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...many feminists, however, my mother’s actions are dismaying. In her 2005 book “Are Men Necessary?,” The New York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies...
...Bush threw millions at TV too (he favored Cops and JAG), but his ads also appeared on cable, talk radio, blogs, the Internet and, in several cases, closed-circuit televisions above health-club treadmills. "We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist in '04. "They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel...
...efficiencies of the Internet, Bush strategist Dowd thinks the Web has its limits. "Our research shows it's great for driving partisan activity and fund raising," says Dowd, "but less effective at persuasion in a political sense. That's why we're really pushing this idea of what I call navigators." In 2004 the G.O.P. mined its database to identify 10,000 African-American "team leaders" who, in exchange for VIP treatment, like getting to shake hands with the President in front of Air Force One, would voluntarily talk up Republican policies to their friends...
...would have done it if I had known what it really was. I had no idea that it would take this big a toll." She did it in order to write a book, Self-Made Man (Viking; 290 pages), about how the other half lives. Kind of like Maureen Dowd but with research...
...York Times that Vice President Cheney's residence is intentionally blurred on Google Earth-- the software that allows users to see satellite photos of any spot on the planet--though the White House itself is visible. Bush-bash bloggers like GEM'S GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE cheered, "Maureen Dowd Is the Best!!" for her column crying hypocrisy over what she called the Veep's "pathological secrecy." OGLE EARTH, however, deemed Dowd's piece little more than a "conspiracy theory," and ANGEL DRESSED IN BLACK asked, "Does anyone really think that it's out of line to obscure the details of high-profile...