This is a pretty funny gloss on the column: http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/10/modo-comes-out-swinging.html
-- adam
On 10/22/05, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> When Divas Collide: Maureen Dowd v. Judy Miller
>
> By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
>
> Would you pay $49.95 to watch women wrestling in mud? I did this morning,
> and it was well worth the expense. I get the New York Times Online and until
> a couple of weeks ago all the features were free. Then, as some of you have
> no doubt discovered, the NYT's columnists started to have only their opening
> sentences on free display. To get the full columns of Krugman, Rich, Dowd
> and the others you have to pony up $49.95 a year's subscription to Times
> Select.
>
> I held off until today when the Times nailed the sale with Dowd's column
> titled, "Woman of Mass Destruction" and her ominous opening sentence, "I've
> always liked Judy Miller".
>
> Miller has been the sport of a million stories and there was nothing much by
> way of startling revelations in what Dowd wrote, but in operatic terms it
> was as though Maria Callas had suddenly rushed onto the stage and slugged
> Elizabeth Schwartzkopf.
>
> After that enticing lead, designed to make online readers fish out their
> credit cards, Dowd spent five paragraphs sketching Miller's profile as a
> power-mad egomaniac, (demanding Dowd's chair at a White House briefing)
> before drop kicking her in the face with the blunt accusations that she's a
> liar and--a thought first expressed in this column the day Miller went
> behind bars--that "her stint in the Alexandria jail was in part a career
> rehabilitation project".
>
> Then, with Judy down on the canvas, Dowd came flying down from the corner
> post, with her knee on Judy's throat:
>
> Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to
> the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats
> to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger
> would be the newspaper in your hands.
>
> Moral: Don't ever take Maureen Dowd's chair at a White House briefing. ...
>
> <http://www.counterpunch.org/>
>
> Carl
>
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