MoDo-- Spinning Our Safety

[charlyvi]

MoDo tears shrub a new one. A must read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/25dowd.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1090720927-mZsirAeB+IpX1YSSgcFhYg

[annxburns]

1. You know, I have mixed feelings bout Mo-Do ...

.. her almost pathological obsession with the Clinton's, her snide NY Times sneer and dismissal of the good they did ....

But that being said, she f**king ROCKS in this column. Hits the nail on the head and has to be given kudos for actually READING the 9/11 report which so many wise guys and pundits are failing to do ....

[charlyvi]

2. I agree with you about her attitude sometimes

Her writing sometimes sounds too frivolous for the gravity of her subject. And what is this with MoDo and Big Dog?

But, again I agree with you, THIS COLUMN ROCKS

[RamboLiberal]

3. Here's some good points in her column - and she has "Pet Goat"

Maybe it's because I've been instructed to pack a respirator escape hood along with party dresses for the Boston convention. Maybe it's because our newspaper has assigned a terrorism reporter to cover a political convention. Maybe it's because George Bush is relaxing at his ranch down there (again) while Osama is planning a big attack up here (again). Maybe it's because there are just as many American soldiers dying in Iraq post-transfer, more Muslims more mad at us over fake W.M.D. intelligence and depravity at Abu Ghraib, and more terrorists in more diffuse networks hating us more.

Maybe it's because the F.B.I. is still learning how to Google and the C.I.A. has an acting head who spends most of his time acting defensive over his agency's failure to get anything right. Maybe it's because so many of those federal twits who missed the 10 chances to stop the 9/11 hijackers, who blew off our Paul Reveres - Richard Clarke, Coleen Rowley and the Phoenix memo author - still run things. Call me crazy, Mr. President, but I don't feel any safer.

<snip>

President Bush was unsure of himself, relying too much on a vice president whose deep, calm voice belied a deeply cracked world view.

He explained to the commissioners that he had stayed in his seat making little fish faces at second graders for seven minutes after learning about the second plane hitting the towers because, as the report says, "The president felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening."

What better way to track the terror in the Northeast skies than by reading "My Pet Goat" in Sarasota?

[bklyncowgirl]

4. Go Maureen Dowd!

She really got to the heart of the matter.

Should be required reading for any one who's planning to vote.

[dand]

5. MODO can never atone for her fixation on Clinton's penis,

but this great article is a start, thanks for posting it.