Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Caricatures Duelling
New York Post Online Edition: gossip: "SEN. Zell Miller (D- Ga.) laced into New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd yesterday on the 'Imus in the Morning' radio show, saying, 'The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on 'Meet the Press' and writes those col umns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don't want some high brow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they're id iots and telling them that they're stupid.' Miller also suggested 'that red-headed woman at the New York Times' should not mock anyone's religion: 'You can see horns just sprouting up through that Technicolor hair.' Dowd responds: 'I'm not a highbrow hussy from New York. I'm a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords?' "
These two are both merely caricatures of themselves, so watching them hash it out is more theatre than reasoned discourse. Zell did lose his cool with Matthews, although I understood why. Dowd does, indeed say things that I always feel sure she knows better than to believe. We should likely take both of them with a grain of seasoned salt.
These two are both merely caricatures of themselves, so watching them hash it out is more theatre than reasoned discourse. Zell did lose his cool with Matthews, although I understood why. Dowd does, indeed say things that I always feel sure she knows better than to believe. We should likely take both of them with a grain of seasoned salt.
