Maureen Klings On A Bit Too Much

Sure, I'm a Star Trek fan. And I've always liked Maureen Dowd's culture-laden columns-- especially when they focused on the disfunctional Bush family. But me thinks the Doyenne of Dis stretched a bit too far with the strained references in her May 9 column, comparing Barack Obama to Spock. Yep, you got that right-- Barack is likened to Spock, and he will save journalism from annihilation. The tortured lead:

I dreamed that Spock saved our planet, The Daily Planet of journalism. Instead of swooping in to figure out the dimensionality and logarithms to rescue the world from red matter, as Spock does in J. J. Abrams’s dazzling new “Star Trek,” I imagined Spock rescuing read matter for the world. Newspapers are an “endangered species,” as John Kerry called us in a Senate hearing last week, just as the Vulcans are in the new prequel.

Nevertheless, I did enjoy the following section, comparing the Bushies to Borg villains:

Commanding his own unwieldy starship of blended species, with Cheney, Limbaugh and other pitiless Borg aliens firing phasers from all sides, Mr. Obama has certainly invoked Mr. Spock’s Vulcan philosophy of “Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” And he even recruited some impulsive Rahmulen muscle for his Utopia.

And finally-- even though the star fleet pin was a nice touch, the photo illustration came across as a bit too creepy. Sigh . . . Maureen just hasn't been the same since Bush left the White House.