Typical Mo Dowd---she simply can't help herself.

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"But if we’re going to have someone who’s removed, always struggling to connect and emote, why not stick with the president we already have?

Better the android you know than the android you don’t know".

Mo Dowd in a nutshell: She writes a pretty good piece about Mitt, and then she fucks it up with this smack at Obama.

Sorry Mo--- Obama is anything but errrrr "removed".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/dowd-mitts-olympic-meddle.html?_r=1&hp

[spanone]

1. we can beat mitt, but can we beat mitt AND the media....? don't know.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Did Rupert Murdoch help out

being a Murdoch newspaper

[still_one]

6. murdoch doesn't own the ny times as far as I know does he? The wall street journal yes, but I am

unaware that he bought the times

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. the Post

oops I think he owns the Post

[still_one]

29. no problem, just wondering if something happened that I wasn't aware of /nt

[lunatica]

3. She gone from cuttingly clever to viciously bitter

I stopped reading her years ago.

[WCGreen]

45. here shtick is all about look how clever I am....

boring due to being stuck in a box...

[still_one]

4. After the ny times helped push us into Iraq based on a lie through judy miller, ny times is just

another rag that try to portray themselves as better than the rest, they aren't

[coalition_unwilling]

23. The NY Times will never get another penny from me as long as I live until and unless

they do the following in the Sunday edition:

Publish a front-page two-column above-the-fold apology to the people of Iraq and of the world for their role in propagandizing for the war

and (of equal importance)

Publish a front-page two-column above-the fold manifesto for an indictment of the Bush Junta for war crimes.

Oherwise, I hope the NYTimes goes fucking bankrupt.

[DemocracyInaction]

5. Right Mo

Just look at those bored unresponsive people at his rallies..............jackass

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7. Beg to differ. She's one of the few at The Times for whom I still have any remaining respect.

Sorry she isn't devout enough.

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9. You sure didn'tad her during the Gore years.

She parroted the Ring Wing meme on Gore more than anyone.

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12. That's just Dowd the political characterturist, at work.

Dowd wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating", while referring to the Democratic party as the "mommy party". Frank Zappa made similar comments about Tipper.

Years later, she said, "I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. That’s not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was – sometimes – a pompous messenger for them." Who can argue with that?

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14. Just head to the Daily Howler--- type in Dowd in the search engine...

and you'll never think of Dowd the same way again.

[leveymg]

16. Went to the Archives - Google won't digest the search term, "Maureen Dowd"

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17. Here ya go.

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/#uds-search-results

[leveymg]

19. Okay, DH is on Blogspot now.

To tell you the truth, I didn't notice the changeover. But, I looked, and what I found was snide, unrelentingly intolerant of difference, and not a trace of a sense of humor.

And, I'm talking about DailyHowler.

For instance, take this little tid-bit:

Truth to tell, Dowd never let up with the earth tones. In 2006, to cite one example, she fell off her meds once again:

DOWD (5/24/06): Enter Ozone Woman

Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole in the ozone layer.

At the National Press Club here yesterday, the New York senator finally took a passionate stand. After giving a courteous nod to her old rival Al as ''a committed visionary on global warming,'' she purloined his issue and his revolution, going his Earth Tones in the Balance one better by wearing a blinding yellow pantsuit that looked as if it could provide solar power to all of Tennessee.

Clinton had spoken about climate change. Inside Dowd’s degenerating brain, it was time to talk earth tones again!

That really only points out the futility of an inferior talent criticizing its betters. We'll have to disagree on this subject.

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22. Somersby is one of the best writers I've ever read on the nets. And I mean ever.

He ripped the shit out of Dowd during the Gore years and for very good reasons.

Many many times she took right wing talking points and used them in her pieces on Gore.

[leveymg]

27. He was Gore's roommate at Harvard. Never said loyalty to friends isn't a good thing

or that Somersby's a bad writer. Just that Dowd is a better writer - but, that doesn't mean that I can't disagree with both on some things, while still respecting their obvious talents and intelligence.

As for Gore, I voted for him on multiple occasions-- by the standards of most American politicians, he's a visionary thinker -- but rarely connected with him emotionally, which tells me he lacks something as a politician, which is not a good thing for him, given his chosen line of work.

Clinton, both of them (c. 1992), and Obama (c.2008), I adored. Supremely gifted, all of them. But, over time my feelings for them have faded, while my political views haven't changed much, merely becoming more disillusioned with the promise of change and hope for the power of gifted leadership. That may tell you more about me than them.

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37. Really?

He lays out the facts over and over about Mo and you push that off because he was a roommate of Gore?

Facts--Facts---Facts.... all archived from Mo's own words.

[leveymg]

39. If you're accusing Dowd of being a secret agent of the GOP, I doubt it. She just doesn't like

American politicians of either party, very much. Did she find Gore pompous and oozing self-importance, making him an easy target for drubbing? Of course. Did she savage the Boy King and War President? Constantly. Does she find Obama a bit robotic in his delivery, sometimes. She isn't the first to take notice of that. Is any of that unfair? Perhaps.

Maureen Dowd is an opinion columnist of a particular and disappearing kind. She makes picking on political figures an art form, and she's polymorphously perverse about it.

