With Friends Like Maureen Dowd, Obama Doesn’t Need Enemies
The good news for the White House is that some of President Obama’s critics are a blessing. But the bad news is that some of his supporters are a curse.
Obama’s critics can be so clumsy, petty, and disrespectful as to make the president look good by comparison. Meanwhile, his supporters are so blind to his faults that they hurt him by making excuses and slandering opponents instead of offering constructive criticism.
Witness the health care debate. When Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) embarrassed himself by yelling out “you lie!” during a presidential address to Congress, after Obama claimed that health care reform legislation would not provide benefits to illegal immigrants, it was a gift for the White House.
Not only did that lame stunt help solidify the Republicans’ reputation as “the party of no” and play into the narrative of the GOP as the party of intolerance, it also provided the Obama-fawning media with a convenient distraction that allowed it to gloss over more pressing issues in the debate. So instead of talking about the pickle that Obama is in trying to please both liberal and conservative Democrats or asking how the administration can achieve what would seem to be the unattainable trifecta of expanding coverage, keeping costs down, and protecting the coverage that people already have, the media spent several days focused on Wilson’s outburst. With enemies like this, who needs friends?
But there’s another side to that coin. When Obama supporters pounce on Republican missteps and try to deflect any negative criticism by making the GOP the issue, they’re not doing the president any favors. In fact, all they’re doing is glossing over the flaws in Obama’s health care plan and the pitiful way in which he has handled the issue. Listening to Obama’s die-hard supporters, you’d never know that 52 percent of Americans — according to a recent Associated Press poll — disapprove of the president’s handling of health care.
Nor are Obama’s supporters doing him much good when they try to portray his critics as defective in some way — intolerant, racist, mean-spirited, or, in the case of Wilson, just plain rude. Hopefully, Americans see through that.
“Nor are Obama’s supporters doing him much good when they try to portray his critics as defective in some way — intolerant, racist, mean-spirited, or, in the case of Wilson, just plain rude. Hopefully, Americans see through that.”
Ummm your kidding right… this is your standard SOP for anyone that disagrees with you…yes you personally… its also standard SOP for all leftwing nutters.
Must we link to only about 5 different pieces that you wrote in PJM alone where you say anyone that opposes your ideas is racist…and that here… I can only guess what you write when you know the group your writing for is as insane as you.
When the camera goes off and your in front of friendly crowd like all leftwing nutters you say what we all know you believe…
ACORN, obama and countless other leftwingers get tagged all the time when they think no one is recording them…you are no different.
First it was Bush distracting us by telling us everything was all right with the economy, and then having everyone in turmoil just before the election so he could pass TARP. Then it was the Bailouts and Stimulus of Obama with all the added distractions including the beer summit between Gates and the cop. Now it’s this Joe Wilson outburst on top of the Cash for Clunkers to distract us from this Health Care takeover. Let’s focus on what’s happening in this country with the enormous debt we are building up and stay on message. And let’s keep informed at theaveragejoe.us to understand what’s going on. Check out the debt clock to see where we are today and not be distracted anymore by this silliness. If the President’s people want to divert attention from the debt and health care debate maybe they should invite Joe Wilson over to the White House for a beer. There’s already a rumor that he and Michele have set up a coffee for John and Kate.
Those who frivolously accuse the critics of Obama’s methods and policies of “racism” are doing for race relations what Chicken Little did for meteorology — nothing good.
‘So instead of talking about the pickle that Obama is in…..the media spent several days focused on Wilson’s outburst. With enemies like this, who needs friends?’
What makes you think the media would have talked about the pickle that Obama is in? I’m afraid this is a very empty piece of reasoning.
For a President who joked about the Special Olympics, there’s an ironic “special ed” vibe to his base of support. Overweening and overly protective, they treat him like he’s developmentally disabled. They show up for all of his games and cheer wildly for his clumsy pitches. When he declares there are 57 states, they insist he’s tired and needs a nap.
