{"id":1283,"date":"2005-10-26T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/dowd_dicks_around\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T16:34:59","slug":"dowd_dicks_around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/dowd_dicks_around.html","title":{"rendered":"DOWD DICKS AROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend Maureen Dowd&#8217;s neatly executed tribute to Vice,  the Bullshitter-in-Chief&#8217;s pet moniker for the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/24\/politics\/24cnd-leak.html?ei=5094&#038;en=db7d02c93e5913ef&#038;hp=&#038;ex=1130212800&#038;partner=homepage&#038;pagewanted=print\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Leaker-in-Chief<\/font><\/strong><\/a>. She&#8217;s on the button again this morning, and she also gets away with an excellent headline, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/26\/opinion\/26dowd.html?hp\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Dick at the Heart of Darkness.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\nIf the double entendre isn&#8217;t clear enough, her column begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After W. was elected, he sometimes gave visitors a tour of the love alcove off the Oval Office where Bill trysted with Monica &#8212; the notorious spot where his predecessor had dishonored the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gets too cute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least it was only a little pantry &#8212; and a little panting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then shows she&#8217;s not just dicking around:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If W. wants to show people now where the White House has been dishonored in far more astounding and deadly ways, he&#8217;ll have to haul them around every nook and cranny of his vice president&#8217;s office, then go across the river for a walk of shame through the Rummy empire at the Pentagon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yawp. &#8230;. Sputt. &#8230;  We&#8217;re suddenly having computer trouble. &#8230; Part of our ongoing Dell saga of laptop motherboard issues. &#8230; Arrgghhh. &#8230; We&#8217;ll just have to post this item as is. &#8230; Back when possible. &#8230; Going on the dial to India. &#8230; Glub glub glub. &#8230; <i>Sauve qui peut. &#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend Maureen Dowd&#8217;s neatly executed tribute to Vice, the Bullshitter-in-Chief&#8217;s pet moniker for the &#8220;Dick at the Heart of Darkness.&#8221; If the double entendre isn&#8217;t clear enough, her column begins: After W. was elected, he sometimes gave visitors a tour of the love alcove off the Oval Office where Bill trysted with Monica &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}