Ann Coulter: Under En-Dowd

Ann Coulter
Jan. 19, 2017

To celebrate Donald Trump's inauguration this week, I'm returning to my new favorite parlor game: quoting Republican consultants on the 2016 campaign.

It never gets old! Also, this exercise reminds us of the many things we are thankful for this week: Donald Trump, the cluelessness of his opponents, and Nexis transcripts.

Our featured GOP consultant this week is Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign and modern-day Mr. Magoo.

Nominally a conservative in a liberal business, Dowd couldn't pull off a full Arianna, so if he wanted to sit in a warm studio on Sunday mornings issuing pronouncements as if from Mount Olympus, he had to come up with an act.

Even a guy like Dowd -- wrong on everything else, from the time of day to whether it's raining -- accurately sussed out what the media wanted: a non-conservative playing "the conservative." How else to explain the fact that the entire American media refused to have on anyone who supported the man who just won a landslide presidential election?

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