They write him bad, encouraging poetry (“My little brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber”) and sneak the verse into his bag lunch. And any schoolyard “bully” who challenges their brave, brainy black President is a “raaaaacist.” They never let him forget he’s their super-special favorite fella and, oh yeah, he’s black.
Their love for him seems to start and end with his being black. Every thing they write about him mentions his race. How exhausting it must be for Barack to endure the “encouragement” of these strange supporters.
Jesse Helms was once derided as “Senator No”. He co-opted that and started wearing a button saying “No”.
I’d be quite happy for the Republicans to re-discover their spine and become “The Party of No”. As in “no you can’t” to Obama’s “yes we can”.
You’re right Mike but it’s already way too late. I’m waiting for Serena Williams to accuse the line judge of being racist. Even Charlie Rangel played the race card. Nobody cares anymore what vile names you call us, it’s your own bigotry that forces you to focus on race and it’s your lack of independent thought that reduces your argument to childish name-calling.
The moment we stop being embarrassed by Joe Wilson and embrace not only what he said, but the fact that he stood up and said it… that will be the moment the Republican party has meaning again.
If it was tactless for Wilson to blurt it out, then it was even more so for Obama to use the entire speech to accuse Republicans of lying. Wilson said nothing about Obama that Obama wasn’t up there saying about us.
Oh, but there is one big difference… Wilson’s outburst was spontaneous and unplanned. Obama’s character assassinations were with aforethought and malice.
Maureen Dowd is one of the many reasons I stopped buying the NYT. If I happen to be listening to Imus and she comes on as a guest I shut the radio off.
We conservatives need to damage the value of companies like that owned by the Sulzeburger family, GE and other media corporations. If you hire Maureen Dowd, we don’t buy your publication and read it’s advertising.
If the majority identify themselves as conservatives, we need to start using economic power to influence the economic health of the opponent. Stop buying the product conservatives. Exercise your right as a consumer. Let’s force the left wing companies into chapter 7.
Let’s see now, the Democrats have accused anyone who disagrees (disagrees, mind you) with Obama as being “a racist, a Nazi, a Brown Shirt (same thing), crazy, astroturf, rude, part of the Brooks Brothers crowd (remember that one), a mob, and un-American,” to name just a few things said by Pelosi, Reid, and their minions. Funny, I don’t seem to remember them being so civil when George W. Bush was president, especially when that weasel Harry Reid said that Bush “Lied” about everything. Democrats can’t help saying that everybody else are liars, such as when Pelosi recently said that people in the CIA are “Liars” and that they always “Lie” to Congress. Where was the liberal outrage then? Where is it now against Pelosi regarding her CIA comments? Hypocrisy is too kind a word to bestow upon such creatures.
Remember, gang, 2010 and 2012. Vote all of the bums out of office. Maybe then they will see what this “mob” can do. Personally, I hope Pelosi and Reid will one day be forced to go through the dumpsters at KFC for their meals after the next set of elections. One can only hope.
Agree with Ken above. Wilson focused the debate on the content like we would not otherwise have seen without his interjection. If Stretch Pelosi insists on a house debate for censure (meaningless, by itself) it will likewise permit those few Republicans with a spine to point out at great length the statements of Stark, Waxman, and all the other traitors.
Had it not occurred we would have heard nothing but puff pieces with the same message: “Just go along with us, we know what is good for you”. No details, none reading aloud the actual content….just generic charges of racism and bigotry.
Poor Maureen Dowd. Her sass has turned crass as she is beginning more and more to look and sound like a cranky old Helen Thomas. Lash out at anyone who dares criticize this “brainy” black guy (say, does that mean he has unlocked his school records and writings?)and launched a mean spirited attack on anyone who dares to question the narrative adhered to by Obama’s MSM minions. She is no longer cute and she is begining to sound like a nagging, bitter wife, sans husband. Her writing is going to make her irrelevant.
President Obama and the Democrat Party are looting, pillaging, and violating everyone and everything yet I’m suppose to fret over one guy who spoke truth in just one simple word?
