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by John Cole|  June 7, 200411:01 am| 2 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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Here is a quick test to tell if you have succumbed to irrational Bush Hatred. Read your posts back to yourself, and if it sounds like something Maureen Dowd wrote after two cosmopolitans, you are an irrational Bush hater. Check out this ridiculousness:

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I think last night’s episode sort of made up for a rather slow and lackluster season. All-in-all the decision-making reminded me of the Bush administration interagency process. As one of the captains said, “I’m willing to die for a good cause, but this is bullshit.” Meanwhile, the fearless leaders stuffs his face with ice cream while dreaming of Rommel.

It’s all there- projection, distortion, and contempt, all wrapped up in a condescending wrapper of references to pop culture.

BTW- that wasn’t written by Dowd. That was written by the ‘moderate’ Matt Yglesias (who, btw, went to Harvard), and is really smart- just ask him. At anyrate, Dowd would probably need more than two cosmopolitans before writing that crap.

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2Comments

  1. 1.

    Ricky

    June 7, 2004 at 11:08 am

    90 seconds later & I’m still laughing. Priceless….”just ask him”

  2. 2.

    poormedicalstudent

    June 7, 2004 at 5:30 pm

    to quote Shaq: “I’m not fuckin impressed”

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