Maureen Dowd: Animal House Summit (Dowd/Gag Alert)

New York Times ^ | July 19, 2006 | Maureen Dowd

[Arec Barrwin]

New York Times (NY) Copyright (c) 2006 The New York Times. All rights reserved.

July 19, 2006

Animal House Summit

MAUREEN DOWD

Reporters who covered W.'s 2000 campaign often wondered whether the Bush scion would give up acting the fool if he got to be the king.

Would he stop playing peekaboo with his pre-meal moist towels during airplane interviews? Would he quit scrunching up his face and wiggling his eyebrows at memorial services? Would he replace levity and inanity with gravity?

"In many regards, the Bush I knew did not seem to be built for what lay ahead," wrote Frank Bruni, the Times writer who covered W.'s ascent, in his book "Ambling Into History." "The Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster, an adult with an inner child that often brimmed to the surface or burst through."

[Arec Barrwin]

Man-hating/Secretly Bush-loving Maureen Dowd says open-microphone incident at G-8 lunch in St Petersburg illustrates once more that Pres Bush never made any effort to adapt to serious presidential leadership; says that however serious the occasion, Bush brings same frat-house bearing and cadences, same insouciance and smart-alecky attitude, same simplistic approach: swearing, swaggering, talking to Tony Blair with his mouth full of buttered roll, and giving startled Angela Merkel an impromptu shoulder rub.

[bert]

MD....When you spread you legs do maggots crawl out? Have you stopped smiling because your teeth are all gray and green? When your braless breasts sag, does your back ache?

[SeanOGuano]

Queue up the CZJ pics!

[vetsvette]

"an adult with an inner child that often brimmed to the surface or burst through"

Not at all like our Bubba, the most perfect Prez in American history.

[hsalaw]

Maureen Dowd is a certified cretin. Ignoring her for the moment (or for all time), Fred Barnes has an interesting article in the latest Weekley Standard in which he talks about Pres. Bush's favorite world leaders - and they're all straight talkers who do what they say they'll do. Needless to say, Putin and Chirac are NOT on the list. Merkel, Blair, Howard, Koizumi, and (I think) the former prime minister of Italy are.

[SF Republican]

Lincoln was famous for this type of behavior, always telling jokes, cracking wise etc.

[gridlock]

[crazyhorse691]

Pathetic attempts at Journalism will be Dodos legacy to the world. Pity the fool; she is not worthy of anything more or less.

[paul51]

An angry and petty piece and truly , totally irrelevant.

[FormerACLUmember]

Humorless washed up hag/drunk Dowd needs to get a clue.

Who on earth reads her sewer bilge anyway?

[Kenny Bunkport]

Would he stop playing peekaboo with his pre-meal moist towels during airplane interviews? Would he quit scrunching up his face and wiggling his eyebrows at memorial services? Would he replace levity and inanity with gravity?

Would Mo Dowd stop being a tiresome old shrew?

[Kenny Bunkport]

Pres Bush never made any effort to adapt to serious presidential leadership

Like Bill Clinton did.

[RushCrush]

IT's been about a year since I've actually read one of MoDo's rot pieces. I see she still hasn't gotten over the whole Bush thing.

By the way, the digital photo airbrush technique at the Times is amazing!

[Arec Barrwin]

I couldn't resist.

[FormerACLUmember]

Make that a double, bartender. Maureen Dowd'd liquor bill must rival the national debt.

[RushCrush]

I just realized it...you have one FUNNY FR name!

[conservative in nyc]

[Kenny Bunkport]

swaggering

"In Texas, that's called 'walking.'"

[SeanOGuano]

Thank you very much for that.

[RushCrush]

She has HUGE FEET!!! yikes!