Frank Rich Takes a Good Fisking--Updated!Over at
Tom Maguire's. As Tom notes, about the only interesting thing in this column is that it turns out that Deep Throat never actually said "Follow the money." That exhortation was created from whole cloth by the screenwriter for
All the President's Men.
I looked at Rich's column as a potential post for Lifelike, but skipped it because it was too predictable. You could read similar stuff over at the Daily Kos diaries any time. The press is in the back pocket of the Republicans, nobody ever asks the president about the Downing Street Memo, they're all a bunch of neocons (although keeping with the Watergate theme, Rich refers to them as neo-Colsons). Hilariously he accuses the Bush Administration of releasing bad news on the Friday before Memorial Day; Tom checked his calendar and notes that it was the Friday
after Memorial Day.
Update: Rick Moran over at
Right Wing Nuthouse has more.
Given that Mr. Rich knows less about politics than he does about the theater, perhaps the Times should have made him their Restaurant Critic. At least then he would have been well-fed and could have saved his readers the unpleasant experience of up-chucking after reading him. After all, how unappetizing can you make a restaurant review? Considerably less nauseating than the gibberish he writes when scribbling earnestly about politics.
