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The Trendy Woman's Commie-Lib Ms. Dowd is obviously practiced at deception. If she were capable of analytical thought, she might have made a good politician. As it is, we have to deal with what she creates, which is usually without substance. Unfortunately, her columns are very influential in liberal journalistic circles. Check out this case outlined on SpinSanity.org. Current Installment (All deconstructions of Dowd's arguments are linked on the left): Neoconspiracy in Papier Mache A recent case of her complete disdain for the truth was in her column in the August 8, 2003 New York Times. I will present some of her statements from that column with my comments. Let others fight over whether the war in Iraq was a neocon vigilante action disrupting diplomacy. The neocons have moved on to a vigilante action to occupy diplomacy. The term "neocon" is the liberals' new attempt to try to compensate for the fact that "liberal" is a bad word in American politics while "conservative" remains a tag that a large portion of the electorate still wears proudly. The "neocon" conspiracy theory advanced most prominently (and perhaps first?) by Pat Buchanan needs to be treated separately, but in any event the term adds nothing to the debate, especially when written by Maureen Dowd. Countering the Post story, Powell's posse claimed that neither the secretary of state nor his deputy had ever said that they intended to step down, and charged that the neocons were leaking a canard to turn the two men they consider lame doves into lame ducks. This would be interesting, if it were true. Powell and others have indeed denied that the conversation took place, but I cannot find a single reference in a news story to the charge she attributes to members of Powell's staff. There is speculation in at least one editorial I came across, but it has no basis in fact. "This is the revenge of the neocons for two months of bad news, looking like they're falling all over themselves in Iraq," said a Powell confidant, noting that Alma Powell was furious she had been dragged in. Now I'm supposed to believe that Dowd has connections to a Powell insider, and that the insider buys into the nutty neocon conspiracy theory? I think I'll wait for a second source to confirm that before I put it on the front page. Wolfowitz has been tacitly campaigning for the jobs. He told Charlie Rose about his vice-regal trip to Iraq, where he said at last grateful Iraqis were thronging. "As we would drive by, little kids would run up to the road and give us a thumbs-up sign," he said. (At least he thought it was the thumb.) This does not amount to campaigning, tacitly or otherwise, for any job. The move against the popular Powell had all the earmarks of the neocons' pre-emptive strike on Iraq: There is no credible evidence of any move against Powell by anyone, therefore there is no evidence of a neocon attack. There is a second possibility that would explain the story in the Washington Post. The Post reporter took something out of context, distorted it willfully or through rationalization so that he could advance an agenda suitable to his desire to change the world. by trying to cut away from George W. Bush the main moderating element in his administration--the one that annoys liberal Black leaders, for example, because it makes it harder to denounce him as a racist (and if you don't think this story, despite the denials, has given them an opening, check this out). If they can drive a wedge between Bush and Powell, liberals can dream of a free world under the enlightened leadership of one of their own. They have begun to realize that, barring some kind of self-destruction along these lines, there is no living Democrat who can win the upcoming election. But SoothSeeker would never report that as a fact. |
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