A journalist in Rome e-mails me:

I just got back from a press conference with Jeb Bush and the rest of the
Presidential delegation.
An Italian journalist asked about Dowd’s column (“in your newspaper, the New
York Times…” “I would just like to make it clear that it is not MY
newspaper”)
Jeb said that Dick Cheney should be proud to be compared to Pope Benedict,
and Pope Benedict should be proud to be compared to Dick Cheney.