Summary of today's Maureen Dowd column?

[wakemewhenitsover]

[randr]

1. The NYT does not consider the information of their columnists

relevant enough to provide to the general public anymore. They want us to pay extra for the privilege of reading their propaganda.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. The Times doesnt want people to read columnists who criticize *.

[wakemewhenitsover]

5. Are Brooks and Tierney PPV too?

[mcscajun]

9. All of the NY Times Op-Ed columnists are now part of Times Select

along with certain new content elements.

The good news is, many of them are syndicated elsewhere on one-day delay. :)

Like here: http://timesunion.com/

[nothometoday]

12. Wonderful!

Thank you :D

[applegrove]

11. Actually - these are the people who are their best stars. Of course

they want people to read. And the one day delay is good.

[mcscajun]

2. Don't need the summary....read the entire column here:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=401117&category=MDOWD&BCCode=&newsdate=9/21/2005

[wakemewhenitsover]

4. Thanks mucho!

:yourock:

[calico1]

6. Thanks for the link.

Great column!

[rzemanfl]

7. Thank you. n/t

[MissMarple]

8. Thanks!! And a little snip about "the niece".

"Bush made a frownie over Brownie, but didn't learn much. He's once more trying to appoint a nothingburger to a position of real consequence in homeland security. The choice of Julie Myers, a 36-year-old lawyer with virtually no immigration, customs or law enforcement experience, to head the roiling Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency with its $4 billion budget and 22,000 staffers, has caused some alarm, according to The Washington Post.

Myers' main credentials seem to be that she worked briefly for the semidisgraced homeland security director, Michael Chertoff, when he was at the Justice Department. She just married Chertoff's chief of staff, John Wood, and she's the niece of Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."

[wakemewhenitsover]

10. Nepotism, roomies: we're at the mercy of preppies and fratboys

[DemNoir]

13. No need to read her

The columns follow this format:

Blah blah blah look how cute and funny I am. Blah blah blah, I don't like Bush, but I hate Democrats even more. Blah blah blah.

[DemocracyInaction]

14. Ya' Gotta Love these Two Statements though from Her:

I quote from her Op Ed piece:

"Bush's "Who's Your Daddy?" bravura -- blowing off the world on global warming and the allies on the Iraq invasion -- has been slapped back by Mother Nature, who refuses to be fooled by spin."

And then she says in reference to his attempts to look like he cares:

"The more the president echoes his dad's "Message: I care," the more the world hears "Message: I can't.""