The NY Times’ Maureen Dowd should read the transcript

We all grow older. Some of us grow a little wiser. And then there’s Maureen Dowd who keeps getting sillier.

Here’s some of what Dowd said yesterday, Feb. 19, on Meet the Press:

Well, I think that the reason this story (not immediately notifying the WH press corps of the hunting accident – JinC) has evoked such fascination is because the vice president is like the phantom. You know, we hear the creak of the door as he passes, but we don’t really know what he’s up to.

We don’t know his schedule. We don’t always know where he is. We don’t know what democratic institution he’s blowing off at any given minute, and so this allowed us to see how his behavior and judgment operated pretty much in real time—with the delay, but pretty much in real time.

And it covered all the problems of the Bush/Cheney administration: secrecy and stonewalling, then blowing off the rules that are at the heart of our democracy, then using a filter to try and put the truth out in a way that would most suit their political needs, and then bad political judgment in bungling a crisis.

I mean, if there’s one thing the Republicans are great at since Reagan, it’s damage control. But he is such a control freak, you know, he doesn’t even care about the damage.”

Speaking of damage, Maureen, have you looked at the transcript of what you said Feb. 19 on Meet The Press?

Hat tip: Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters