Amanda Hess Eviscerates Maureen Dowd For Spectacular Cruelty Against Monica Lewinsky

[kpete]

* Amanda Hess eviscerates New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for the spectacularly cruel way Dowd wrote about Monica Lewinsky over the years:

“Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern”

Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it. the occasion of Lewinsky’s reappearance, Dowd has this to say:

“It was like a Golden Oldie tour of a band you didn’t want to hear in the first place.” What Dowd doesn’t seem to get: She was the one beating the drum.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/08/happy-hour-roundup-350/
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/05/monica_lewinsky_returns_how_maureen_dowd_caricatured_bill_clinton_s_mistress.html

[Jefferson23]

1. That is one damaging piece on Dowd..not that she was much to be proud of in the first place.

A Pulitzer? Ugh.

[Supersedeas]

3. Dowd probably thinks the song is about her

[Jefferson23]

4. Makes me wonder about the Pulitzer...creepy that she would receive it for her work on Lewinsky. n/t

[elleng]

2. I never read dowd.

Life is hard enough.

[840high]

8. ....

[11cents]

5. She's horrid

And given that she owes her career success to being the mistress of a NY Times editor, her attack on Lewinsky was pure projection.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Ow...

rrraare! hissss!

[Whisp]

6. I wonder who got to her. Quite the change in tone from this:

Dowd also had words for feminists who were eager to throw Lewinsky under the bus to save their Democratic overlord: “[O]nce you decide it's O.K. to sacrifice individual women for the greater good, you set a dangerous precedent,” Dowd wrote. “The revolution always eats its own.”

[2banon]

7. Oh my, stay tuned for the Dowd response to Hess