It's Dowdy-Doody Time!
Slow-Mo is back with another of her m
ind-numbingly stupid columns. This time it's about Armstrong Willians & Maggie Gallagher getting paid to promote administration policy. I haven't had time to pay too much attention to the latter case, but most of those who have seem to agree that it's not similary to that of Williams.
But of course, you can imagine how Dowd treats it. She offers to prostitute herself in return for filthy lucre from the Bush Administration (as compared to the NY Times' filthy lucre). Most of it is about columns she would be willing write, but then she slips in this one:
What is all this hand-wringing about the 31 marines who died in a helicopter crash in Iraq yesterday? It's only slightly more than the number of people who died in traffic accidents in California last Memorial Day. The president set the right tone, avoiding pathos when asked about the crash. "Obviously," he said, "any time we lose life it is a sad moment."
It doesn't fit with the rest of what she wrote; it reads like something she cut and pasted from somewhere else.
The president might need my help as well. He looked out of it yesterday when asked why his foreign policy is so drastically different from the one laid out in Foreign Affairs magazine in 2000 by Ms. Rice - a preview that did not emphasize promoting democracy and liberty around the world. "I didn't read the article," Mr. Bush said.
Gee, Mo, I hear that FDR promised to keep us out of World War II during the 1940 campaign as well.
