I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
mmeeeoooowwww!
MoDo dissin' Dean again?
Whoa! THAT's news!
I'm cornfused at the Michael Douglas reference?
Ooooops.
I forgot the sarcasm thingee.
-s-
Well, it does prove that MoDo spends no more than 5 minutes thinking about her column.
I've got a great idea! How about I trash Howard Dean's marriage in one of the nation's most-read newspapers, and then get pissed when he doesn't return my call!
Yes, but what was he wearing.
I would think Mo Dowd spends lots of time waiting by the phone for her would-be suitors. I hope Michael Douglas calls her soon, so she can get on with her life...
shorter MoDo;
Wwwwaaahhhhhhh!!!
Can't someone lobotomize these motherfuckers with a red-hot coathanger so they can't write this drivel anymore? Retroactive abortions for the lot of them.
Quiz time! Multiple choice:
What's worse?
a) narcissistic pundits
b) reporting the act of being narcissistic by narcissistic pundits, as though that proves themselves and their work unnarcissistic. And as though that reporting is actual news.
There may be more than one correct answer.
Has Maureen been pining after some of hot Howard?
You know, I hear that Maureen Dowd switched from business suits to sweaters to make her more appealing to NYT readers.
Wes Clark said so in his column.
Shorter David Brooks in today's NYTimes -
Dean is worst Democratic candidate b/c he is the least Republican-like.
Naturally, he gives high marks to the Lieberman.
A Republican by any other name wouldn't smell like poo? Is that why Lieberman keeps up this charade?
What a petty, narcissistic little ass she is. She's pathetic really. And the shamelessness with she advertises her vindictiveness.
The nerve of complaining about the politics of the self when everything is always, all about Maureen. Remember her gas mask adventures following 9/11? I decided then the only thing that kept her from psychosis was her unutterable lack of depth.
These people are disgusting. I fucking hate the American media. Degenerate, nihilistic know-nothings. I fucking hate them! I don't care what anyone says the NYT is as bad as Fox. Worse even. You can at least see Fox's fingers crossed behind its back. The NYT is so fucking earnest and full of itself.
Poor Maureen, maybe Dean was busy talking about issues and the problems facing this nation and forgot to chat with poor MoDo about cool stuff like clothes, "Campaign Arcs", horse races and most importantly, Maureen.
Hey Mo, your not the only one who can be snarky - oh yes don't forget your only a journalist so it's not about you.
Well, here's my story, which might give some insight into what Howard Dean is all about-- This past summer Dean appeared at a waterfront rally here in my little town in upstate New York. I helped out with organization of the event, and a couple days later Dean managed to find me on the cell phone as I was motoring along the interstate highway, and called to say Thanks.
We chatted for a while about politics and had a few laughs- he couldn't have been nicer. Sorry it didn't work out for you, Maureen...
"They want to know the evolution of the man, even if it's a myth."
Is Dowd dissing the wacko Christian fundamentalists by bringing evolution into the picture? As far as myths go, W's whole life is one long bullshit saga. Dean was right to snub this asinine bitch. His wife may not be a Playboy model, but I think he considers her more useful than just a lump of flesh.
Oh yeah: In a nation where getting a doctor to look after your health in a timely matter is getting increasingly difficult, Moron Dowd suggests that one less doctor continue her regular practice.
Maybe if Morbid Dread lived near Shelburne VT and not Park Avenue, she'
d see what rural folks are up against and have a smidgeon of empathy.
And the Good Fairy will leave a million dollars in my mailbox, too
God dammit, someone find this bitch, get in her face, and scream at the top of your lungs "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU YOU STUPID CUNT"
If I weren't dead, I'd do it myself.
Oh yeah: In a nation where getting a doctor to look after your health in a timely matter is getting increasingly difficult, Moron Dowd suggests that one less doctor continue her regular practice.
Maybe if Morbid Dread lived near Shelburne VT and not Park Avenue, she'
d see what rural folks are up against and have a smidgeon of empathy.
And the Good Fairy will leave a million dollars in my mailbox, too
This Drudge thing isn't satire?
Weren't Brooks' ratings a scream?
Why was I able to guess ahead of
time who would get the As and who
the Ds and Fs?
Someone is paying this jerk good
money to write this foolishness.
