May 23, 2003

HORSEFEATHERS LITERARY POSEUR AWARD

The winner gets to date Maureen Dowd:

        "This eulogy owes nothing to artifice or chance. It has ripened inside me since childhood...From the bottom of my pockets, stuck to the back of my smock, hidden in the corner of abacuses, poetry gushed out, scribbled on scraps of paper, anxiety drove my mother to stick poems everywhere, in verse or prose, quatrains or alexandrines."

        The author of this deathless prose: none other than Dominique de Villepin, who, acccording to the Telegraph (5-22-03), "bares his soul" as France's politician poet.

         Maureen Dowd's favorite Frenchman, Monsieur de Villepin, had already shown his Postmodern skills by divesting the UN resolution he himself had negotiated, of its consensual meaning. Ms. Dowd, it would seem, is now emulating de Villepin by creating "narrative truths" that reverse and reinvent the statements of President Bush. As reported by Spinsanity
"Maureen Dowd: Dowd spawns Bush media myth
"The New York Times columnist's distorted quotation of President Bush has spread throughout the national and international press...".

        It seems to Horsefeathers that the haughty French Pomo poseur, and the self obsessed, Bush despising Francophile, Ms. Dowd, would make a perfect match.