Meet the Pundits

Mary Matlin on MTP this morning next to David Gregory. He has a lisp. What kind of a press show would include David Gregory and Maureen Dowd, the two poster children for what Americans hate about the press? Well, I guess, on second thought, it is called Meet the Press. But Maureen Dowd as a pundit? She's the Lucianne of the Left. The only one I know of she hasn't savaged was Michael Kelly when she did a reading at his memorial, and then she looked like being so nice gave her gas.

They included a clip of "Hillary!" dumping on Cheney for not being more "forthcoming." Matlin rightly pointed it out as the brazen hypocrisy it is. I seem to recall something being said, during the previous administration, about the president's right to his private life. I keep trying to imagine, Al Gore had peppered someone accidentally with bird shot, how I'd have viewed it. Certainly as adding to his typical awkwardness, but hardly with this kind of bitchy hostility. There would have been some jokes and concern for the other party, but this high dudgeon just goes on and on and on!

Dowd accuses Cheney of sending out people to blame the victim. You can really see the little preprocessor at work between the minds of these people and reality. And, boy, the claws were out!