Give ‘em Hell, Zell!

Batshit crazy good ol’ boy/Democratic Party black sheep/mass-media dueler Zell “The Animal” Miller has laid into fire-haired political vixen Maureen Dowd on Imus yesterday, questioning not only her stance on secular vs. religious politics and the evangelical movement in our country, but also her hairdresser.

The Post did not mention, however, how much of Zell’s zeal may have come from Dowd mentioning him by name on her appearances on Meet the Press and in her own column space in the New York Times. It’s hard to imagine that the dowdy Dowd’s sober sentiment in her post-election November 4th column (that Miller “was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable”) could have so enraged the sanctimonious Senator. And a quick read of the transcript of Sunday’s Meet the Press found no mention whatsoever of Yosemite Zell by Ms. Dowd or anyone else. So what is it? What’s got the Georgia Destroya in such a huff?

Now you know me, reader, and you know how I hate to be petty…but if this guy’s quaff is not a compelling indictment of the folly of having straight people cut your hair, I don’t know what is.