Ruben Navarrette Jr., the professional image-makers obsession with protecting image is ridiculous.
Your lecture is about as meaningless as Maureen Dowd’s life.
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It’s the Maureen Dowds of the world who keep bringing up how Obama is black – everyone else has moved on to other and more important things about him. It’s like they can’t see him as another president, they have to keep segregating him as a BLACK president. They’re so obsessed with his race that they can’t help projecting their obsession onto everyone else.
I’d be delighted to vote for the Party of No. Where do I sign up?
“Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber,” Dowd wrote. “Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
The obvious plain truth.
Many pajammers express it all the time.
I don’t blame them, their insecurities show.
Bobby Jindal has no chance.
Ruben:
You’re right about Wilson giving the media something to chew on (which they proceeded to do in their own double-standard fashion), and providing the Dems with something to gin-up their faux-outrage calliope.
I will point out that the president wasted a good deal of his time that evening accusing his opponents of deliberately peddling misinformation and engaging in willful obstructionism cloaked in fraudulent objections — anything but having substantive disagreements with him. In other words, he impugned their motives and accused them of dishonesty. Or, in other words, lying.
Perhaps that’s why he was so quick to accept Wilson’s apology.
“I pointed out to my liberal colleagues”
Ah ha!
10. Libertyship46:
“Funny, I don’t seem to remember them being so civil when George W. Bush was president, especially when that weasel Harry Reid said that Bush “Lied” about everything.”
Bush lied about everything.
Ask Laura.
P.S. He isn’t ‘black’, he’s ‘mulatto’.
Maureen who? The New York Times Here’s their new masthead: The newspaper 303,000,000 millions Americans don’t read. Yes, the Times circulation really is that irrelevant.
Opened this up to read about Dowd.
All I got was Wilson.
Buen hecho, Rubén. Listo.
Can Americans get off this Black business please? Obama’s pigmentation is historically significant. However, I am opposed to him, not because of his color, but because of his policies.
One of the striking things about Saturday’s protest was the number of African Americans who participated. Many were evangelicals who are sick about what the left stands for. Others were constitutionally oriented individuals who look at the world the way I do.
My ancestors fought on the Union side in the Civil War. People in our country need to stop judging people based on race and start judging them based on character, as Dr. King instructed. That goes for everyone. I am sick and tired of the industry that is perpetuated by Rev Jackson, Al Sharpton and Prof Gates who scream racism everytime something happens to a person of color. Similarly I am nausiated by the skinheads and other simpletons who prejudge others based on color.
Grow up and start looking at what the person believes. It is the true window to human intellect and soul. That goes for everyone.
“Obama’s critics can be so clumsy, petty, and disrespectful as to make the president look good by comparison. Meanwhile, his supporters are so blind to his faults that they hurt him by making excuses and slandering opponents instead of offering constructive criticism.”
Change the name in the first sentence and you have modern politics in a nutshell. Apart from that your article is disingenous at best.
Maureen who? She is the underbelly of a dying organization. A hag.
The liberals keep bringing up the racial issues, and libs only…it’s getting old.
Obama is an elitist and doesn’t care what America thinks.
JOE WILSON NEEDS OUR SUPPORT. the left if trying to make this into a national tragedy. It’s laughable when we look at the things they have done and said about Republican presidents. Republicans need to either take off the gloves and fight like the left, or leave ..
NO ONE SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR THIS MAN. He was right and the liberals have a tough time with that.
Joe Wilson did with his two true words what Sarah Palin did with her two: drove a sharp point right into the heart of the matter, sending Democrats scrambling like cockroaches in one of Obama’s condemned Chicago tenements. “You lie!”! “Death panel!”! Reminds me of a brave American in a moment of crisis who said “Let’s roll!”; this time it’s The Republic being hijacked.
A Black man can’t be criticized. No matter what he does we have to turn the other way and like it. I want to see Obama play the race card one more time. I think that will snap the remaining support he has.
