The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

17 November 2005

Dowd for the day

Middle Class Guy Peter Bella thinks MoDo ought to be sacked:

She indirectly, in a recent column, called Judith Miller a whore. She very delicately and through the use of intellectual obfuscatory vocabulary referred to Ms. Miller's private life and her involvement with men. How ghastly. How horrible. How evil. Had Ms. Miller been involved with women it would be perfectly acceptable, but the fact that she likes men is abhorrent to Ms. Dowd.

If a male had written such a vituperative column, he would have been fired at the demand of Ms. Dowd and hauled before Congress to testify before a money wasting hearing before he was publicly castrated by Ted Koppel and Marlo Thomas. But evidently, a female can get away with it. There are only two reasons for this kind of behavior and vengeance drivel by Ms. Dowd. One, she is jealous that her brilliant counterpart actually has a life, and a sex life to boot, or two, Ms. Dowd is a lesbian who was turned down by Ms. Miller.

I rather doubt the latter: while certainly lesbians don't find men, um, necessary, except perhaps for situations requiring good old Brute Strength, they also don't spend a great deal of time castigating them for their perfidy, an activity which constitutes a significant portion of the MoDo operandi.

What I find worrisome, though, is the idea that someone actually considers Judith Miller "brilliant." And besides, as should surprise no one, I like "intellectual obfuscatory vocabulary." Sometimes it's all I have.

Posted at 11:45 AM to Warn Mode Due


Aha!... "The Obfuscator" has his day does he? (I was once flamed and labeled an "obfuscator" in a Dustbury comment ... not by you Charles ... one of your .. ahem...peers). Us obfuscators have to stick together ... Power to the People!

:)

P.S. and yeah ... Judith Miller, brilliant? nyuk, nyuk ... right.

Posted by: Ron at 4:39 PM on 17 November 2005

I assure you, I am utterly peerless. :)

Posted by: CGHill at 6:12 PM on 17 November 2005

I don't think MoDo was being obfuscatory when she wrote the Judy is a whore column, I didn't have to read between any lines. Also, it's ridiculous to think that such a column would be grounds for firing, considering that the Times put a MoDo story about Nancy Reagan screwing Frank Sinatra on page one.

Posted by: Rachel at 1:23 PM on 18 November 2005