Posted on 08/15/2004 10:06:31 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
Edited on 08/15/2004 10:11:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The book that is being most heavily promoted on late-night and other liberal television in advance of the Republican National Convention is "Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk" by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
Ms. Dowd's tangy, viperous analysis cuts a fairly broad swath in its targets, but in recent years has zeroed in on what she considers to be the misdemeanors of the cast of characters who form the Bush administration. Bushworld is populated, for example, by the Boy Emperor (President Bush), Rummy (Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld), Wolfie (Deputy Secretary of Donald Defense Paul Wolfowitz) and Uncle Dick of the Underworld (Vice President Dick Cheney).
(Excerpt) Read more at postgazette.com ...
I picked it up myself. I lost about 20 IQ points I'll never get back.
Dowd excels at turning out gramatically and stylistically perfect compositions that say nothing. Her writing is not fresh, original, or imaginative.
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