From my letter to Ms. Dowd
Do us NYT readers a favor next time, Ms. Dowd. I know it's fun being a columnist and all that--it means you can be paid top dollar to piggyback on the work of your colleague Jodi Wilgoren (who at least did some real interviews with Dr. Steinberg for her piece) without leaving your workstation or picking up a phone. But here's some free advice: try doing some real reporting for a change the next time you write about national affairs. Make an attempt to talk to the people you plan to slander the next time you want to write one of your bitchy little screeds. Then you can at least pretend you are a practicing professional journalist, instead of writing like a high-school gossip columnist who is upset that the captain of the student council won't smile at her.
Looks like I'm prescient. Whining about being snubbed, just like in my last sentence.
Am I a great judge of character, or what? 
Maureen Dowd was in a relationship with Michael Douglas for a short time in the late '90s - for those who were wondering.
As to the substance of the column...well...yeah. It's called karma, Maureen.
The interesting thing is that Bush has proven you can bitchslap the media and they'll still come back for more abuse. I suppose they have to transpose that abuse onto the Democrats - their battered women's syndrome won't allow them any other choice.
But I'm with the New Yok Times!!! Got that Howard!!! The New York #&*%!Times!!!!
We can break you, we have the power.
Love, Mo Do
PS No, I don't know why Susan Estrich and I have the same speaking voice.
Has Maureen been pining after some of hot Howard?
Good lord! I know I am. Jeez, he looked like a gay porn star in his younger days. [lecherous growl].
So Maureen Dowd's going to write a column whining about what nerve Dean has to not make time for her for a phone interview, and that column is going to come out on the same day that Dean is going to be spending the morning meeting with the 39th president of the United States?
Uh, priorities, anyone?
Gore didn't call Joe.
Dean didn't call MoDo the Ho.
Some sort of new Republican attack meme?
Has Maureen been pining after some of hot Howard?
Howard, you STUD! (And I'm straight. Not that there's anything wrong with . . . oh, never mind) Someone needs to weave some of these old photos into a campaign ad.
admit it, now: doesn't how-weird seem a bit insane?
If I'd just dissed the wife of a presidential candidate in my column, and basically insinuated that this highly-educated woman who has an important job in a rural community ought to drop it all to campaign for her hubby, I wouldn't even expect the hubby to play nice. Dowd must be hugely deluded.
If I'd been Howard Dean, I would have told Maureen Dowd very slowly and very carefully that my wife does have a job and that "I don't like the fact that you are questioning my wife's choices. You're a woman, right? Do you want someone dictating your choices to you? Then why are you dictating to my wife?"
I think I'm up to three donations owed to the Dean campaign for three dissings of Dr. Steinberg this week....
MoDo fiddles, while Rome burns:
-----------------------------------
Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia
Friends hunt ducks together, even as the justice is set to hear the vice president's case.
By David G. Savage
L.A. Times Staff Writer
January 17, 2004
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force.
While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially.
But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."
Federal law says "any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned." For nearly three years, Cheney has been fighting demands that he reveal whether he met with energy industry officials, including Kenneth L. Lay when he was chairman of Enron, while he was formulating the president's energy policy.
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Gore didn't call Joe.
Dean didn't call MoDo the Ho.
Some sort of new Republican attack meme?
No, Repubs have always played the "victim" card when they don't get their way. Typical bullies. It plays well to their constituency, also typical bullies.
It might be worth waiting to read the actual article by DoDo. Perhaps there is more to this than meets Drudge's eye.
why does maureen hate women?
oh my, dean is way hotter than i thought. whoa baby.
and fucking a! he played ON the football team and wasn't a sissy cheerleader.
why does everyone shit on dowd? she's a sophisticated gossipist. it's fish in a barrel.
Good for Dean if he did this on purpose. It shows self-respect not to pander to a woman who was vicious to his family and a sense of loyalty to those he cares about. Great qualities.
On the other hand, it could have had as much to do with the fact that he's too fricking busy talking to the voters. Maureen might want to get her ass out of her cushy office and get on the bus with Dean. That is if he would let her on.
This is the problem with the media. They have forgotten this is not all about them. If there is a God and s/he has any compassion, he will expedite the irrelavence of the media soon.
Another story that can only help Dean. BTW, Friends and Fox where defending Dean over the Trooper story yesterday saying it was pretty much a joke and so what. Of course it did give them a chance to bash Clinton because they claim Chris Lehane is behind the smear campaign against Dean (as do Kerry’s and Dean’s campaign managers) and that Clinton sent Lehane to Clark. Don’t ask why I was watching Faux.
and fucking a! he played ON the football team and wasn't a sissy cheerleader.
