NP Dowd (WAS: Mason-Dixon line politics)

[kevin at limits.org]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> From: Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com>
> Subject: Re: more Mason-Dixon Line politics
> 
> Maureen Dowd is an awkward satirist because she is too much part of what
> she mocks.

But she doesn't know that (she thinks she does, but she misses it).  What
she mocks is Bad Taste; her only commandment seems to be Thou Shalt Not Be
Tacky In My Town.  The only problem is that writing dozens of column
inches about how the Clintons must be shameless to buy a big house in
Northwest, and how it's sooo obnoxious to have Texans at the inauguration
is, in itself, tacky.

It is also Pulitzer-winning journalism, today.

Kevin Troy