Maureen Dowd continually disappoints me. She goes along for months, writing truth, seeking justice, then her corporate masters must get ahold of her, and she writes a column like she did today: "Running with Scissors":
http://select.nytimes.com/...
(behind firewall, not worth your money today)
Whether or not the country is ready to elect a woman president or a black president, it’s definitely not ready for a metrosexual in chief....
Americans have revered such homely leaders as Abe Lincoln. They seem open to balding pates like Rudy’s and flattops like Jon Tester’s. They don’t want self-confidence to look like self-love.
She is referring to the haircut - she just couldn't leave it alone. I guess that she had nothing else like the Iraq War or the complete and total absurdity of the Gonzales hearing to write about.
More inanity follows:
John Edwards has reminded us that even — or especially — in the age of appearances, you must not appear to care too much about appearances.
When you spend more on a couple of haircuts than Burundi’s per capita G.D.P. , it looks so vain it makes Paul Wolfowitz’s ablutions spitting on his comb look like rugged individualism.
I hope Maureen's Masters are paying her a LOT, to compare John Edwards unfavorably to Wolfowitz, who just happens to be in the news again this week. Do you think it is a coincidence she compares him to such a skanky guy as Wolfowitz?
I wonder what Maureen spends on her dye job in NYC? I bet it is a lot.
So it’s hard for me to understand how a guy could spend $400 without getting Bergdorf Blonde highlights. (The tabloids claim that Brad and Jen used to get matching streaks.) And don’t campaign donors get snippy about sponsoring tonsorial treats?
Someone who aspires to talk credibly about the two Americas can’t lavish on his locks what working families may spend on electricity in a year. You can’t sell earnestness while indulging in decadence.
She also goes on and goes after Edwards' daughter, who has a website, insinuating that Edwards daughter is shallow and materialistic. I wonder why Maureen Dowd never writes about the Bush girls and their drinking, debauchery, and lack of service in Iraq.
I thought that Edwards was not being savvy paying $400 for a haircut, although that is his right. I knew someone would talk about the "Two Americas" and how his haircut puts him firmly in the rich America. But I had hoped that whoever went after him was not a so-called "Liberal" Op-Ed writer.
Maureen, you disappointed me again.