IT Maureen Dowd is an excellent writer. Her voice is among the most distinctive of the major columnists, and she certainly is the most forceful elite-media female columnist. And it is her tone, rather than her ideas, that really makes her fascinating. Just when she reaches the point of nudging a bleary-eyed widget salesman from El Paso in order to vent her disgust with Elsa Klench and everything and everybody else, she phones it in to the New York Times . But there s something more.
Nobody s ever good enough or smart enough or honest enough.
The peanuts are too salty and she s seen the in-flight movie before. Everything and everyone disappoints. If so and so is bad, then the guy over there must be worse, and only she can see it. But she s spent a year or two tearing Bill Clinton to pieces. Then that Grey Lady on her shoulder whispered in her ear that by implication she was endorsing Ken Starr.