Maureen Dowd: Love for Sale

[PA Democrat]

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I still have many Christmas bills to pay. So I'd like to send a message to the administration: THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. I could write about the strong dollar and the shrinking deficit. Or defend Torture Boy, I mean, the esteemed and sage Alberto Gonzales. Or remind readers of the terrific job Condi Rice did coordinating national security before 9/11 - who could have interpreted a memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" as a credible threat? - not to mention her indefatigable energy obscuring information undercutting the vice president's dementia on Iraq.

My preference is to get a contract with Rummy. It would be cost effective, compared with the latest $80 billion he needs to train more Iraqi security forces to be blown up. For half a mil, I could write a doozy of a column promoting Rummy's phantasmagoric policies.

What is all this hand-wringing about the 31 marines who died in a helicopter crash in Iraq yesterday? It's only slightly more than the number of people who died in traffic accidents in California last Memorial Day. The president set the right tone, avoiding pathos when asked about the crash. "Obviously," he said, "any time we lose life it is a sad moment."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/opinion/27dowd.html?hp

[Demit]

1. When Mo hits the right scathing note, she really hits it.

Bush's demeanor when he made that "any time we lose life" statement was so transparently dismissive. Another "oh, shit, I have to feign sorrow again" moment for the little sadist. It had to be obvious to everyone in that room, and it came across loud and clear over the television set. What a contemptible man.

[starroute]

7. Any time Bush says, "obviously," he's faking it

I don't have an explicit list, but this is something I've noticed over and over. It isn't even so much the outright lies he prefixes with "obviously" as it is the points at which he's pretending to have knowledge or emotions or anything else that normal human beings have and he doesn't.

[Demeter]

2. Maybe Now That The Practice of Buying Favorable Press Has Been

revealed, the media will find it expedient to criticise BushCo and print those pesky little unfavorable facts they've skimmed over, just to prove they aren't on the take.


Nah...who would believe they'd be smart enough to do that, or have enough integrity to care?

[PA Democrat]

3. We can only hope

but I am not optimistic. Did you happen to hear this question that one "journalist" asked Bush yesterday?


"Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you said you're going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050126-3.html

[DinahMoeHum]

4. LMAO !! "Love For Sale" - Cole Porter (sung by Billie Holliday)

verrrrry apropos. An ode to whoredom.

Link:
http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/love-for-sale.htm

When the only sound in the empty street,
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
I open shop.
When the moon so long has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town.
That her smile becomes a smirk,
I go to work.

Love for sale,
Appetising young love for sale.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,
Love that's only slightly soiled,
Love for sale.
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price,
For a trip to paradise?
Love for sale
Let the poets pipe of love
in their childish way,
I know every type of love
Better far than they.
If you want the thrill of love,
I've been through the mill of love;
Old love, new love
Every love but true love
Love for sale.

Appetising young love for sale.
If you want to buy my wares.
Follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale.
Love for sale.

- Cole Porter


:evilgrin:

[kris10ep]

5. Pure genuis...

I can't even tell you how much I love reading Maureen Dowd's columns. Pure journalistic genius is what it is.

If you haven't read "Bushworld" yet, go buy a copy today.

[realFedUp]

6. Actually many are bought anyway...

The owner of a newspaper can certainly
push his or her agenda through columnists
and the carrot is a job with benefits.

[PA Democrat]

8. Very true

I had an interesting conversation with someone who worked for one of Richard Mellon Scaife's publications. This person told me that any reporter who dared not follow the directive to report from the right was GONE. Any reporter who voiced a "liberal" point of view was GONE.

[katinmn]

9. Maureen Dowd: Boy, is she angry! Excellent editorial

[rodeodance]

10. I forget I was angry at her for dissing Kerry--oh well,