Oh, someone PLEASE find a photo of Bush cheerleading and put it next to Dean's football photo ("While Bush was content to stand on the sidelines . . .").
How much fun could we have with THAT one?
maybe howard wanted to call his wife
is it really a good career move to advertise that a politician does not think you are worth talking to?
you know what to do posters-
public@nytimes.com
oh
and one more thing
Sulzberger should resign
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=nyt
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Check out World o' Crap http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/
He does a valuable service of dissecting Townhall columnists on a regular basis. This week the theme is "let's be catty like MoDo".
Kathleen Parker has decided that Mrs. Dean is going to show up at state dinners in a paisley sari and birkenstocks.
Rich Tucker goes one better and claims that Chelsea Clinton was an underage drinker.
http://www.townhall.com/
columnis...t20040116.shtml
You can contact this person at the bottom of his column and express your opinion of people who attack the Clintons through their daughter. He, of course, claims that the obedient press didn't cover Chelsea's partying for fear of enraging the all-powerful Clintons. Yeah, right, got this nice gift-wrapped bridge for sale, cheap!
After rummaging through his suitcases and closet, Dean concluded he did not have a sweater which MoDo would find agreeable. Not wishing to insult the fashion maven, Dean opted out of the interview.
so good
it had to be repeated
"maybe howard wanted to call his wife
samlex"
If she speaks like she writes, I wouldn't want to talk to her either.
But her attitude makes me wonder - can self-absorption become so intense that a person becomes an intellectual black hole?
Howard is definitely hot stud meat.
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i...126&
s=goldstein
why does everyone shit on dowd? she's a sophisticated gossipist. it's fish in a barrel.
That woman in the corner, cold playin' the role
Just leave her ass in the corner till her feet get cold
Knowin' for a fact, that girl is whacked
If you hold your hand out, she'll turn her back
Better walk, don't talk, she's all pretend
Can't be her friend unless you spend
Wall to wall, after all
Get ready to throw only money at the bitch
cause she thinks she's so-
phisticated
So how did Drudge get this story, assuming it does prove true? Did MoDo call her flamer friend to cry on his shoulder about the cruelties of men? Did they weep softly together over omelettes? Egg sammiches? Or did she promptly blab to a rival campaign operative who in turn prompty fed it to the Eggster? What fool Democrat would ever talk to that wretched little man?
Does MoDO have an editor? I blame Gail Collins and Okrent as much as her.
For her own sake she should reconsider printing this piece. For our sake, please please Maureen, print it. Nothing like announcing to your peers, not to mention the world, "I'm so incompetent that I'm incapable of getting a story because I have no clue about how to go about doing it."
Earth to Maureen. Journalism is suppose to be hard work.
Here's a picture of Georgie:
http://cheerleading.about.com/
li...rldr_puzzle.jpg
LA Times had a story the other day about a talk radio host in Bakersfield (Cox, I think) that actually took credit for having gotten Arnie elected.
That speaks volumes about today's media.
They see themselves as part of the elite, they ARE the opinion shapers and the peons of America must wait on their genius with breathless anticipation.
Hmmm--Bakersfield is a tiny radio market which is at least 2/3's reactionary. Therefore, Cox is full of it.
One cannot even make the case that my co-workers John and Ken had that much to do with it--Davis was a goner as soon as Issa paid for an army of out-o-staters to repeal his election via petition.
The media sucks--on every level. Unbelievable, biased to the advantage of the privileged, and sucking up to their bosses like the fucking Tories they are, however much they refuse to acknowledge it.
Bush Cheerleader:
http://www.celebrity-pics.net/dp.../files/2-
22.gif
LA Times had a story the other day about a talk radio host in Bakersfield (Cox, I think) that actually took credit for having gotten Arnie elected.
That speaks volumes about today's media.
They see themselves as part of the elite, they ARE the opinion shapers and the peons of America must wait on their genius with breathless anticipation.
Hmmm--Bakersfield is a tiny radio market which is at least 2/3's reactionary. Therefore, Cox is full of it.
One cannot even make the case that my co-workers John and Ken had that much to do with it--Davis was a goner as soon as Issa paid for an army of out-o-staters to repeal his election via petition.
