Hillary Clinton roasts NYT's Maureen Dowd over column

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday jabbed at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd over her opinion piece that incorrectly stated a woman hadn't been on the Democratic presidential ticket in 36 years.

"Either @TimKaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again," Clinton tweeted, referring to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), her running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket in 2016.

Link to tweet

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Dowd's column centered around Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 was the first female vice presidential candidate for a major American political party.

Ferraro and Walter Mondale, the Democratic ticket that cycle, lost in a landslide to former President Reagan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hillary-clinton-roasts-nyts-maureen-dowd-over-column/ar-BB17JyhX?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

[TreasonousBastard]

1. To be precise, Mondale did put Ferraro on the ticket while Kaine had nothing...

to do with putting Hillary on the ticket.

"it has been 36 years since a man chose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him"-- what part of that is unclear?

[Keth]

3. I know.

Hillary must have read it wrong. Maybe, she was the one enjoying the pot brownie. Good for her - she deserves a few Alice B. Toklas' brownies in her life after all she's been through. Even a Cheech and Chong supersized joint every now and then.

[mr_lebowski]

5. Oh that wasn't real, man ... Chong just filled it full of old socks and stuff (nt)

[JI7]

7. Dowds tweet is edited

[spooky3]

8. Per the NYT, the headline and part of the text were corrected

AFTER HRC’s and probably lots of other people’s responses

[TreasonousBastard]

11. And my response to that is a big fucking "So what?" This is just more sidetracking...

bullshit and using up too much air.

[NYC Liberal]

9. That's the corrected version. The original article said:

“It has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.”

[comradebillyboy]

15. NYT edited the tweet after Hillary's comment

The original tweet.

Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.

[sandensea]

2. And of course...

[mr_lebowski]

4. Can someone post the part of the Dowd's article that's actually incorrect?

Because the quoted tweet is accurate.

[JI7]

6. That's the edited version. Someone else might have the original

[TreasonousBastard]

10. OMIGOD! How many reivisons and ecuses do we need?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hillary-clinton-roasts-nyt-s-maureen-dowd-over-column/ar-BB17JyhX

Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.

Note that everyone forgot McCain put Caribou Barbie on the ticket, so the latest revision was "Democratic ticket"

Personally, this is another tempest in a teapot and is completely, totally meaningless.

IGNORE IT!

[Celerity]

12. here

Correction: Aug. 8, 2020
An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated the history of the Democratic ticket. It has been 36 years since a man chose a woman to run as his vice-president on the Democratic ticket, not 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.

[mr_lebowski]

13. Cool thx Cel. I figured Hillary was right, but just wanted confirmation :) nt

[Celerity]

14. Further background

Maureen Dowd Freaked Out on Weed Chocolate Because She's Stupid

The New York Times columnist's tale of getting too high on edibles raises some intriguing points about packaging and the potency of edibles and whatnot. But let's be honest, all she had to do was ask the state-licensed dispensary employees who'd...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvqbav/maureen-dowd-freaked-out-on-weed-chocolate-because-shes-stupid

Maureen Dowd, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1999, might have asked a few more questions before biting into that edible. Many people have overdone it on marijuana edibles and lived to tell a harrowing tale, including yours truly, a guy who now writes a column for VICE about cannabis cuisine called The Weed Eater. So if I've personally fallen victim to THC-infused food, how can I possibly justify calling Maureen Dowd stupid for stepping into the very same pothole?

Because the night I bit off a bit more brownie than I could chew, I obtained the cannabis confection in question from a well-meaning hippie outside a Grateful Dead show who made them way too strong and never warned me about the delayed onset of effects when you digest pot in your stomach instead of absorbing it through your lungs. And so, I initially ate only a quarter brownie, per the nice hippie's recommendation, but then, ten minutes later, when nothing happened, I chowed down on the rest—assuming one of Jerry's Kids had just scammed me out of $5 in exchange for a stale, high-less treat.

And what happened next? Well, let's just say we all make youthful mistakes, and I'm lucky I took such a large dose of a drug with incredibly low toxicity or I might indeed be dead. Around 1,500 people die from accidental alcohol poisoning every year in America, after all, even though booze is perfectly legal and sold in bottles clearly labeled with all relevant potency information. Which brings us to Ms. Dowd, who, in a New York Times column published Tuesday, described departing from her typical “drug of choice,” chardonnay, in order to sample a cannabis chocolate from one of Colorado's new recreational marijuana stores.



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