Bob Woodruff and the attitude of Maureen Dowd

I woke up this morning, poured myself a cup of coffee and sat down to read my Sunday Washington Post. The Style section had a big feature on the two new telegenic young anchors that ABC had selected to replace the late Peter Jennings, Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Good article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801187.html

I then hopped online to check my email and noticed the headline ABC's Woodruff serioulsy hurt in Iraq. You've probably have already heard that Woodruff and his colleague, cameraman Doug Vogt were riding along in a humvee when the vehicle hit a IED (improvised explosive device), shattering the vehicle and causing shrapenel wounds to the head of both men. An Iraqi soldier was also hurt in the blast. Woodruff and Vogt are in serious condition and it said that the next few days will be critical regarding their outcome.

Woodrull is barely a month into his stint as co-anchor with Vargas. He's 44, married with four children. Trained as an attorney, he decided that the like reporing better, so he switched careers, began in a small market and worked his way to Washington.

I then began to remember a piece I read by the New York Times Maureen Dowd. She decided that ABC wasn't quite ready yet to have a woman anchor by herself, so she wrote "ABC teamed Ms. Vargas with the pretty-boy android Bob Woodruff." That was last December, long before the recent tragic events.

The NY Times now has something called "Times Select" in which it want people to fork over money to read articles form its columnists. So I Googled "Bob Woodruff", "Maureen Dowd", and "android". Here one place I found the article.

http://fbihop.blogspot.com/2005/12/maureen-dowd-can-mommy-know-best.html

Back to the point. Pretty-boy android Bob Woodruff.

That's a sexist derogatory remark. I know that many do not see that anti-male remarks such as this as being sexist, but that's exactly what it is. OK, Woodruff is a good looking guy. I'll also add that Vargas is a very attractive woman. For that matter, I'll also add that Dowd is quite attractive herself.




Isn't she beautiful?

But that android Bob, who worked his way to the top is now lying in a hospital in Ramad, Iraq. God knows how extensive his injuries are. We don't know yet what type of life he will lead, if he'll ever be able to maintain his career in journalism.

But we do know that Dowd has written a book "Are Men Necessary?". Apparently it's about the difficulties that high-powered women have getting dates in Washington. In interviews I've seen her give right after the book was released, she always assured the interviewer that she, of course, had no problem getting dates. But are men necessary? To me Maureen, yes we are. Very much so, thank you. Just like women are.

I say that before the likes of Maureen Dowd judge the professionalism of the likes of Bob Woodruff, Ms. Dowd should take leave of the salons of Georgetown and get her butt in a humvee and roam the streets of a insurgency hotbed area in Iraq.

I'd call Maureen a bimbo, but that would be sexist. So I'll just call her an self-absorbed idiot.

And let's all pray for Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.