Those of us who follow the NY Times Op-Ed pages know that substance-less mean girl Maureen Dowd has lost her Wednesday column gig and is relegated to once a week to spew bile against the Clintons, Obama et al. (Yes, she does go after Republicans too, but that does nothing to excuse her vicious, groundless and emasculating jabs at Pres. Obama, Al Gore, John Kerry et al.)
Well, fear not, those of you who want to read almost the same stuff on Wednesday. Frank Bruni has replaced Dowd and he's off to a fast start today with a Dowd-esque column about Hillary.
Bruni is an eloquent spokesman on gay issues, but when he goes beyond that, he's a Beltway CW hack of the worst kind.
(Bruni is infamous for his sycophantic 2000 Bush reporting -- e.g., praising him in the Times after the first debate, but then admitting in a post-election book that he thought Bush was terrible in that debate.)
See if you can tell the difference between Bruni and Dowd from these quotes:
It wasn’t secrecy that motivated her. It was purse space and pinkie strain.
The conversation — incredibly — has returned to Rose Law Firm records lost and found, to the pricey privilege of the Lincoln Bedroom, to Whitewater.
She’s going to have a primary, all right, but it will be a contest against her own worst impulses, default defensiveness and prickly sense of insult when pressed for explanations. From what I saw Tuesday, victory is uncertain.
(They're all Bruni.)
No, Frank -- you're the ones bringing back the phony scandals from the '90s. Did she bring up the Rose Law firm?
The media view the Clintons as their own clay mold -- to be shaped how they want her to be shaped, in this case abasing herself more in her apology and losing "attitude," while giving them more and more material they can feed to the GOP to smear her.
If I were her I'd give them as little as possible.