Spinsanity has an excellent debunking of the latest Maureen Dowd fabrication. It's worth a read.

Mouth-frothers who hate the President--whoever the President is--and will spin anything he does in the most negative possible light are simply a fact of life I guess. I sat and watched it during the Reagan years, the Clinton years, and now I watch it during Bush '43. It's sad, but I begin to believe it's simply the nature of the beast: "if you don't agree with me, it's because you're wicked" is just the way some people's minds work.

Still, how this woman got a New York Times column (and the issued-by-regulation Pulitzer that seems to go with it) is beyond me. She was a snarky, shallow twit when she was writing about Clinton, and she's even worse now.

She's at her worst when she just makes stuff up. I saw that most clearly when she twisted Bush's statement at a debate, where he said that the most influential political philosopher for him was Jesus Christ, into a secret code for "you're all in the Christ club or not." What a vicious, hate-filled bigot that woman is.

This woman is the kind of person who would turn John Ashcroft urging a group of his fellow Christians to remember that they have no king but Jesus into an assault on the first amendment. It takes a certain kind of twisted bigotry in a person's soul to think that way. I find such people every bit as upsetting and disturbing as I find people who rant about lazy niggers, disgusting fags, or greedy Jews. It's too bad that's so commonplace and so socially acceptable these days. It really is.