" thing, and it said the daily show was having gwynneth. wish i'd known it was the cranky one.
yeah, larson was alright. He certainly wasn't his normally dishevelled self. His hair was combed and everything. And he wasn't an asshole, either. Out of the three panelists, he was by far the coolest.
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