Mr. Navarrette,
Shhhhhhh . . . . Please. Don’t give it away.
I hope they think articles like this one are cleverly trying to keep them from continuing an effective tactic. I’d hate to see these folks wise up. In fact, I don’t know why you’d warn this crowd about what they’re doing while the toss a rope over the rafter and get ready to climb up on their suicide stool. They have everything they ever wanted and they still have to make excuses rather than gloating or attacking, isn’t that reason enough to let them keep on making excuses rather than getting in their way?
Regards
Ok. We’ve officially entered the Twilight Zone. Navarrette is criticizing Dowd for throwing the race card around recklessly.
I think I’m going to have some WTF for breakfast.
burp –
Are you SURE he’s black? I mean, he looks sort of brownish to me. Maybe a dark brown, but not THAT dark. Oh, I don’t know, I’m gettin’ kinda’ old these days and my eyesight sure ain’t what it used to be, so maybe he IS black. On the other hand, maybe you’re just not lookin’ that close…
Aw hell, why do we have to keep rehashing this nonsense? Can’t we just talk about the MAN, without having to discuss his color? Honestly, I never think about his color; he has so many other attributes and qualities that attract attention that his color is lost in the clutter.
At least, that’s true for us non-racists! Maybe you RACISTS need new glasses!!?
Americans were never on it. It’s the media who are. And no, they’re not going to get off it. Following a simple narrative about race is easier than thinking, and so far, it’s paid pretty good wages.
We elected a black man President. As far as I am concerned we have wiped the “Americans are racists” slate clean. Let the Dems and others keep on playing the race card; nobody cares anymore. Guys like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are totally irrelevant. As for Modo, her column was almost as pathetic as her column years ago about advice to the lovelorn: Modo couldn’t get a date in a men’s prison on New Year’s Eve if she were waiving a bottle of Scotch in one hand a fistfull of hundreds in the other.
Mr. Navarette:
“When Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) embarrassed himself by yelling out “you lie!” during a presidential address to Congress, after Obama claimed that health care reform legislation would not provide benefits to illegal immigrants, it was a gift for the White House.”
Perhaps in your eyes and in the Moonbat nests that make up newspaper editorial boards it did, but those of us paying attention saw that immediately thereafter, the HCR bill was amended REQUIRING people to prove legal residency before presenting the bill for their medical care to Uncle Sam, and not leave the thing implied.
Congressman Wilson did every American taxpayer a great service by calling The Alleged Hawaiian what he IS…a liar.
It worked.
#9 Samizdat:
“We conservatives need to damage the value of companies like that owned by the Sulzeburger family, GE and other media corporations.”
Could we do a BETTER job of it than they are already doing themselves?
and #24:
“Can Americans get off this Black business please? ”
Without race, what becomes of Democrats?
Class envy, Feminism and Eco-politics only get your collectivist neo-Marxmobile so far down the Statist road, doesn’t it?
Hey Vivo #20, Nice to see that you stopped drinking the Kool Aid long enough to type out a few demented words. Yes, in your own, paranoid, little world everybody else is a liar, as long as they agree with you. What a pathetic fool you are. Why don’t you and “Now and Then” get a room so you can have some real fun together. I’m sure you could get your pal, George Soros, to pay for it. You MoveOn types really need some serious therapy. You can never win on the merits of an argument. All you can do is call everybody who doesn’t agree with you a liar.
Please, Oh Please, make my day and say that you’re a 9/11 Truther as well. That would just reinforce to everyone what a true idiot you really are.
Joe Wilson “embarrassed” himself? Really? Did the little boy who shouted that the emperor had no clothes on embarrass himself?
10. Libertyship46:
I beg your pardon– but it’s not all Democrats. My hubby and I are Dems also — at least we were, and we cannot abide what this President is doing, nor how he demonizes everyone who does not worship him. You might be surprised by how many Dems did not vote for him. I hasten to remind you that 6 million Republicans sat on their hands this last election rather than vote for McCain. Anyone doubt he would have been better than who we have now? Hillary certainly would have been the best of the three but that choice was removed by Pelosi and her backstabbing cronies.
