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Monday, January 31, 2005

Torture who gone what now?

Speaking as a liberal, Maureen Dowd sucks. Her commentary is as saccharine as it is insipid, spawning half-assed arguments that begin with outrage and meander along, proving nothing before ending off with a parting salvo that usually resembles moral indignation.

General structure:
A) I can't believe the Bush administration did _____ [I usually agree with her here]
B) Rather than develop an argument against _____, I'll restate my anger with synonyms, off-point metaphors and some patent fire and brimstone.
C) Running out of space, I'll just state, again--for the record--that George W. Bush is ruining the country.

It's crap, really, and her latest piece is maybe the worst written thing I've read since last I drafted a blog. Ben postulates that she's the liberal Ann Coulter, and I suspect he may be right. They both whine and rant and posture to hide hollow arguments.

7 Comments:

At 4:42 PM, Blogger Maya said...

Yeah, I'm with you there. Dowd sucks. Sometimes I wish the community would purge the retards from its ranks rather than allow them to represent us.

 
At 11:55 PM, Blogger Don Sheffler said...

Yeah, but then they'd just go start the Green Party.

heh.

 
At 12:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, Maureen Dowd is definitely the weakest columnist they have. I don't think that she's exactly the liberal equivalent of Ann Coulter because most if not all of the contents of her columns are the truth -- they're just written extremely poorly.

--Mike Sheffler
... turning to the 3-D map, we see an unmistakable cone of ignorance

 
At 1:18 AM, Blogger Luke said...

A truth poorly told might as well be a lie, especially in the Op/Ed section. The effect is the same.

 
At 1:19 AM, Blogger Luke said...

And I think what Ben meant was that they're both good looking.

 
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