Feeling Sorry for Maureen Dowd
I wonder whether the New York Times provides psychiatric coverage for its employees. I wonder this because it seems clear that poor Maureen Dowd has finally lost it. I say “finally,” but I should acknowledge that I am not a regular reader of her column. I long ago concluded that Dowd was one of those writers whose hectoring hysteria was bad for my digestion. You open the paper to the page where her column appears and it seems as if someone is screaming at you. The fact that she appears to think she is being cute adds a slightly macabre and pathetic element to the effect, as if an aging Miss Havisham decided to go into business as an editorialist.
As regular readers of “Roger’s Rules” know, about the only time I encounter the Times in all its physical wood-pulp glory is when visiting friends in Northwest Connecticut. That may soon come to end, too, since they have given up on the weekday edition in exasperation. They still get the Sunday paper, though, and while visiting yesterday I was presented with the Sunday Review section, which contained Dowd’s column. “Have you seen this?” my friend asked in tones of wonder, pointing to “Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball,” Dowd’s report on the Republican National Convention that convened in Tampa, Florida, last week.
The column is so weird, and so at odds with reality, that innocent readers, unacquainted with the rhetorical eructations of Maureen Dowd, might wonder if she had been drinking or smoking something contraband while composing it. The combination of snarling bitterness and juvenile name-calling certainly suggests a mind distracted from itself. The convention, she said, was “a colossal hoax.” Paul Ryan’s speech was “a shimmering mirage, a beckoning pool of big, juicy lies.” Mitt Romney was “a native alien” who is “unlike the vast majority of Americans in every respect.”
Now, accusing Paul Ryan of “lying” has become a meme of the moment. Anyone interested in teasing out the truth — that is to say, the utter lack of truth — behind the charges might want to ponder “Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers,” a summary of the tendentious misrepresentations circulating about Ryan’s speech and legislative record. For her part, Maureen Dowd doesn’t actually name any “big, juicy lies,” contenting herself instead with the assertion that that “Ryan’s lies and Romney’s shape-shifting are so easy to refute,” that the wily Republicans resorted to “mythmaking” and “artifice” in order to conceal “their authentic ruthless worldview.” (“Ryan’s harsh stances toward women, the old and the poor,” she said darkly, but without elaboration, “are on record.”)
What can one say? Does anyone outside the orbit of The New York Times actually believe Dowd’s repulsive caricatures? Republicans, according to Dowd, are “harsh” and heartless, greedy and grasping. They don’t like women, the poor, blacks, Hispanics, the elderly, or “the environment.” At the convention she saw people in “cowboy hats and cheeseheads,” “economically wounded capitalists in shades from eggshell to ecru,” and “blindingly white older male delegates.” She somehow missed the many blacks, women, Asians, Hispanics, etc. who filled the conventional hall and spoke from the podium. Well, she didn’t miss them, exactly, it’s just that her twisted perspective requires that she regard them as part of that “colossal hoax” and “masquerade” Republicans supposedly are perpetrating on an unwary country.
Dowd’s problem — it’s Obama’s problem, too — is that reality tells a very different story. Leftists are all about promoting big government solutions to social problems. Unfortunately for Leftists, big-governments policies are usually disastrous. They tend to have an effect more or less opposite to what they were designed to accomplish. Welfare, for example, has not alleviated poverty, it has institutionalized it. (It has also institutionalized the bureaucratic apparatus which administers the welfare, which gives politicians a vested interest in its perpetuation.) Obama’s spread-the-wealth-around economic policies have also been disastrous. Median household income has dropped nearly 5 percent since he took office. The federal debt has exploded by more than 50 percent, to $16 trillion. Unemployment, which Obama predicted would by at 5.6 percent by now, is 8.3 percent: that’s 23 million people out of work. And on and on.
The truth is that Democrats are great at the rhetoric of compassion, but their policies produce bureaucratic entanglement and economic immiseration. To hear Maureen Dowd tell it, Mitt Romney is heartless plutocrat. Yet he contributed some 16 percent of his not-inconsiderable income to charity (Obama gave 1 percent of his) and the convention was full of accounts of his personal generosity and kindness. The effort to demonize Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan must confront one insuperable obstacle. Both are kind, generous, loving men who have devoted themselves to their families and their communities. According to Maureen Down, “even when [Mitt Romney] looks genuine, he still seems false.” Except that he doesn’t. What he seems like is a straight-shooting business man, not a utopian who thinks that because he has promised something he has therefore performed it. The Democrats have spent a lot of time and money attempting to tarnish the reputation Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney founded. The trouble is, the record shows that Bain has been a tremendous force for good. It helped many worthy companies, from Staples to Bright Horizons to Steel Dynamics, one of the most successful steel companies in America.
Maureen Dowd pretends that the Republican platform is “harsh” because it favors individual and local initiatives over the centralizing “solutions” of big government. She never pauses to ask which approach actually helps people more. For her, the pretense of benevolence trumps the reality.
“blindingly white”? Let’s just say that no one will ever mistake Maureen Dowd for Condi Rice.
