Remember NYT Frank Bruni, whose W-love in 2000 oozed off the page?

[DeepModem Mom]

Bruni covered the Bush campaign for the Times, became enamored of him, and helped pave the way for the disaster that has been the Bush administration. Just a reminder of what he's doing for the Times now:

Restaurant Review
Tradition Two Ways: Plain or Fancy
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: September 21, 2005

IF you want to make the acquaintance of your dinner just before you ingest it, Oriental Garden is your place. In stacks of tanks flanking the entrance of this Chinatown mainstay, crabs crawl, sea bass swim and clams loll about, for want of an even less kinetic verb.

But the presentation winds up seeming less theatrical than practical, less like an aquarium of incipient deliciousness than an unadorned aquatic larder, even a floating gallows. The tanks are drearily overcrowded and the room beyond them distressingly over-bright.

Uptown, at the new restaurant Mainland, what draws your eye almost immediately after you walk through the door are picturesque bundles of firewood and, above them, a glass-fronted oven in which whole ducks are cooked.

This display is all about appetite-whetting beauty. The birds glisten like amber jewels, and the setting for their consumption includes soft lighting, spacious semicircular booths and the kind of lounge music that seems designed to induce a trance. You can wash your duck down with specially named cocktails like the Yangtze Sigh. You can follow it up with a white chocolate macadamia pot du crème....

http://events.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/dining/reviews/21rest.html?8hpib&oref=login

[soleft]

1. What about the guy Cheney and Bush called an asshole

Adam Klymer? Was that his name?

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Clymer retired in 2003. Here's an article --

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Features/CapitalLiving/021705_clymer.html

[Cha]

9. Thanks, DMM! clymer doesn't

sound like he had a clue what an honor that was..oh well, Not everyone gets it, do they?

[Cha]

5. adam clymer?

http://slate.msn.com/id/1005996/

I haven't heard much from him lately.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. See post #4, zidzi. nt

[TheDebbieDee]

2. He's now a restaurant critc?!?!?!?!?

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[highplainsdem]

3. I see Bruni's now concerning himself with the "important" things in life

in this new robber-baron era he helped bring about.
:puke:

[KharmaTrain]

7. NYTimes 2010: Judy Miller's Film Reviews

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

8. LOL!

[Cha]

10. The nyt should regale

little lyin' judy miller to reviewing gardening manure.