Problem the Obamanauts have been using the race card so long that it’s going to be really hard to give ‘em up. Maybe they need a self help group like AA.
“Hi, My name is Brad, I’m addicted to cries of racism”
Bilgeman at 36,
Thanks for your accurate response. I know too many people though who are conservative, but still buy the NYT or the Boston Globe, or look at NBC. You have to think more carefully about the impact of your daily finacial decisions and the unintended consequences.
You are also correct about the Democrat reflexive victimization via race tactic. It has achieved “The boy who cried wolf” status, but it is still lame in the extreme and I felt that needed to be pointed out.
Ani – (39)
“I hasten to remind you that 6 million Republicans sat on their hands this last election rather than vote for McCain.”
I think there were probably that many democrats who sat on the sidelines as well, especially since Hillary was counted out before she should have been. The democrat arrangement for delegates borders on insanity. As I understand it, someone could actually have fewer votes in primaries than the person they push aside in the delegate count.
That said I can’t understand people from either party who just sit on their hands rather than voting. I’ve seen far too many state and local elections decided by a few dozen votes to think that it’s ever reasonable to not participate. A lot of republicans, though, think they’ll “teach them a lesson” if they let the other side win. They can’t grasp the fact that there’s no guarantee you can always recover from “the other guy”. Obama has done so much already that it will take decades to recover, and if he does much more it will be generations before we recover.
Regards
All the way to the bank. His reelection fund raised one million in 48 hours, and it’s not even campaign season. We need a few more Republicans willing to embarrass themselves like that.
The plagiarizing Maureen Dowd is a has-been. What do people in that situation do? Shout & shout louder to gain some attention. Why doesn’t she join MSNBC and become co-shouter with uncle Olby? Come to think of it; neither ego could take the other…
JCL
Conservative Americans would be far more relaxed if a White Man were leading us down the Marxist Garden Path and telling us blatant lies at every step.
This meant to be sarcasm!
#14. burp, you don’t have it quite right. He’s a Mulatto, and, we don’t care. However, he’s a socialist and we do care about that.
Awesome article.
Ah, Maureen Dowd and her reverse bigotry; the best male is the discretionary male. I certainly haven’t seen Maureen and her ilk belly up to the equality of result standard and demonstrate for gender parity in casualty rates in the on going “war on terrorism.” It must be the soft bigotry of low expectations and feminist situational apathy regarding traditional gender roles when it’s to your advantage. You go girl.
Didn”t someone in his own party say during the primaries that he “Wasn’t black enough”? Who are the racists here?
Ruben:
You must live the foggy part of San Diego because you’re not seeing well.
Joe Wilson and the republicans win in this one because the truth no matter where it shows up hurts the president. “You lie” happens to be the truth. The republicans are helped because old Joe has accidently tripped across a live wire that will invigorate voters on the republican side. Americans want to hear the truth and not a bunch of BS coming from Washington. In fact most Americans are now starved for the truth and tired of the corruption in Washington that is epitomized by this Obama administration.
Nothing will help Obama and his lying cohorts now. Now they must pay for their lies.
Maybe that fog is coming from NPR. It might be a good for you to stay from there for a while and let the fog clear, just some friendly advice.
37. Libertyship46:
Demented guys like you don’t deserve an answer.
Hey Vivo, #51, Well, I consider that a great success. At least that’s one way to shut a fool like you up. Soros won’t be pleased, though. He expects jerks like you to keep making trouble. Guess you’ll lose your paycheck this week from MoveOn, huh?
WOW,it is so sad when the Jurassic media eat each other,
well…
not really.
…pass the popcorn,I love a good show.
Keep it up all you lefty journalistic whackos. You’ll go down in flames with Big O, if you aren’t already.