Seems as if the worst thing the left thinks it can call people is; white. Whiteness is the big sin. Whiteness is the sign of evil according to Dowd and most Progressives. They absolve themselves of their own lily whiteness by displaying proudly their hatred for their own race, therefore erasing the burden and curse of “whiteness” and thus allowing them to grovel at the feet of minorities, stating: yowsa massa, I’s a good house honkey, I’s yo boy massa! Really now, if Dowd could just find a man that could stand her for 30 seconds, she would experience some physical relief. Progressive Beta’s are all she attracts and her hamster is just spinning in circles. It’s kinda fun though watching her decent into crazyass spinsterhood. Kinda like the Norma Desmond of Manhattan.
Everything bad and/or evil in the World, is due to the actions of White Men!
Gee, I wonder who it was that hired MoDo at the Times?
Was it a “White Man”?
See, told you White Men cause bad things to happen.
Isn’t it about time someone wrote a book entitled; “Uncle Chips Mansion”?
Note that the left is feverishly trying to re-classify Asians as white, mainly so that the narrative of ‘colored people are oppressed’ can continue.
You can’t let that profitably industry die, can you. Blacks might figure out the truth, which might make them not vote Democrat.
Solution : Re-classify Asians as ‘white’ in order to hide their success within official data.
The Left did the same thing with the Jews a long time ago.
The German Nazis, of course, had insisted that Jews weren’t part of the Aryan “white” race. So along comes the Left to insist that Jews really are white, and are oppressing the Palestinian “people of color.”
Either way, the Jews just can’t seem to catch a break.
Oh, brother, how true. In the 19th century, when US law and custom protected the rights of religious communities (not counting the Mormons, but that’s another chapter), Jews were classified as a “race.” Once the prime mission of government became protecting the rights of “racial minorities,” Jews were classified as a religious community.
Muslims, apparently, get to be both.
A variation on that theme: for many years Jews were blamed by rich bankers as being communist organizers while Jewish bankers were blamed by communist organizers with being the oppresive capitalists. Jews were demonized coming and going.
Even Hispanics are white…when it suits the narrative. Just ask George Zimmerman.
Maureen Dowd’s likely guiding light and inspiration, the Susan Sontag of Manhattan, who declared:
“The white race is the cancer of human history.”
I reality, the inventive engine of human history.
In reality, “the inventive engine of human history”.
Truer words were never spoken, Feral. The accidental double post is pure serendipity.
De Souza’s masterful “2016: Obama’s America” is a stunning apologia for this utter swill. We owe him a lot. In the film he mentions not being a citizen. Perhaps he’s changed that status by now. I hope he has, and that he never leaves us. The figures on the popularity of the film are encouraging. I was actually shocked that it’s being shown here. To read the local paper, one would think there were no conservatives within 100 miles.
Here’s a corrected version of what I was trying to say below but butchered with too many edits:
De Souza’s masterful “2016: Obama’s America” is at once a stunning apologia for the towering contributions of whites to civilization and a brilliant refutation of this utter swill.
If Michael Douglas dumped you, you’d be a bitter hag too. For Catherine Zeta-Jones no less. She’s not even an American. She’s an actress. It’s not fair. MoDo went to an Ivy League school. She writes all the right things.
You people lack empathy.
Michael Douglas DUMPED . . . that implies that he . . . EEEEEUUUUWWWW!
Maybe it only implies that he…..EEEUUUW. He seems to have more brains than that.
I am empathetic. I light a candle each day for the hag.
She ought to humble herself and go to Walmart and buy some batteries for her spinster’s little friend in the bedside drawer. Maybe she could reduce her shrillness a tad.
Good point, nadad. White skin = 666 to these Demunists, except for their own. Their support of big and bigger government charities with other people’s money gives them in their simple minds redemption, a pass for any idiocy.
Romney will need a Republican Congress to do what he proposes. Let’s not forget that.
Ian’t it a bit delicious that Obama’s cronyistic use of the executive order power to issue ACA waivers could now be the very wrecking ball used to knock it down?
Agreed, congress and the senate is just as important as the prez race. Things look very good for the house races, the repubs should easily hold their majority there. But the senate is very close, especially after Akins boneheaded abortion comment blew an almost sure pickup chance in MO. The odds still look good to get 50-51 seats, but it will be close. If romney wins, then 50 seats, with ryan breaking ties as vp, will be just enough.
Note date of this comment at PJM:
“Fred Beloit
“When someone or something starts the Civil War, I’m signing up. With the intent to win.”
Don’t think we have to take that big step yet. Just off the top of my head, what does Obama or one of his czars or committees do ever single day? Give up? Why they grant waivers from the provisions of the Affordable Care Tax Act to groups of their choice. Thousands of waivers, and no one objects to this inequality under the law. Not a peep.
Romney should campaign with the promise that he will continue this practice. On day one he could grant a waiver to all Americans who don’t yet have a waiver. If Romney is elected, problem solved.
July 2, 2012 – 7:09 am Link to this Comment
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
“Both the number of unemployed persons (12.8 million) and the unemployment rate (8.3 percent) were essentially unchanged in July.”
You can probably get to 23 million if you include the underemployed and people who have left the work force since Obama’s inauguration, but you can’t correctly say “Unemployment, which Obama predicted would by at 5.6 percent by now, is 8.3 percent: that’s 23 million people out of work.”
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
You’re a dope.
That’s how many fewer people have jobs, dolt.
The “Unemployment Rate” has become a finely tuned propaganda number that in no way represents reality. If you listen to government statistics, I have a bridge to sell you.
On the other hand, you’re just a pathetic troll.
