Speaking of Annoying Bitches heres a link to Dedorah Solomon of the NYT interviewing the Almighty Gannon.

It does not go well. Reg. Required.

The more I read Kinsley's article, the more I think he was being very snide for most of the column. Looks like he tried to be too cute and his snidenes didn't quite translate.

That's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with for his lavish praise of Maureen Down. It makes alot more sense if you assume he was being sarcastic.

Once in a while Kinsley can still put out a column worth reading. Moreover, Dowd has been influential--in a bad way (see Wonkette and Tina Brown).

Still, I read the column you cite and kept waiting for it to get really good...and it just ended.

Nothing.

It was as though Kinsley thought about writing something challenging and controversial, and then just say to hell with it. Or ran out of gas and just stopped. Or something.

It makes alot more sense if you assume he was being sarcastic.

Don't ascribe to sarcasm what can be better explained by simple stupidity.

I hate to tell you, Ace ...

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That said, neither Estrich nor Kinsley nor (saints preserve us ...) Dowd(y) would get the joke.

Ace:

Good use of going for the simple explanation rather than the more complicated one. Editor's rule, or Occam's razor, go for the shortest (or simplest) wording or theory.

Had a theory I wanted to share, and see if anyone noticed this.

On the night of the Presidential Election, all the folks on TV, getting ready for their campagin coverage beginning at 7:00 PM EST, were doing last minute discussing/punditry just before the 7:00 PM EST mark. FOX had Hume, Krystal, Kondrake and Barone, and there was Susan Estrich on video feed. (Later that night, by the way, was when Barone sliced through the county voting patterns like a fuckin' hammer.)

Well, they were all hinting at what the Exit Poll showed (shit, it had hit Drudge early in the day, and they weren't being too quiet about the actual Exit Poll indicated), and the boys at FOX were sort of showing their hand (1, that the Exit Polls showed a Kerry victory; 2, that they were bumbed out about it, at least Hume and Kristol, and Barone wasn't doing his thing yet; and 3, they were trying to hope against hope that the Exit Poll was wrong). Estrich got really smarmy and said something along the lines of "You boys can cackle with your silly grins all you want, but from the looks of these polls, you know as well as I that if these Exit Poll numbers look right, your guy's toast and you can't change it."

She got in a real nasty dig. Prior to the Swift Boat shit, Estrich was pretty good on FOX. She was one of the token liberals, but she made sense most of the time, never got angry, and even slammed Clinton for his sexcapades and Kerry for running a shitty campaign. Then, after the Swift guys got their ad on, she went ballistic. Party faithful at all cost, trench warfare time. No more trying to sound left-leaning, she pulled the gloves off and was far-left shrill freak. Then, from that point on, Estrich became less and less interesting to hear on FOX.

Then, her guy got his ass handed to him, and Bush won, and she (Estrich) had to eat that shit she fed to Hume & Co. This to me was a major tipping point. She didn't show up as a commentator that much for the rest of the night, and Kristol, Barone and Hume were pretty damn happy that the Exit Polls were way off. They were happy because their instincts told them not to put all faith in the EP, and because they were rooting for Bush. Good pundits and good conservatives.

That's when I saw Estrich go into the pits of hell.

Estrich was clearly drunk on election night, did anybody else see it?

She was alright during the Cali Recall but like KCtrio says, she went nuts after the Swifties came out.

That NYT interview had to be among the dumbest things I've eved read without clicking on Filet O Fish.

After reading that Gannon "interview", it occurs to me once again how women take advantage of the fact that men won't bust their freaking teeth out. Tell me a guy would have got away with such an insulting approach.

She's just lucky Gannon didn't call down a lightining bolt on her ass, but I'll bet she's on his list now, anyway.

The Man's got some scores to settle, and you don't want to be around for the Day of Reckoning.

The turning point for me with Susan Estrich was when she said one day on the Sean Hannity show that she had been raped and how hard it had been and how women should stick together. It made all the times she had defended Clinton and trashed Monica -all his women-seem so bizarre.

"The turning point for me with Susan Estrich was when she said one day on the Sean Hannity show that she had been raped and how hard it had been..."

You know they never did catch the guy that tried to rape her. Heres an artists rendering of the suspect.

Im not sure why the picture shows the suspect holding a brown paper bag, but I can guess.

Speaking of T-Shirts, our model for Dusty today reminds me of my ex-wife whom they name the movie Dirty Pretty Thing for.

Alas, they got the phrase on the T-shirt wrong.

It should have read "...for sufficiently large values of 2".

(It's an old joke among mathematicians.)