Wonkette's Dog Day at the NYT

Today is Ana Marie Cox day at the NYT! Not only does the newly-departed Wonkette have an op-ed on Jack Abramoff and Washington’s “fascinatingly filthy underbelly” but she gets the star treatment from David Carr over in the Books section, who reviews her trajectory and also mini-reviews her book, taking the sting out of Janet Maslin‘s dismissive review. (Carr quotes WaPo‘s former “Reliable Source” columnist Richard Lieby calling Cox “a wicked humorist” and says the book succeeds “in mastering the modalities of communication in Washington.