Begone!
hey, the guy just made an argument. No need to jump to names. Just shoot it down if it is wrong.
1) I know the reality, that that number includes those who have left the work force. But the way the sentence was worded, it clearly implied that 8.3% unemployment and 23 million reflected the same people. Such sloppy use of language can only empower your opponents on the left to say, “look, another lie, like all the Ryan lies.”
2) I post under my own name and demonstrably stand next to no one in my 30+ years of contempt for socialism, statism, crony capitalism and Keynesianism. I was reading and rejecting Marx when I was 12 years old. Don’t be the fool who assumes everyone who makes a point you don’t like makes him either an ideological opponent or a troll.
Well put, Mr. Pittelli. There is no place for insults no matter how cleverly phrased when we are talking about the future of our country. We need reasoned dialogue. I am a conservative, and constantly hope that my posts will convince those teetering on the edge, not those on the left, as the latter are unreachable. Insults will not convince anyone.
The government only counts as unemployed people who are currently drawing unemployment checks. If you’re unemployed longer than your benefits last, you’re no longer considered “unemployed,” even if you want a job and continue to look for work.
This is the dirty little secret of the statistics.
The fact is: we have a much smaller workforce after four years of Obama’s policies. Fewer jobs, fewer people drawing a paycheck every week.
We have more people on Welfare (which rarely gets mentioned in the press) than we’ve ever had since Welfare was created. We also have far more on Food Stamps than we’ve had since that program was created.
Clearly, Obama’s policies have failed spectacularly…
No, the unemployment rate only counts those who claim that they are actively looking for work. This includes everyone collecting unemployment insurance (since they have to claim to be looking for work in order to receive it), but it also includes those who are no longer collecting unemployment, if they are still looking for work. It even includes those who were never eligible for unemployment, say because they just got out of school and never got a first job, or because they were fired for cause, among other reasons, provided that they claim they are looking for work. It does not include discouraged workers (those who have given up on finding a job) and it does not include part-timers who would prefer full-time work. There are narrower and broader measures of unemployment, labeled U-1 through U-6, with U-6 being the broadest measure. The headline number, which we are discussing, is U-3. If you want to school yourself instead of perhaps embarrassing yourself at the next Oxford Union debate, read http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
The 8.3% unemployed (12.8 million) figure is usually qualified by saying the ‘real unemployment rate is higher since the total number of persons unemployed or underemployed is 23 million.
In addition to the 12.8 million, there are also:
8.2 million ‘employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as
involuntary part-time workers)’.
2.5 million persons who were marginally attached to the labor force. ‘They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey’.
[Both of these numbers were from your linked summary.]
Added together, that’s 23.5 million, so the ‘real’ unemployed/underemployed number is higher than 8.3% (maybe 15.2%); and that 23.5 million doesn’t even count people who have given up seeking employment in previous months and have decided to live on their spouse’s income, parent’s income, or have elected early retirement.
Well done Astro! A Gold Star for you! Sorry Mr. Pittelli, you score an “F”. But don’t give up. Just remember not to mess with PJM commenters. We don’t grade on the curve here.
Yooper,
Perhaps you should read more carefully or bone up on the English language before promiscuously handing out ‘F’s. I leave it to everyone else with an IQ over 120 to determine for themselves who knows what he is talking about and who deserves an ‘F’ for Foolishness.
Yes, all correct. The U-6 rate is now 15.0%.
How do you get a job to answer blogs? I would love to sit in my living room with my computer and make money like you are doing. We are in an economic depression secondary to the big O. He has done nothing to adjust the economy. We are suffering due to Obamacare and his tyrannical policies of over-regulation and rules.
for me, I could tell that she lost it with her ‘back-to-back’ ryan piece’s which were like watching a liberal with doctor give a sermon on the ‘white devil’.
she reached a level of obsession which can only be rivalled by her ‘michael douglas dumping’ phase.
when thomas friedman hooks up with you, you have hit rock bottom.
I just accept her as the blob that fills the void left by helen thomas.
They destroyed Sarah Palin by thundering that she was stupid. Back-to-back, obsessively, madly.
But they can’t call Ryan stupid. Or corrupt, or vice-ridden, or fat-old-and-white. So . . . “liar” it is, with the dial turned to 11.
I would subtitle the BO video as “Same you can believe in!”
Nobody reads Dowd or the Times because the left has run out of ideas. Daniel Tosh, host of the top rated Comedy Central show (that nobody over 40 has likely ever heard of), is still doing Sarah Palin jokes, fer chrissakes.
I don’t mind the opposition being disagreeable, that’s what makes politics entertaining. I just don’t want them to be boring.
To your point, FX has a new show with some dude I’ve never heard of but the joke they show to promote it is him calling Pat Buchanan a racist! Is he even alive anymore? Pathetic.
I am in my 40s and I watch Tosh.0, at least from time to time.
It is my only possible claim to hipness.
My sons, all in their 20s, don’t watch Comedy Central because they find it off putting that 50-year-old Jon Stewart tries to act like he’s 25.
Jim, good comments, but stow the blasphemy.
Dowd’s problem — it’s Obama’s problem, too — is that reality tells a very different story. Leftists are all about promoting big government solutions to social problems. Unfortunately for Leftists, big-governments policies are usually disastrous. They tend to have an effect more or less opposite to what they were designed to accomplish. Welfare, for example, has not alleviated poverty, it has institutionalized it. (It has also institutionalized the bureaucratic apparatus which administers the welfare, which gives politicians a vested interest in its perpetuation.)