But, she is entertaining, even if she is bound to offend someone. It's what she does.

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46. Wrong---

Mo Dowd is takes what she hears at cocktails parties and translates them into her errr opinion pieces.

Gore's oozing self importance? Tell us how you really feel.

[hfojvt]

24. Somerby does have a hard time

finding anything funny about 8 years of President George W. Bush. Nor how Dowd helped to make that happen with her "humor".

I'm not sure how you think that snip proves the massive talent of Dowd. That she uses her forum to turn a discussion about a serious issue into jokes about clothing. Global warming? Haw, haw, haw, a yellow pantsuit, and earth tones. You know, a bullshit meme that the M$M used to help put George W. Bush in the White House. What could be funnier?

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30. yeah, better to have shrub, who presented himself as humble and ordinary.

[hatrack]

36. You know, the One You'd Want To Have A Beer With . . .

Except you couldn't, because he was an angry dry-drunk.

Now we're confronted with the spectacle of someone you couldn't have a beer with - or a cup of coffee, or glass of ice tea, or even a Coke.

That's in addition to not wanting to have a beer with him.

Wonder how they'll spin that into his all-American ordinariness?

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40. at the end of the day, the only thing they really have to sell is greed.

sadly, history (and the republican party in particular) has proven that greed only needs a thin disguise.
most people will buy it every time.

[Greybnk48]

8. She doesn't seem to know how to LIKE a President.

I quit reading her years ago. She's always off balance/not quite right.

[leveymg]

10. That's one of her virtues.

"Afflict the comfortable . . ." and all that.

[hfojvt]

25. yeah, that's MoDo. Fighting for the little people

I did find it to be odd, how she worked so hard to elect Bush, and then had nothing nice to say about the "Boy King".

[BeyondGeography]

32. Mostly, she's just bored

You're kidding yourself if you think she's acting out of any principle.

If anyone struggles to connect with the common man, it's MoDo. She fancies herself as some sort of latter day Dorothy Parker. Except the jokes aren't really funny and fewer people are listening all the time.

[leveymg]

35. I think she's trapped in a dying medium.

There's probably not much of an audience left in a polarized country for a humorist in a glass tower who sees it all as absurd.

The paper she writes for has lost its luster and pretense of being above the fray. Nobody buys the "of record" and "objectivity" and "bipartisanship" bullshit anymore. It may have worked once, until most of America below the 44th Floor ceased to work.

[BeyondGeography]

41. If she actually stood for something, she'd be more relevant

She got lost in the gender-related embroidery of politics a long time ago. Style over substance...there's an argument for it, but not much of one and only when times are good. The shitstorm has hit and she's still talking about the sitcom. I agree that her platform is diminished, but she has kind of pissed away her talent.

[leveymg]

43. Perhaps, Dorothy Parker isn't the one you want on a lifeboat when you're not sure of rescue.

The mood of America today is more the wreck of the Titanic than an afternoon at the bar of the Algonquin Hotel. Maybe another time, another place for such a free-range acerbic wit.

[BeyondGeography]

44. Well put nt

[kwassa]

48. I find Dowd endlessly fascinated by herself.

Nothing else seems important to her.

I also stopped reading her years ago. That kind of narcissism is just uninteresting. It is a mystery why she has a column at all.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. android.. sure..... lets go with that

?w=606

[magical thyme]

31. thank you for this

First thing I thought of were his pix with kids.

Do the world a favor...send those pix to Maureen. Even send a couple showing Mitt with kids. The contrast is so stunning. Maybe that will help her understand the difference between an android and a real, live human who's comfortable in his own skin.

[JoePhilly]

33. We should start faxing these pics, one at a time, to Dowd's office.

Apparently she hasn't seen them.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. For me it's a love/hate relationship reading her articles. Like one minute she pats

a person on the back and the next she is sticking a knife in the back. With her it's a no win situation. Yet I think thats how she wants to come off. She is a good writer.

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15. Which in my MHO---makes her a bad writer....

A gratuitous last minute smack like that makes her no better than these new fangled MSM'ers who think they have to be fair and balanced.

[Greybnk48]

20. Bingo! I'm sick of the "Fair and Balanced" schtick.

That's just a tactic to confuse people. Gotta hate em all or love them all! Bullshit!! Someone is right, someone is wrong. Obama is warm and personable by anyone's standards, and Romney is not. That's a fact, it's not biased. We've seen it over and over.

[trumad]

21. The Repubs cans say the earth is flat...

The MSM will say--- Democrats disagree that the earth is flat, Who is right, who is wrong? Details at 6.

[redqueen]

38. Precisely. nt

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26. wait -- obama's an al green-singing, basketball-playing, joke-cracking android?

who knew?

[JoePhilly]

28. I recall the media claiming Obama was too charismatic, too empathetic ... now he's an Andriod.

What a nitwit.

[PCIntern]

34. Man-hater, pure and simple. Nt

[Greybnk48]

42. That too, IMO n/t

[mnhtnbb]

47. Yeah, I thought it was a great piece until I got to the smack on Obama. WTF?

Yes, he's not Bill Clinton, but he's real...and funny...and empathic.

I wonder whether her editors made her change the piece?

[One of the 99]

49. She has the maturity of an inmature high school girl

writing a slam book.