The problem with the “ideological issues” argument is found in that perverse “Birthers” undercurrent…What’s the point of “birthers”? To reject the “validity” of the election. To reject Obama as the rightful President of the United States. Here’s the only “long form” that matters: nearly seventy-million voters who supported Obama….Are the “birthers” a “fringe group”??..I would support that position if we have not seen MULTIPLE polls where > 25% of “Republicans” currently “doubt” his citizenship status?!…An open door to the “race” accusation eminates from the “birthers” who REJECT THE LEGITIMACY OF THE ELECTION RESULTS IN NOV 2008. I would be inclined to support the “race is not the issue” crowd, when I see the courage to dismiss that nonsense. Has pajamasmedia rejected the “birthers” for what they are — people who refuse to accept the results of the free and fair election of November 2008? If you don’t want to hear about “race”, the conservative media must police it’s own and dismiss the wingnuts for what they are —racists.
Right on que, Dowd raises her ugly head in an attempt to be relevant but fails miserably. Give it up and start planing for your new career..along with the rest of the NYT staffers. Maybe that Ramadan drummer needs an assistant or something. He probably doesn’t speak English so you guys would get along great.
45., until John Holdren gets the same bum’s rush that Van Jones got, I actually believe that there’s a grain of truth to that sarcasm of yours. Of course, Jones has a looser mouth than Holdren, but I can’t help but believe that there’s a little bit of racism that makes people less comfortable with a big-mouthed black communist than a nerdy-looking white eugenicist.
Lenin had one thing right: kill the czars. All of them.
In our so-called “post racial era” Maureen Dowd in Sunday’s New York Times predictably ascribed Congressman Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Obama speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress that “you lie” to racism:
“Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber. . . . Some people just can’t believe a lack man is president and will never accept it.”
But today we woke up to two news stories regarding blacks gone wild.
At the MTV Music Video Awards, in a bizarre scene where Taylor Swift (who is white) was giving an acceptance speech for her VMA Award, Kanye West (who is black) took the microphone from her hand, apparently because he apparently believed that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” deserved the award instead. Rolling Stone reported:
“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!,” Kanye shouted to a mortified Swift and the speechless audience. According to sources at the VMAs, Swift was seen hysterically crying backstage after Kanye’s outburst, making it convenient that her performance of ‘You Belong to Me,’ which immediately followed the acceptance speech, was prerecorded. Wale, who is serving as MC for the house band, told the crowd, ‘You can’t fault a man for speaking his mind,’ which was promptly met by boos from the Radio City Music Hall crowd.
It would be easy to ascribe unvarnished racism as the animating force behind West’s outburst. West later apologized for his behavior.
Also on Sunday, tennis great Serena Williams had some apologies to make of her own. As reported by Total Pro Sports:
Last night’s semifinals match between Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters was the epitome of craziness as the game ended in the most unusual fashion after Serena was penalized on match point, costing her the game, set, and match. After already receiving a code violation warning for breaking her racket after losing the first set, Williams was serving 5-6, 15-30 in the second. She faulted on her first serve and on her second attempt was called for a foot foul by the line judge. That cost her a crucial point at an important part of the game as Clijsters was now one point away from advancing to the finals. Serena responded to the call in a rather inaffable manner, making her way over to the line judge to shout and curse at her as she waved her racket and ball in disgust.
Dropping the f-word liberally, Williams said, “I swear to God I’m [expletive] going to take this [expletive] ball and shove it down your [expletive] throat, you hear that? I swear to God.”
Again, was race the motivating factor behind Williams’ tantrum? Maybe. She could have been angry, losing to Clijsters (who is white) or one could take notice that the tirade was launched against the line judge who is a diminutive Japanese woman.
And let’s not forget Van Jones, who among other things, called Republicans (as Ben Stein put it) a “barnyard epithet.” Something Jones later had to apologize for on his way out the White House door.
