Media Musings, Take 2
Dear God, forgive me for it pains me to say this ... but Maureen Dowd appears to be in a free-fall. Her latest column in The New York Times is a tepid satire on "It's a Wonderful Life" as applicable to Donald Rumsfeld -- and it is lamer than lame. Yeah, yeah, I can't stand the guy, either, but claiming that everything would be just Hunky Dory if he'd never been born is just dumb, disingenuous and seriously hateful. I mean, surely, he did something good in his 72 years of life -- helped a blind woman cross a street, fed milk to a stray cat, left a waitress a nice tip, personally signed condolence letters to the families of soldiers killed in action (well, maybe not that one), something like that.
At any rate, MoDo needs a muse. Our It Girl is coasting.
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It's official: George W. Bush is Time's Person of the Year. Which we guess means that Karl Rove is Time's Meta-Person of the Year.
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On the more self-absorbed front, Time also explores the world of blogging. Woo-hoo!
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Over at "American Idle," the President gets his Trekkie on.
posted by Chase McInerney @ 7:00 AM
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5 Comments:
Man I hate to dis' Ms. Dowd, but I can't even finish her column these days. Do you think she could use a new administration? I'm surprised she hasn't found inspiration in Bernard Kerik.
Yeah, she's lost it, believes her own press clippings, etc.
I hope Jon Stewart doesn't go the same route, with a book and a tv show going so well.. I hope he realizes the danger of over-saturation. So far, he seems to get it. If TIME had any balls, HE would have been the Person of the Year.
Oh my goodness!!! I would love to see TIME come up with some balls and make Jon Stewart person of the year.
Good grief, Chase, first you all but agree with me on the Democrats need to do a little navel-gazing about Islamo-fascism.
And now you agree with me on the legendary MoDo too? Looks like hugs breaking out all over blogolandia. What's next, you'll start criticizing Jon Stewart?
Oh, no, I guess not.
Red Dirt that won't happen. Don't you know whose really behind that curtain-- no criticism of Jon Stewart here.
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