Hubris unleashed
Fuck that bitch, Dowd. She's just a hater
This was amusing:
All the news that fits on talk TV: It was a New York Times double feature of sorts Thursday night on TV's two biggest talk shows. First, Judith Miller was on "Larry King Live" to discuss leaving the Times and -- to a limited degree -- to talk about her role in the Valerie Plame affair . She said she wouldn't have done anything differently -- in fact, her entire performance was oddly blasé -- and also had some words for ex-colleague Maureen Dowd, who took Miller down in a recent column: "You don't trash colleagues, and you don't trash the institution you're working for," Miller said, adding later that she couldn't remember "a single columnist who ever attacked a colleague." (She also pointed King's viewers to the responses she's posted to her various attackers on her Web site.) A few hours later, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was on "Charlie Rose" to talk about many of the same issues, and also came across rather flat -- saying that "morale is just great" at the paper and the Miller affair was "a rather small bore issue in the big scheme of things" seemed forced. He also went out of his way to stand behind Miller's work and reporting: "I don't believe Judy was running amok, and I mean that sincerely."
Yeah, Judy, I think that was Maureen's point. You don't trash the institution you work for. Which is why Gail Collins wouldn't let you respond. Which is why Adam Clymer called you, in essence, a crazy blackmailer and Johnny Apple wasn't far from that.
Which is also why NONE of your collegues, not David Brooks, not Frank Rich, said as much as a word to defend you. Which is why so many of them ran to Howie Kurtz and Arianna Huffington to toss dirt at you. Which is why the newsroom was less than happy to see you. Which is why Cliff Levy, who covers New York politics, was pissed, as well as his collegues who wrote up what you did.
What they all said, Dowd in words, the rest by omission, was that you had harmed the paper.
Now, it may have been a wee bit nasty to call you a social climbing whore (Becky Sharp means someone was awake in English class in college), Dowd's larger point was that you defended your source at the cost of the reputation of the paper and impeded a criminal investigation. What she didn't say and should have was that you were in the pocket of your sources, slanting stories their way and you pushed your agenda.
But then, she still works at the Times, doesn't she
posted by Steve @ 10:41:00 AM