And we’re done here. Their way does not work. Ever.
Let’s move on, shall we?
Ms Dowd calling Ryan (and pretty much any conservative under the sun) a liar, yet providing no evidence, reminds me of the video I saw where Breitbart confronted a bunch of liberal intellectuals holding signs calling Glenn Beck a liar. Breitbart asked them to name one lie; they were completely perplexed. In fact, one idiot claimed “I’m not going to fall into your trap!” Ah yes, that devilishly cunning trap where you’re asked to give an example of a lie when you call someone a liar.
They are very sad, little pathetic people with serious mental problems. Good thing they only represent 40-some percent of voters!! Lord help us.
Oreilly guy Jesse watters has been doing this to people too. It is pretty funny. “Fox news lies “oh can you tell me something we have lied about? My favorite guy answered “there are so many” well pick one. I”I don’t have all day ” not asking for all day, just one, one example to prove how we lie. “I don’t have time “while scurrying away like a rat
Should he be elected, Mitt Romney should revoke all current Obmacare waivers while he issues waivers to everyone else. Let the unions like SEIU that depended on them after lobbying for Obamacare and the rent-seeking corporations like McDonalds suffer for their perfidy.
Comment of the day: Ba-FREAKING-zinga!
Love the idea but it probably won’t work due to the way the system is structured. If there is no state exchange no one will be able to go to the obamacare system. If everyone but the unions are exempt; the exchanges won’t be put together. Might be fun to do as a preemptive strike though. re: your not exempt so if obamacare does go forward your going to be included in it.
unexempt congress.
This would solve so many problems so fast.
Dowd’s wailing is the dying cry of a washed-up, dried-up old party girl when her attributes have sagged into her wrinkles and she no longer appeals to anyone, but cannot stand the lack of attention. So she becomes ever more shrill and strident – as if the sheer screeching volume will substitute for the sassy snark she once spouted.
I read every word from her. Her value is placed exalted in my mind and heart . Slaves coming out of Egypt saw the great value of Red -head Rahab but elite secular erudite point to China as the role model after the people reject them
her guardian angel help me discover the 8th heaven to add to the 7 and now I know the location of the 9th whereas i get feeling too many stay at level of what i call poop on a stick
But that is not my problem
Forgive me, but what in the name of Elvis dead on the can in Graceland are you going on about?
Really, incoherent much?
The day has finally arrive when I can soon enter the 9th heaven with all the great treasure waiting for me there as the walls of Jericho come doubling down with a Loud Shout and a loud call to all my army of angels to arise and enter New York City and cut off all the heads of the demons and watch them run into the sea from whence they came as my eyes have now seen the next governor of Texas Julian Castro fella so from the south the Ron Paul demons will be cast out to the land of the Rand Paul demons and of course we must save Israel from Iran
Maureen Dowd the Great Rahab has been big tool making this all possible for me to see the impossible done, The Will of The True God be done in USA.
Erudite big boys and big girls have no idea what goes on in the invisible I see. As Jesus say: God is a Spirit and those worshiping God worship in Spirit and in Truth
and when they put Jesus to death on the cross they believe that was the end of that story when it was only the begininng
AMEN AMEN AMEN
“what in the name of Elvis dead on the can in Graceland”
I have never heard that expression before; I sure hope there are no other life forms in this universe that use such a tasteless and utterly moronic phrase.
‘Twas brillig and the slithey tove…
Whats next ? Twas brillig ? Sounds like some poor soul afflicted with schiziphrenia, characterized by extreme flight of ideas. Does this new Obamacare welcome the demented with open arms or are they fated to remain with the OWS crowd, Next stop Echolalia get off the train and stretch your legs James, so the rest of us can leave the Twilight Zone.
Sorry, taliesin319. Did you not recognize the first line from “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, 1872? This was a double-down comment (after werewife) emphasizing how bizarre the writing was of waxwing01. What the hell was that? But I guess not everyone was forced in high school to read old classical literature. Sorry for confusing you. But you really should look up the poem to understand why the analogy fits.
Maureen Dowd is a head case from way back.SHE HAS A DADDY COMPLEX(HER FATHER WAS A POLICE OFFICER).Clearly she did not recieve all the spankings she so desperately deserved.
If this is just a matter of spanking Maureen Dowd – well, I’d do it for the cause. But I wouldn’t enjoy it much.
It’s always depressing to read this kind of thing in the Right-leaning press. Look, it doesn’t matter who or how some program “helps”. It doesn’t matter who or how it “hurts” to see these programs end. They are Unconstitutional. They are a fraud, they are a lie. They are piracy, theft, conversion… whatever you want to call it. SS, Medicare, the various welfare programs…. it is all crap. It is all socialism. It is all illegal and it all must stop. No, Rmoney does NOT aspire to do anything like that, neither does Ryan. It all amounts to can-kicking and the more Republicans associate themselves with that the worse it will bite when, possibly on Willard’s shift, it all explodes.
It’s a start, though. Need to prove that it can be done. Government CAN be pulled back. Once something is done once it’ll be easier to do a second time. After a bit it’s not only easy to claw back big GOvernment but it’ll also be expected.
