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Maureen Dowd’s fascist slip
Gerard Jackson
The recent attempt by the The Age, aka the Spencer Street Soviet, to promote Dowd’s Flop, otherwise known as Are Men Necessary, got me thinking about the ethics of this Celtic shrew and her fascist tendency to smear anyone unfortunate enough to cross her political path.
I recalled with striking clarity how her uncontrolled fury at Bush for defeating Gore revealed her fascist slip. Outraged that justice frustrated Gore’s attempted coup she reverted to the Goebbelesque tactic of rewriting history and smearing Bush.
You know the tactic, the one where lies become the truth and the truth is whatever the party says it is. So, as the tormented Winston Smith found in Orwell’s 1984, 2+2 really does equal 5 or whatever the party deems it to be.
In Dowd’s surreal political world that dominates the world-wide media make-believe substitutes for reality and bigotry passes for wisdom. In this world Gore became the martyr, a victim of the Bush family, that vicious political “cartel” as she once described it. And what of Gore the liar, the race-baiting demagogue, the power-hungry politician who schemed to strip service personnel of their right to vote?
Dowd, like the thugs who ran Oceania, has her own memory hole — it’s called the New York Slimes where they cannot distinguish bitchy from witty, which must account for her undeserved reputation as a droll and daring columnist when she is nothing more than a lefty with a poison pen and a license to libel. If there be such a thing as political affirmative action, then she is vivid example of why it should be abolished.
Like most of her breed she is totally unable to grasp the concept of the rule of law, thinking it is whatever any Clinton, Gore or Kerry says it “is”, depending, of course, on the meaning of “is”. A Goebbels or Stalin would really love this line: “When you try to obscure truth, as the Bush crowd has, that is a sad day for democracy”[!] A “sad day for democracy” indeed”.
It was Gore and his legal henchmen, with the tacit support of the toxic Dowd, who schemed to deny service personnel the right to vote. It was Gore and his win-at-all-costs cronies who tried to have 25,000 valid votes thrown out. That was not “a sad day for democracy”, it was an American tragedy and one Dowd participated in. And still she had the effrontery to argue for the “sanctity of the vote” and accuse the Bush camp of “ugly” tactics.
The very notion that the Florida Supreme Court tried “to reveal the truth”, as she dishonestly put it, is just another leftwing lie designed to help delegitimise a Bush presidency. Not content with this outrage she argued that the court split along ideological lines. It was split between those who believe the Constitution means exactly what it says and those like her who would have it say anything that promotes their ideology.
This is why a political hack like Justice Breyer thinks there is nothing wrong with legislating from the bench let alone changing the election rules after the result has been declared so that in his own words: “And therefore, I guess, whether we win [the Gore camp] — whether your side, the side you’re supporting wins or loses, it doesn’t change that.” Justice Scalia summed it up when he declared:
Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires.
This astute observation, however, is something that the self-deluded Dowd is still comprehend given her unremitting support for Gore’s scorched-earth policy and her continued hatred of President Bush.
Her underlying contention was that Gore would have won a state-wide recount, even though there had been two recounts. What she chose to ignore is that this was highly unlikely, even with the Supreme Court’s pro-Gore standards, because Bush won the rest of Florida’s counties with punch-card voting systems. This meant counting undervotes in those counties would have increased votes for Bush, just as they would have increased them for Gore if these counties had voted for him.
No matter how Dowd would have it, the Florida court’s slim majority had nothing to do with “principle” and everything to do with trying to fix the election for Gore. An attempt so brazenly corrupt that Justice Wells felt impelled to issue a scathing dissension stressing that the decision had “no foundation in law”.
That Maureen Dowd enthusiastically cheered a decision that had “no foundation in law” because it supported her ideological choice for the White House revealed how far down the fascist road America’s media elite has travelled.
Dowd’s support for Gore’s assault on constitutional niceties and the rule of law is really no surprise as this is the same penetrating intellect that called Florida’s Cuban community a bunch of totalitarians because they resisted Elian’s illegal return to Castro’s socialist paradise.
Totalitarians, Dowd? I am still waiting for this unapologetic Gore bootlicker to tell us how many children this community murdered, how many political prisoners it has, how many critics it tortured to death, how much international terrorism it sponsors, etc.
To my knowledge Dowd has never condemned one criminal act by Castro. No wonder she still thinks Gore’s tactics of manufacturing votes while ripping votes away from Bush supporters was a great good idea.
The less we hear from little Miss Dowd the better.
Gerard Jackson is Brookes’ economics editor
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Monday 27 February 2006