MoDo nails it

In her latest, NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd takes the gloves off. Go read it.

Sadly, instances of such writing are rare in our thoroughly cowed major media. Guess MoDo isn't afraid of the wrath of the Bush enforcers.

"It was remarkable to see President Bush lecture Vladimir Putin on the importance of checks and balances in a democratic society.
Remarkably brazen, given that the only checks Mr. Bush seems to believe in are those written to the "journalists" Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Karen Ryan, the fake TV anchor, to help promote his policies. The administration has given a whole new meaning to checkbook journalism, paying a stupendous $97 million to an outside P.R. firm to buy columnists and produce propaganda, including faux video news releases.

The only balance W. likes is the slavering, Pravda-like "Fair and Balanced" coverage Fox News provides."