Agreed. See Wisconsin/Walker 2011-2012
“blindingly white”
It must be difficult to write a column while looking in a mirror.
…unfulfilled to unfilled.
I’ve sent poor Mo a burnt cork c/o The New York Times. A vigorous application of the same won’t improve the quality of her columns but should make her feel better when she looks in the mirror in the morning. The woman needs help.
“… not a utopian who thinks that because he has promised something he has therefore performed it. ”
That in a nutshell sums up Democrat governance; they think having a meeting about a problem is the solution to the problem. They talk, they task force, they retreat, they sympose; they do anything but actually do something.
Yeah that crap has become SOP in the corporate workplace since affirmative action metastasized into the management structure. Critical thinking has been redefined as criticism and every new idea that springs from the mouths of babes must be tried regardless of whether it was tried and failed back when the old white guys ran the place.
23 million is the U-6 unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a far more accurate measurement of the true situation than the typically quoted U-3 rate of 8.3%.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
The U-6 rate is the total unemployed to include all persons marginally attached to the labor force plus total employed part time for economic reasons.
Maureen Down is the “Times’s” Parody Pretzel. With the steering wheel stuck hard left, she screws her scrawny neck of hate around so tightly that by the time she reaches her last peep the gasket has come loose. We laugh to see Dowd’s headless chicken wandering off, unaware that its brain is oozing down its chin.
Of course Dowd is angry, and thereby irrational, when she writes about real men with real plans to solve real problems. She has been “history challenged” all her career, as are most liberal commenters. Her, and their, mantra is “yes, it was tried, but the others didn’t get it right. We’ll do it better.”
She, and they, are still caught up in the published pervarications of Duranty, Mailer, et al, when she should have read “The Gulag Archipelago” and “We, the Living” as true documentations.
What she should be reading, with mirror in hand, is “The Politics of Change” by Eric Hoffer for an idea of how near the paradigm shift upon which we balance is. We, as a country, are walking an unnecessary razor edge, designed by an ignorant press, and promoted by business interests that went global in efforts to eliminate competition.
I blame us conservatives for sitting it out for too long and for being as naive as to believe these people, like Dowd, had the best interests of the united States at heart.
Maureen Dowd lost it a long ago when Michael Douglas dumped her. Since then she’s been a haranguing old maid. I don’t think she likes handsome white males. She’s on her way to becoming the next Helen Thomas.
“pretense of benevolence trumps the reality”
Love that phrase.
Maureen, as do Obama and the Democrats, outsources her compassion to the taxpayer. I guess it’s too difficult to get her hands dirty. Romney puts them all to shame.
I reckon Maureen Dowd is trying, through her op-ed columns, to collectively punish the rest of us for her inability to get a date.
Hell hath no fury like a harpy scorned.
Remember, too, that this is the poor dear who knows that she heard Joe Wilson yell “You lie, boy.” That was three years ago, and her condition hasn’t improved. I suspect that she has a progressive disease.
Someone better tell the Democrats and their media cheerleaders that name-calling and gainsaying are not ideas. They are the last bastions of a child’s argument.
On unemployment numbers, I like this:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
Not sure why you are feeling sorry for MD: I am sure she is laughing at the fact that she at least managed to get in the parenthetical about what was at the time she was writing a curious story about a marathon Ryan ran. As is now obvious, that curious story has ‘legs’; it not only vindicates MD but places Ryan one more ‘gotcha’ away from an Eagleton like exit from the vice presidential race.
He ran one marathon twenty years ago and was confused over 3 minutes/4 minutes. Stuart, I’m sure you never misspeak, but most of us do.
And I’m sure you can speak perfect Austrian and have visited all 57 states.
Yes, but is he a corpseman?
Poor Maureen. Post menopausal, dried up and spent. She could have had a more fulfilling life, but opted to the bitch/witch persona of the Left. All of the red hair dye in the universe will not hide the obvious; you blew it, Maureen, and now are imbittered, unloved and alone. QED.
I have an in-law like MoDo, so insufferable that she’s down to about herself as anyone who can talk to her for longer than 5 minutes. Sad
“Blindingly white” apparently is the new insult adopted by such people of color as Mo Dowd, Ed Schulz, Lawrence O’Donnel, and Chris Matthews.
take a good look in the mirror sometime.
Anyway, the one who started this white stuff was lefty NYC intellectual bullshit artist Susan Sontag —
“The white race is the cancer of human history.”
Thanks to the following quote from California Democratic Party Chair John Burton today, this meme’s about to die away.
“They lie and they don’t care if people think they lie… Joseph Goebbels – it’s the big lie, you keep repeating it,” Burton said Monday before the Blake Hotel breakfast. He said Ryan told “a bold-faced lie and he doesn’t care that it was a lie. That was Goebbels, the big lie.”
Not a winning strategy. Now, Burton’s pulled the negative focus from Ryan and onto himself. Even apologizing won’t return it to Ryan. In effect, Burton has neutralized any effect of calling out the big lie, were there any, by going so over the top with a Nazi reference. The best advice for the Dems now: Move on.
Old geezers like me can remember Russel Baker. For many of us, he was the main reason to pick up the Sunday Times. A sign of the times is that this funny, gentle man was replaced by Mo Dowd, queen of the harpies. The Times has sold out to strident liberalism, like David dancing in front of the Ark. But when you’re way out front like that, watch out; you’re liable to have a great fall.
