I've been contemptuous of Maureen Dowd since she bitch slapped Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, Howard Dean's gentle lady, for practicing medicine while her husband was running for president; but I must say, I've gained a new respect for Dowd.
In today's NYT Moe got right down in the mud with Judith Miller and slugged it out. Andrew Cockburn of Counterpunch, commentator for the match describes the event as as operatic,
"...it was as though Maria Callas had suddenly rushed onto the stage and slugged Elizabeth Schwartzkopf."
"I held off (coughing up $49.50) until today when the Times nailed the sale with Dowd's column titled, "Woman of Mass Destruction" and her ominous opening sentence, "I've always liked Judy Miller".
Announcer Cockburn admits
"I held off until today when the Times nailed the sale with Dowd's column titled, "Woman of Mass Destruction" and her ominous opening sentence, [I've always liked Judy Miller].
After that enticing lead, designed to make online readers fish out their credit cards, Dowd spent five paragraphs sketching Miller's profile as a power-mad egomaniac, (demanding Dowd's chair at a White House briefing) before drop kicking her in the face with the blunt accusations that she's a liar and--a thought first expressed in this column the day Miller went behind bars--that "her stint in the Alexandria jail was in part a career rehabilitation project".
Then, with Judy down on the canvas, Dowd came flying down from the corner post, with her knee on Judy's throat..."
Read the rest for yourself Cat Fight cause you can never have too much fun.