Joe Conason Is Much Nicer Than Me

On MoDo:

Consider Maureen Dowd, a perceptive and often witty columnist who understands very well how destructive the Bush presidency has been to her beloved country. Just the other day Dowd acknowledged in the New York Times that we and the world would be in considerably better shape today had Gore -- whom she described as "prescient on climate change, the Internet, terrorism and Iraq" -- ascended to the Oval Office instead of the current occupant. But she neither noted the guilt of the media in that travesty nor recalled her own starring role. This compilation of her past columns on the subject of Gore, replete with false accusations and trendy sneering, is must reading.

Particularly catty and revealing is a quote from a 1999 column in which she suggested that Gore's environmentalism raised questions about his masculinity. But that was simply one episode among dozens that continued well after the 2000 election cycle. When the former vice president dared to voice his anger about the bloody debacle in Iraq two years ago, the Times columnist sweetly lumped him in with "the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party." He had to be nuts to be upset about the lies that led us into war, didn't he?

I just call her a bitch. Sexist, maybe, but fitting.

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Comments

[patrick]

Dowd was doing her job, which she does well. She has been a furiouus, scathing and hilarious critic of Bush and Cheney, though I think after 6 years it must become a dreary job.
Yes, at the time I thought she was over the edge with Gore and contributing to the conservative noise machine of disinformative mocking that was growing around him.
I was very glad to see the editor of Wired Magazine calrify the "inventor of the internet" quote after so many years and put it into it's true context of Gores' self depreciating sense of humor.
Now if only he can get his electricity bill down!