Don’t worry, Big Lonely Mo will go home tonight as she always does, alone, pour herself an extra-large Merlot into a 7-11 Big Gulp cup, wake up and see her teeth matching the color of her dyed hair, a shade of Eastern European Red. What man could ever be with her, her twa&tt is lined with razorblades.
After Romney’s inauguration I expect to see a news clip wherein Maureen Dowd has chained herself to the White House fence and she’s screaming that Romney is using alien mind control on her.
Nothing is more important to the likes of DoDo … I’m sorry, MoDo … than claiming the mantle of compassion for herself.
That the people and policies she champions do NOTHING to actually make things better for their victims and our society is beside the point – - – MoDo stroking her own ego by demonstrating again how much she “cares” is all that matters.
So simple, but so true.
Old “Dowdy” needs to be sat down by her brothers for a good talk. I am sorry she hasn’t been able to find a good man to take care of her, but her writing suggests that she is way beyond that now. Beyond Hannibal Lechter,even. I don’t see any male out there that could retain equilibrium around her. What a sad a bitter woman. Maybe she should move to Jamaica or something and live on the beach, topless for awhile. Absorb some rays, drink a Mojito or two. Brought to her by a cabana boy.
Maureen Dowd has but one remaining function for society :
Be a ‘cougar’ that novice pickup artists can use for practice, before gaining the skills necessary to bed younger, attractive women (and thus dumping Dowd).
She can be a pickup artist test subject. Nothing more.
Note that when leftists use the word ‘lie’…. they merely are rejecting someone who is blasphemously rejecting their memorized doctrine.
e.g…. “Bush ‘lied’ about WMDs..”
or….. If you deny global warming, you are ‘lying’..
They use ‘lie’ much in the same way that radical Muslims would dehumanize infidels. To reject dogma is to ‘lie’…. the word has an entirely different meaning than it has to a non-fanatic.
This is also why they are untroubled by actual lies from leftists…..
You’re not counting properly if you don’t look at the big picture when it comes to Obama’s 1% charitable giving.
When a public servant of his stature and intellect dains to reveal his (apparently) infinite wisdom and direction – all for our benefit – why, that is of immeasurably more value as a contribution than is Mitt’s paltry 16%.
Roger – Just two comments on what you wrote:
1) You wrote: “As regular readers of “Roger’s Rules” know, about the only time I encounter the Times in all its physical wood-pulp glory is when visiting friends in Northwest Connecticut.” Question: Don’t you know that the Times no longer reports the news, only all the news it can skew to fit its view? (Afer all, the NYT is the head honcho at The Ministry of Propaganda and Lies.) My recommendation: Skip the Times. PMJ and Breitbart and Commentary Contentions provide a far more truthful perspective on the news than does the NYT.
2) You also wrote: “The column is so weird, and so at odds with reality … ” Well it’s not at all at odds with Dowd’s version of reality. As a Leftist, she has the right to make her own reality, irrespective of its relationship to empirical reality. (That’s why being a Leftist is a form of mental illness, as exemplified by Dowd.)
Here’s an example of how Leftists create their own reality: DWS claimed she had a conversation with Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, in which he said that the GOP is dangerous for Israel. Here is the empirical reality refuting DWS’s claim: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/israeli-ambassador-rebukes-dnc-chair_651629.html
Poor MoDo. Once the bright shiny penny of journalism and the darling of many an editor, she now sounds like a bitter, angry and, well – white woman who still fancies herself as the hottest thing behind a keyboard. Oh there were plenty of suitors over the years I imagine. But her snarkiness,smug superiority and that tart tongue are not endearing features. Being sexy and glamorous, if only in your own eyes, does not serve a woman well past 50. Compassion, kindness, an ability to not take oneself too seriously and a great sense of the silly would serve her well. But I don’t think she would be interested.
From “The Viking Book of Ahorisms, A Personal Selection” by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenbertger, (c) 1962, 1966:, page 218:
“If one wishes to know the real power of the press, one should pay attention, not to what it says, but to the way in which it is liestened to. There are times when its very heat is a symptom of weakness and prophesies its end. Its clamors and its fears often speak in the same voice. I only cries so loud because its audience is becoming deaf.”
-Tocqueville
Me thinks MoDo has a bad case of the hots for Ryan. And she is reacting in the typical middle-school girlish way. “Look at me.Look at me.I’m so smart, and clever,and pretty.”
Dowd has not been the same since 1998 after Monica got to give Clinton a Lewinski and she did not get to do so herself. Everything written by her since then reflects that perceived injustice.
Maureen must have been so happy at the RNC, walking around knowing she’s so much better than the thousands of people around her.
Ms. Dowd, try as she may, is not the intellectual she pretends to be.
Anyway, she makes me recall Bob Dylan’s lyrics:
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the backroads headin’ south
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
Can I please use that line myself? Brilliant.
The president can not order anyone out side of the executive branch to do anything. We are not under a president’s orders. We must let him know that.
Several observations:
1) Do this: simply substitute every word “Republican”, “Conservative”, “Romney”, and “Ryan” with “Democrat”, “Leftist”, “Obama”, and “Biden.” It’s astounding and eerily accurate. Projection is an amazing thing to behold.
