Saturday, April 21, 2012

Gail Collins Again "Off Today": Has She Fallen Victim to the Dogs of War?

Go to the online opinion page of The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html), and you will learn that Gail Collins is again "off today," after being "off today" also on Thursday, her prior time slot. What has happened to poor Gail? Has she fallen victim to the dogs of war?

You will recall that it all started when Donald Trump sent to Collins a copy of her column with "The Face of a Dog!" written over her picture (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/09/donald-trump-gail-collins-new-york-times_n_847015.html).

Collins retaliated by weaving Mitt Romney's 1983 Seamus story into most of her recent op-eds (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/gail-collins-mitt-romney-dog-seamus_n_1331625.html). This lame "running joke" - How will she ever integrate Seamus into her next column? - had her doltish readership in stitches.

But then came the news which was impossible for Collins to swallow: Obama ate dogs in Indonesia (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2012/04/has-gail-collins-resigned-from-new-york.html).

Given her absence from the op-ed page of the Times, it would appear that Collins is having difficulty digesting this information. Tough, very tough.

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