But in the end, what difference does it make whether West’s tactless behavior was motivated by racism. It was still awful. The only bright spot of the episode was Beyonce’s graciousness in later inviting Swift back up to the stage to finish her acceptance speech.
What difference does it make whether racism caused Williams’ meltdown? It was shameful nonetheless.
We should declare a moratorium, or even better retire the old “racism” trope. Bad behavior whether by Wilson, West, Williams (is it racism, poor temperament or because their last names begin with “W”?) is still crass, rude and beneath the dignity of all involved. Let’s not questions anyone’s motives any more and just call unacceptable behavior out when we see it. There’s really no good reason to try to score extra cheap political points by crying racism to condemn already appalling behavior.
Quoting the New York Times has become as relevant as quoting the Farmers Almanac. Both have about the same amount of followers.
It’s not that he’s black…it’s his stupidity,naiveté and his relentless pursuit of my money. Throw in the radicals that he has surronded himself with and the bold faced lies and it’s no wonder his numbers are crashing and burning. Plain folk, the backbone of this Nation, are disgusted with being looked down upon by obummer and his ilk. They are tired of working hard for a few crumbs these bums are willing to give them.
Here’s the deal. Nobody reads Dowd. Nobody but the soft-brains in the Blue Bubble of Washington/New York – which includes the irrelevant Marxist Media – which is why you hear about it if you tune into their echo chamber.
This conversation is about as useful or applicable to our daily political life as a diatribe about theoretical physics.
She doesn’t matter. She’s a fading diva in a tiny clique that is being daily revealed as more and more brainless, slavish, slobbering, absurd and out-of-touch.
Maureen Dowd is entirely irrelevant.
To the Oldguy –
The Farmer’s Almanac is MORE relevant and MORE right most of the time then Dowd could ever hope to be…
#59 oldguy:
“Quoting the New York Times has become as relevant as quoting the Farmers Almanac. Both have about the same amount of followers.”
Hey! I have reasons to TRUST the Farmer’s Almanac.
It has proven itself a handy reference in the past, and is usually full of interesting tidbits of verifiable and useful knowledge.
Unlike the NYT.
It’s weird to check in on websites like this and listen to people spew their bile. It’s a real sign of the impotence and lack of much of a head on your shoulders that most of you suffer from that you are unable to string together a single coherent response to Dowd’s charges. Calling her a hag makes you look like a three-year-old. Pretending that she and the Times are going down in flames indicates that you are seriously out of touch with reality. She has a far larger voice than you will ever have.
#64 John:
:It’s weird to check in on websites like this and listen to people spew their bile. It’s a real sign of the impotence and lack of much of a head on your shoulders that most of you suffer from that you are unable to string together a single coherent response to Dowd’s charges.”
Let me see if I’ve got this straight, ace.
Maureen Dowd writes something that she heard in her head that was not in what Congressman Wilson actually said.
She then goes on to write an entire rant about this word that she imagines Wilson said, but that he did not,in point of fact, say.
But we are somehow supposed to respond to the charges Dowd makes that are based on nothing more than literally the voices in her head and the other hobgoblins that bedevil her mind…
Have I got that right, chum?
The lack of coherence lies not with the folks at PJM, but with Maureen Dowd.
Her charges are beneath contempt, and answering them would only serve to validate her notions, (and from a layman’s POV, possibly reinforce her in her neuroses).
I’ve commented on Dowd before, she is the poster girl for the nutty left in America. Worse, she is a walking and talking example of why some people should be medicated for the good of the country.
Her single minded hatred of Palin is an example of the insanity rage and jealousy can bring down on a lonely, bitter, nasty, house falling on, witch.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/07/05/more-about-palin-and-dowd/
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/08/31/sarah-gets-a-thousand-requests-to-speak-dowds-head-explodes/
I get a kick out of watching her totally not get anything right. I can only imagine what her life must be like, or the lives of the people around her, including the poor sap who is in charge of cleaning up after the flying monkeys.
Just saying…
In the case of Maureen Dowd,liberal self-loathing has some merit.