2) Her article was probably 95% pre-written last year or earlier
3) When will honest people finally start seriously boycotting an obvious propagandist organ like the NYT. Calling it a “newspaper” and the propagandists there “journalists” is part of the propaganda itself. Boycott these rags one by one until they die a needful and overdue death.
Maureen Dowd is an example of that curious phenomenon, the star columnist whose hectoring, lowbrow drivel the liberal press continues to publish because it can’t conceive that there is any other kind of opinion worth publishing. Anthony Daniels? Mark Steyn? Scurrilous conservative types, the Times would respond, as it slid gracefully towards insolvency.
Remember when David Letterman likened Sarah Palin’s appearance to that of a “slutty fight attendant”? What he got from the left was appreciative chuckles. How clever! How witty! Now imagine he had said it of Maureen Dowd’s appearance, as he might (equally inappropriately) have done. The anger, the rage, the moralizing, the sermonizing of the left would have known no bounds, and his career would probably not have recovered.
We no longer have a political dichotomy with the opposing sides hashing out a way through the political morass. We have a Left attempting to enslave everyone not of the approved elite and an emasculated leadership on the Right who don’t even realize what is happening.
We fought a war and slaughtered 600,000 of our people over the enslavement of a race not intrinsically of this land and unlike the general population in nearly every way. How long shall we allow ourselves, and our children to be turned into serfs by these horrible totalitarian statists?
They won’t stop as long as they have breath. They are a lot like the islamists in this regard. Their ‘god’ has ordained them to power and they will take it any way necessary.
“… a race not intrinsically of this land and unlike the general population in nearly every way.”
Albeit many of them embrace a rather decadent culture that honors gangsterism & just about all the trimmings & trappings of unabashed sleaze, there is a percentage among their ranks who have adopted mainstream American values & are fully assimilated into the majority population here.
Getting information about Republicans at the Daily Duranty is like getting a back massage from Edward Scissorhands.
Getting economic advice from Paul Krugman, The Merchant of Venom, or geopolitical advice from Tom Friedman, Mao-sure for Mao-sure, and/or getting insights into the non-leftist mind from Maureen Dowd…the Framing by the Shrew …is to load one’s mind from the pickings of a garbage scow.
The problem with radical leftism is that it governs by whim and fiat that must get more whimsical and fact-repelled with each passing moment. If the world of facts and reality interfere with life inside the Bohemian Bubble then the truth must be obliterated.
Despising the free market and desperately wanting to turn the tables on “the soft liberties” of religion, gun ownership and private property ownership and inheritance is the hallmark of the crony communism. Small c communism, to be sure…it hides behind the pastel colors of “compassion”. The dead and decaying bodies in the adored regimes brutalized for opposing repression are hidden from view, but the stench remains.
Maureen Dowd is simply the female Duranty. She believes in the overthrow. In small c communism, there is no central planning, there is only central plotting. Treason with wrinkles is doubly unattractive.
Even with Obama in the Whitehouse the corporate greed machine runs at full throttle. The greedy billionaire Koch brothers inevented the Tea Party and bribed the Supreme Court to crush even the modest, compassionate initiatives of the Obama Administration. (Obamacare, Citizens United)
Maureen Dowd looks like she’s telling the simple and obvious truth. The point men for the greedy pigs on the top want to condemn the poor and elderly to slow, painfuls deaths of exposure and starvation so they can hog even more wealth for themselves. Even the corporate-owned New York Times no longer denies the obvious!
Hilarious. Drink more purple kool-aid and tell me again how the black community has improved since 1964 after the Civil Rights movement accelerated; of course, the white liberals in government unions charged with providing them services has done very well, thank you. Democrats don’t help the poor, they keep them poor. Look up fostered dependency and then tell me how much things have improved in the inner-cities. If you want perspective on this, read this article on the 10 poorest cities in America, all run by Democrats for 50 years or more: http://www.scragged.com/articles/democrat-disaster-cities.
You don’t understand that your policies actually breed crime and poverty. You just don’t get it.
Ah, yes. But after Suzy Creemcheeze developed breast cancer, she cancelled her fatuous remark and wrote an entire screed, Illness as Metaphor, denouncing anyone who dared to use cancer as a metaphor. Nemesis, like karma, can be a real bitch, eh, sweetie? She only escaped Hell by preaching to a scandalized congregation of the Devout Left that they would have known much more about the state of foreign policy in the previous ten years had they been reading only the Reader’s Digest rather than The Nation.
Isn’t an eructation what a cow does when it chews the cud? It may sound like a good term to use for Dowd’s writing, but cows only chew the cud when they are relaxed, usually lying down. I doubt that Dowd is anything like that when writing her screeds. Actually, I think it rather insulting to cows, come to think of it. So just stop it, will you?
Please, let’s show some compassion for an aging spinster.
Denial ain’t just a river in Africa but a nice place to live that beats reality for left/liberals.
She is insane. She always has been. It’s a prerequisite to being a socialist,communist,marxist, liberal democratic douche.
And I don’t feel a bit sorry for any of them. They should be hospitalized for the safety of society.
I refuse to read Maureen Dowd …. and why are we “blogging” about her? She is Noonanesque…. vague, vacuous and vapid …. Nasty piece of work, MODO …. Due disclosure, I hold a grudge against PN, her vilification of Sarah Palin and her endorsement of prezboy back in 2008 …. …
Just really sad when people who pretend compassion say such cruel and malicious things. You know if she wrote as a conservative all these things she would be boycotted immediately and lose all of her advertisers. This won’t happen and it is our loss that such things don’t happen.
