Dowd: Pros at the Con

[kskiska]

(snip)

An information scam is good enough for George Bush's franchise, though. It's clearly easier and safer — especially in the era of instant, interlocking data and technology — to go with the truth than a ruse, but the Bush team went with a ruse to get us into what Rummy belatedly calls "the long, hard slog" of Iraq.

Now we're in the postwar war, and President Bush is still manipulating reality. He wants to obscure the intensity and nature of the opposition, choosing to lump anyone who resists the American occupation in the category of terrorist.

He has also tried to play down the fatalities and the large number of wounded. He has not been attending memorial services or funerals of the soldiers killed in Iraq, according to The Washington Post. And the Pentagon reinforced a ban on news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings at Dover.

This sort of airbrushing is tasteless, because it diminishes our war heroes instead of honoring them. And pointless, since news outlets are running the names of the dead every day and starting to focus more on the heart-rending stories of the maimed.

(snip)

Those who go for the big con, who audaciously paint false pictures, think everyone else is stupid. They want to promote themselves based on the gullibility of others.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/opinion/02DOWD.html

[Skittles]

1. but Maureen

Bush has always lied and conned and bullshitted - but during the presidential race you were too busy picking on Gore to point that out to your readers, you f***ing WHORE.

Sorry, I cannot STAND her.

[Stuckinthebush]

2. Agreed, Skittles

While I am glad that she is seeing the light, her complicity in the destruction of Al Gore is almost unforgivable.

[Skittles]

3. worse, she is picking on other journalists for being frauds?

this so-called "journalist" Maureen worried more about the color of Gore's tie than that fact that George W. Bush was an illiterate AWOL mornonic piece of SHIT who has destroyed EVERYTHING HE HAD EVER TOUCHED. I'll never forgive her; she can GO TO HELL.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I wish I had your gift for words.

I'll just tack on the words, "That goes for me too, Maureen."


But, just out of curiousity, Skittles, is this going to turn into a Jane Fonda kind of hatred? Or is there anything that Mo can do to redeem herself?

[Skittles]

7. Yes

Maureen can write a column explaining why she was derelict in her duties as a journalist and participated in the sliming of a decent man (Al Gore) to promote an illiterate moronic piece of shit (Dubya). When she does this, says she's sorr and asks to be forgiven, I will forgive her.

[The Zanti Regent]

6. Look in the mirror, Whoreen

If you want to see who the #1 liar of all time is, dearie, go in your bathroom and look in YOUR mirror!

[Vitruvius]

5. Dowd's article is excellent because "it takes one to know one"

I like the way Dowd compares Bu$h* with journalistic frauds & liars, namely Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, and Jayson Blair. She outlines their lies & frauds, then goes on to Bu$h.

And she has an insider's understanding of these four frauds: "Those who go for the big con, who audaciously paint false pictures, think everyone else is stupid. <SNIP> It's bad enough to try to hide critical information when you can get away with it. It's really insulting to try to hide it when you can't get away with it. <SNIP> For Cooke, Glass and Blair, their editors were the marks. But at least that unholy trio only soiled newsprint. For the Bush crowd, the American people were the marks."

Yes, Dowd omits to mention her own fraud in knowingly printing lies about Al Gore -- flagrantly telling lies to smear Al Gore as a liar. Why did she do it? To curry favor with editors -- much as Cooke, Glass, and Blair did. Why did she think she could get away with it? Because she "think(s) everyone else is stupid".

Nevertheless, it's an excellent article about frauds -- including both lying establishment journalists and our lying pResident; "it takes one to know one." I am glad she chose to share her unique insight & understanding as an insider & distinguished practitioner of the art of "manipulating reality" -- i.e. lying. She's a true "pro at the con", and I hope she writes more articles exposing the pResident she helped install.