Ann: This from Maureen Dowd's Texas Double, Molly Ivins, whose lack of brains almost but not quite equals that of her red-headed NYTimes blatherer:
From Ivin's opinion column in Chicago Tribune November 11th 2004 edition:
On the friendly old finger-pointing field, I can think of only one egregious blunder (the rest can be argued). That was the Kerry campaign's failure to not just respond to but to blast the living hell out of the Swift Boat Liars. Inexcusable conduct on both sides on that one. Granted, the attack was so awful and so distorted anyone would be tempted to dismiss it as beneath contempt, but since Karl Rove specializes in attacking the opponent's strong point, it could almost have been expected. So much for finger-pointing.
Just like Dimwitted Dowd, Irascable Ivins knows how to call names but is equally devoid of supporting data.
Ivins' describes the Swift Boat vets as "liars" whose attack was "so awful and so distorted... as beneath contempt."
One has to wonder how Ivins would describe the Swift Boat crew if they had marshalled their "lies" in support of Kerry rather than in opposition to his candidacy, causing him to win the election.
Would they then have been "heroes" to Mollie Ivin, a Bush hater since her birth, or would they still be beneath her contempt?"
Mollie Ivins and Maureen Dowd both should end their attempted fraud on the American public. They pretend to be thinkers, analysts, observers and writers. They neither think, nor do they have the objectivity required of an analyst, and they observe only that which fits their deeply ingrained prejudices.
As for their claim to be writers, perhaps they should used the word "propagandists" instead. They use words as weapons. And most of the time their unsheathed barbs which they hurl with such intellectual abandon come back, like the Australian boomerang, to cut them off at the stem which connects the heart to the brain. |