What’s so bad about being white? America is made up of a pretty strong majority of white people. You’d expect that a party which represents America would consist of a majority of white people. It’d be odd and artificial if that was not the case.
I’ve long said that some stalwart male needs to take one for the team and get this woman laid.
Great ad. Eerie, isn’t it. Reminds me a little of Nixon who ran in ’68 saying “I have a plan” for the honorable end to the Vietnam war (he would pat his breast pocket as though it contained “the plan” all written up and ready to go). Four years later he ran saying “I have a plan” for the honorable end to the Vietnam war. Of course, he went on to win in a landslide.
Dowd writes for this very thing. Attention. Doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative. If it gets people talking, it’s considered a success. And now I have participated in the charade.
Ryans lies are well documented and they helped make the RNC a bust.
Great piece. But you missed one key tidbit — Dowd’s line about “wrenching testimonials from Mormons” — an amazingly bigoted statement. Playing the Mormon card in a big way. I’m surprised she hasn’t been called on it yet.
Dowd is a semi-intellectual who, if she wasn’t as smart as she is would be writing for one of those low level gossip rags you see at the checkout counter called tabloids……………oh, wait!
At least the Inquirer covered John Edwards.
My husband is 60 and has been either unemployed or under employed for at least 5 years. My salary is stagnant and with the rise of my health insurance, the rent and gas my actual income has gone down quite a bit. My 401k is in the tank. The Bay Area economy is coming back—for people under 30. My congressperson, Jackie Speier, won’t answer any of my letters or emails. Can’t believe the Democrats have the gall to say we are better off than 4 years ago. And now with the Dream Act kids flooding the job market in the Bay Area, it’s going to get worse. It’s very discouraging.
“Feeling Sorry for Maureen Dowd”
Personally, I don’t waste time feeling sorry for rabid animals.
But, whatever floats your boat.
La Dowdie has a beef against Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular, and she probably identifies these with white males as well as with childhood trauma of some sort. Her articles can be amusing, once you accept that her bitterness against white Christians skews her world view. No wonder she has found such an accommodating employer.
Actually, Maureen’ found niche that gets her paid to live behind computer donning rollers and bathrobe reading real writers’ copy then writing her own, let’s call it, parody; creative truth be hanged. Now that you know, keep reading her tripe far from me. This note is my exception, stapled to my last will and testament. ;O)
The New York Times is the Pravda of the United States.
The dirty little secret is that Ms Dowd and the others at the “Times” are off on vacation until after the election and the columns are being written at the DNC until that time to save the effort of rewriting the official line. That Debbie Washername-Shultz is quite a stylist.
Maureen, I have four hens. Two of them lay tan eggs and two of them lay brown eggs. Eggshell, indeed.
1/ drinks breakfast
2/ has issues of…er…seepage and freshness
See? Anyone can play.
What an offensive person. I’ve taken just about all I can from these Luddites, they put out a false premise, then the bobbleheads on TV find themselves trying to argue the false premise??!! Try asking them first what the facts are and when they bluster and get ugly, keep hammering on real facts. Why be polite to people who sell snake oil and are on the verge of making everybody buy it? They sure as h3ll aren’t when they get challenged.
BTW, Maurie, I really really really couldn’t care less what you Think, I want to know what, when, where, how.
…….I thought so…..empty chair indeed.
“Blindingly white” indeed!
“I have a dream that (they) will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Maureen Dowd’s latest
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/opinion/dowd-the-comeback-vegan.html?_r=1&hp
This is my interpretation:
Bill Clinton is insanely jealous of wolf smile Obama. Bill is CAin he sacrifice his Veggies to God and God gives him the back hand and Favored wolf smile who sacrifice fresh steak meat dripping with blood to God so God have him win the 2008 election. The people are fickle because they got taste of how poor people live beneath them so some would vote for Adolf Hitler if push comes to shove.
Trusting in the Wacko people is a great art , God sending his Invisble Angels making sure Adolph Hitler does not win USA as I see in storm front wackos Bill Clinton would smootch with if the crowd was big enough as we saw when he throw poor women under the bus and now he is Heart attack Bill.
God had Mercy on Bill because he did not get away with murdering wolf smile fresh meat sacrifcer Barrack Obama so he speak to Dem convention and smooch with wackos
Maureen Dowd may or may not be aware of it, but she is a creation of Tennessee Williams.
“To hear Maureen Dowd tell it, Mitt Romney is heartless plutocrat.”
That’s because she’s a brainless Demo[Aristo]crat.
How disappointing! I came here to express my agreement with the article, only to find that liberals are correct to see conservative men as sexist. M Dowd is “old”, “wrinkled”, “frustrated”..and these are just the nicer comments. Sadly, I’ve read many similar comments made by so called conservatives about Nancy Pelosi. Why make a personal attack about a woman’s age, looks and “dating” habits unless you actually believe that age or unattractiveness or the lack of attachment to a man make a woman less worthy of consideration. As much as I disagree with the caricature liberals have made of conservatives, they are right on this one.
I think it is a case of sibling rivalry. She used to bring up her brother–she knows he’s right. She can’t stand it, so she covers it with hysterical ranting, teenage emotional impotent ranting. Ugh.