Dowd-y pop culture sandwich tastes stale
Like every other New York Times reader, Fishbowl enjoys the occasional fix of Maureen Dowd. But ever since she came back from vacation, are we the only ones who have noticed that her column not only sounds as if it’s the same one, recycled for your protection with a new lede and a couple of reworked pop culture similies (tired ones)?
Would we also be thought of as petty and small if we mention that the most recent column – which compares George Bush to saffron-colored cartoon hero Spongebob Squarepants – is nearly indistinguishable from earlier columns trying vainly to insert the Administration into various ill-fitting movie scenarios, all of them monochromatically casting Dick Cheney as Darth Vader, Bush as a cowboy, or Donald Rumsfeld as Dr.
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