God, I love Maureen Dowd. And not just because she’s a hot intellectual bosomy liberal Irish redhead (though considering my wife and past girlfriends, these considerations do hold some merit.) Her latest column:
Bush has some nerve lecturing Putin: The only balance W. likes is the slavering, Pravda-like ‘fair and balanced’ coverage Fox News provides. Bush pledges to spread democracy while his officials strive to create a Potemkin press village at home. This White House seems to prefer softball questions from a self-advertised male escort with a fake name to hardball questions from journalists with real names; it prefers tossing journalists who protect their sources into the gulag to giving up the officials who broke the law by leaking the name of their own CIA agent.
We need only to recall one of Bush’s own quotes:
“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier – just so long I’m the dictator.” — George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
