‘Maureen Dowd as doomed as the caribou’
9th December 2010
Tom Smith at The Right Coast spanks MoDo big-time.
Poor Maureen. She could spend a whole day getting gussied up and she still wouldn’t look half as good as Sarah does in camos. I watched the episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska Ms. Dowd discusses here and she shockingly misrepresents it. Palin switched rifles after a miss but as a subsequent test suggested, the sights on the first weapon were off. She killed the caribou with a good, clean shot. I actually agree with Dowd that the suggestion in the show that hunting on the tundra is a practical way to harvest meat is somewhat misleading, but it’s not misleading at all to suggest it’s great recreation, a way to reconnect with family and you get some meat into the bargain. I would love to go on such a trip. Unless Dowd is suggesting we all give up eating meat, there’s nothing wrong with shooting caribou and eating them. Dowd indulges in poor wittle Bambi fallacy as if her steak tartar comes from the meat fairy. By contrast, we saw a lot of butchering of the Palins’ kill, a lot more than you usually see on hunting shows. There are positively swarms of caribou on the arctic tundra and everything else up there, bears, wolves, skeeters, you name it, eats them, so why shouldn’t the Palins. This is not shooting rhinos for their horns or something.
Maureen Dowd is one of a stable of New York Times writers who seem to have only two columns, one that says ‘I hate Sarah Palin!’ and one that says ‘I hate George W Bush!’, and they keep phoning in versions of those two as long as the Times is willing to pay for it. (Well, actually, to be fair, they have a handful of black writers who have a third column that says ‘You’re all racists out there!’)