Dowd has this thing for Saudi despots. Princes, Ambassadors, anyone representing this foul regime, and she goes all gooey. Remember last year, when in no less than three articles, she let herself be punked by Prince Saud (he of the "aviator glasses", and "demeanor of a Hollywood mogul"). Why, she even headlines one of those articles "Loosey goosey Saudi" bringing to mind Henry Miller's use of "wet as a goose"....
It's enough for these louche apologists for the most barbaric regime in the world to look sideways at her and she goes all wet at the knees.
Take her latest swooning, over Saudi Ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir:
She talks of the "slender, smartly tailored ambassador", of his "equanimity", of his staying "cool" in the face of threats, of his "dry smile" when he talks to her in "his whispery voice" [oh... how I wish he would whisper over the outline of my body...]
Forget the country al-Jubeir represents; forget Saudi funding of fundamentalist, wahhabi schools throughout the Muslim world; forget their training cadres of youth to hate and fight the west; forget their funding of Muslim Brotherhood fronts in the US and elsewhere in the world; forget their treatment of women, of homosexuals, of non-Muslims.
Forget all that.
All it takes is for a Saudi prince or ambassador to flutter his eyes, to whisper in his dry, cool voice, and Dowd is down for the count, dripping with lust, all "loosey goosey"....
Hell's bells, my dear, do pull yourself together!
It's enough for these louche apologists for the most barbaric regime in the world to look sideways at her and she goes all wet at the knees.
Take her latest swooning, over Saudi Ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir:
“They [the religious police] say they can see the outline of your body,” Jubeir translated.You just know that she's thinking of him seeing the "outline of her body". How? Well, try this:
She talks of the "slender, smartly tailored ambassador", of his "equanimity", of his staying "cool" in the face of threats, of his "dry smile" when he talks to her in "his whispery voice" [oh... how I wish he would whisper over the outline of my body...]
Forget the country al-Jubeir represents; forget Saudi funding of fundamentalist, wahhabi schools throughout the Muslim world; forget their training cadres of youth to hate and fight the west; forget their funding of Muslim Brotherhood fronts in the US and elsewhere in the world; forget their treatment of women, of homosexuals, of non-Muslims.
Forget all that.
All it takes is for a Saudi prince or ambassador to flutter his eyes, to whisper in his dry, cool voice, and Dowd is down for the count, dripping with lust, all "loosey goosey"....
Hell's bells, my dear, do pull yourself together!
