Galas and Puffs

by digby

In addition to D-day’s and Molly Ivors’ Dowd take downs today, Somerby also deconstructs her column in his own inimitable style.

He gives her some advice about on particular passage:

Obama went to the ShopRite on April 9. There is no record of him buying “cheese balls.” The Philly Inquirer said that he “picked up a few Gala apples, a bag of cheese puffs, a bottle of water, and a box of Butterscotch Krimpets.” Note to Dowd: Next time, why not fashion a “gay joke” from “Gala?”

She must have been under the weather this week or didn’t read the full account of his purchases because normally, there’s no way she wouldn’t have spat out that Obama “purchased a Gala apple, cheese puffs and Butterscotch Krimpets at a ShopRite in East Norriton.” It’s just a big fat one right over Dowd’s homophobic, sexist plate.

If it were anyone else, I’d say that an editor thought it it was too obvious and cliche and cut the passage, but this is Dowd we’re talking about. There are no limits to her puerile little gags. She’s off her game. But then it’s hard being so juvenile at her age week after week. She’s probably feeling burned out.

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