[Diogenesis]

It is good to know the Lebanese-Arab-American view through Ms. Dowd.

But for her ultra-short memory:

[Ipse Dixit]

So it is with the president. He looks too good.

Sheeesh. When is that bitch ever gonna catch a clue? Dubys is a president who doesn't spend his time thinking about how he's gonna be putting his finger up his nose or a Cuban cigar up an intern.

[benjaminthomas]

Still taking out her frustration over losing Michael Douglas on the Republicans. Poor Mo. What's a liberal slut past her sell-by date to do? I suppose she'd still put on the knee pads for dear old Bill, but no one cares about that anymore.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Now wait just a cotton-pickin' second. Where are the Immutable Laws of Dowd? It just ain't a Saturday night, without 'em! ;-)

[Fracas]

Replace 'Bush' and 'Cheney' with 'Clinton' and 'Gore', and the major media - led by the NYT - would be screaming: 'mean-spirited right wing hate-mongers attack popular President and VP'.

Dowd long ago crossed the line between sarcastic to vicious. It's silly to keep qualifying her in terms of Michael Douglas; this is not a petty swipe by a scorned woman. This is not even an argument about policy; this is a weekly personal attack.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

The NYT has morphed into a quasi tabloid, with it's distorted stories and disturbed columnists,while the National Enquirer has become more mainstream and legitimate. Ten years ago, this would have been unthinkable.

[Dakota gal in Seattle]

It's "Vice President Cheney" to you Mz. Dowd!

[isthisnickcool]

Mean ain't she. And that's about all she is good for. Being mean.

Why is it that some women age gracefully while others seem to prune up like raisins? For example, Peggy Noonan is like the good witch in the Wizard of Oz. Sweet, smiling and full of love. Wanting to help other.

Wheras Dowd, like the wicked witch of the west, is mean and vile. And intent on slaying anyone she hates. And she hates a lot of people. Conservative people. In this case President Bush who she seems to be looking at and like the wicked witch saying "I'll get you me pretty". Because the president looks "too good"?

Someone throw some water on Dowd. Maybe she will melt.

[jwalsh07]

Without Mr. Cheney, America would not be planning to invade Iraq. Who else understands why the U.S. is starting a war without provocation for the first time in its history?

Ms Dowd makes stupid and stupider look damn smart.

[RecallJeffords]

The NYT has really been out of control in the last couple of years, and Dowd is symptomatic of its descent. A once great paper is now nothing more than a mouthpiece for anti-social rantings like this. The days of this kind of insulting fluff are gone and not coming back. Dowd is a has-been yearning for the Clinton days when the biggest issue was the size of the cigar. The NYT now carries front page articles that read like nothing more than a pre-September 11 DNC fax.

Bloggers are beginning to frustrate the NYT and other liberal press institutions. The President does not need to fear the NYT in light of all other media outlets now available, and the press establishment (such as Dowd) is lashing out.

[Outraged]

So Republicans were thrilled to hear the vice president tell a worshipful crowd of white, wealthy people at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last week that he would be willing to run with the president in 2004.

He called his White House tenure — incognito, undisclosed, classified and unavailable — "the high point of my professional life." The humility in his tone was unmistakable.

Say anything else about Maureen Dowd, but she is a masterful and studied propagandist. She is a Goebellian evil with malevolent intention. She plots and schemes every malicious anti-truth that she spews. She is the true ugly face of the libeRAT mindset. Lie, cheat, slander, scare and steal...After all, evil's ends justify the means.

[UB355]

Margaret Carlson down, at least one more to go.

[VRW Conspirator]

Hey Dowd...I thought I told you to:

SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!!!!!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

"..holding a napping Bush Mini-Me in a Snugli,.."

More baby references-seems like every column has gibberish and baby talk,( which of course is supposedly emanating from GW) or baby metaphors. Psych 101-someone better watch this woman if they see her lurking near a neonate ward.

[RichInOC]

Maureen Dowd...proof that the New York Times is an equal-opportunity employer. They gave her an op-ed column even though she writes like a college newspaper columnist. Strike that...there are probably a good number of college newspaper columnists who write more intelligently than she does. I apologize for insulting them by comparing them to her.

[Allegra]

It's so easy to see that Maureen thinks her little comments are so cute. She has no clue that they simply come off as common jealous female prattle. I've often wondered who belts down more drinks as she's writing her column....Maureen or Helen Thomas?

[jackbill]

But there is no transcript on the Web site, only a link to a conference-call recording that lets those with audio software listen to barely audible, tinny voices proclaiming that Dick Cheney did nothing wrong.

Is Ms. Dowdy admitting that:

1. She doesn't have "audio software"?

2. She can't be bothered spending a few minutes to learn the truth?

3. She "Can't Stand the Truth"?