Dowd's columns are what happen when you mix clever writing with a poor thought process. Instead of writing a substantive criticism of either Scowcroft's fears or Rice's imperatives, Dowd sends up this pseudointellectual garbage. For some time she's been writing this psychosexual analysis of Bush the Younger as if it has any validity to it.
Add to this fact the probability that she's getting hammered by some media bigwig and you can start putting things together. Her writing is clever but it is also substandard. Someone is getting something for putting her columns in print.
The great thing is that many liberals actually read her column like they read Doonesbury: for what they believe to be deep intellectual analysis hidden by cutting satire.
Which should tell you something about most liberals.
Someone posted on here an assertion that Dowd's paychecks were sure larger than ours. That's true.
But all that proves is that you can be well paid and shovel shit at the same time.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