The media sucks--on every level. Unbelievable, biased to the advantage of the privileged, and sucking up to their bosses like the fucking Tories they are, however much they refuse to acknowledge it.
But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
Not.
What a total asshole.
And jeepers-- Howard was "hot" (spoken strictly and objectively as a heterosexual male here). I like the idea of putting pics of Dean as a football player and Bush as a cheerleader side-by-side. That'd work!
Felix - excellent Public Enemy tune.
The media reminds me of an anecdote I once read. This guy was on the subway in the first car and this man came in, went to the front window, suction-cupped one of those children's steering wheels to it, and pretended to be driving the train. The media thinks that they are driving the train and the gopers allow them to believe in that fantasy.
...someone find this bitch, get in her face, and scream at the top of your lungs "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU YOU STUPID CUNT!"
I think Howard just did.
this is what i wrote her. call me an optimist.
dear ms dowd
ive defended your work for the past three years.
i thought you were clever, with a distinctive voice.
i even worried about your abscence from the oped page.
but your 2 columns since you've come back from vacation...I almost cant believe that you wrote them. they are just so dumb & superficial.
this is the most crucial election in our history.
you have the gift of valuable oped space. its in your power to give us useful information, the kind that i know is exclusive to you.
but these last two columns were as if someone wanted to parody Maureen Dowd's take on the "conventional wisdom".
I know you have so much more to offer.
ROFLMAO!! You guys are hilarious. On the same day you guys make vows not to let guys like Drudge turn you into a circular firing squad, you link to his site so you can start taking pot shots at a liberal pundit. HAHAHAHAA!!!
But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."
Long Scalia: "It do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned, because it's unreasonable to question something that doesn't exist."
I hate with things are taken out of context.
Atilla the NeoCon--
The hun spelled his name quite differently, moron.
Atilla - your're welcome to Maureen. We don't claim her.
Atilla (shouldn't that be "Attila"? But I digress...), she's not a liberal. She's irrelevant. The problem is she thinks she's not.
Atilla the NeoCon. Oh we so dumb. Everyone stop! Thanks Atilla for telling us she's a liberal. We couldn't tell from her assinine writing.
Talking to the wrong party bucko. We aren't sheep.
"But her attitude makes me wonder - can self-absorption become so intense that a person becomes an intellectual black hole?"
Shit, no kidding. Have standards really deteriorated this far? We know the "liberal media" is made up of self-promoting whores, but something like this really seems to be pushing the limit. At least with Clinton, Dowd had a bunch of faux scandals to pretend to be outraged over, but this is just...pathetic. It really is on the level of bitchy high school gossip. That Dowd would dare write a column spitting abuse because the man wouldn't - horror of horrors - return her phone call...it's ridiculous. Does she really have no idea how this sort of thing looks to the rest of us out in the real world?
dear atilla....fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. by the way, are you a yale grad?
And here's the kicker: She goes into full Heather Mode, bitching about Dean not being sufficiently ass-kissing to her...after she's previously slimed his wife and family!!! What the hell else did she expect? Open arms?
I think you Americans who are supporting Dean have it right: Whatever his faults, at least the man behaves like an Opposition Party Democrat. And the SCLM obviously doesn't like it one little bit.
Well, all I can say, considering this is Drudge this information is coming from is...
...I hope Maureen Dowd writes the column Drudge is expecting, now.
All that ink spilled over he jayson Blair nonsesne, Howell Raines be "imperious" and so forth and nary a fourth estate objection to David "It's Just a Joke!" Brooks and Maureen "Howard Dean won't return my phone calls!" Dowd.
Did he ever instant message her?
Magnum's link to Dean in college sure needs
wider circulation:
http://www.carlwithak.com/images...s/
hothoward.jpg
Not only does it provide, as indicated
by Thumb, a great contrast to the silly
fratboy reveling of the Great Divider,
it's breathtaking. And it certainly makes
one year for a devoted media to start
thumbing through yearbooks and college
newspapers in search of more of the
same-- that is, more images of the pre-med
doc and more information on his football
career. Time enough when they start
writing bios after the eight years in which
the country doctor began to restore
America to its basic principles, of
course, but why wait to spread the news.
Smart, successful, right on, AND he was
a hunk who could whup Georgie's butt
then and who is gonna whup it now.
HACK! HACK! HACK! HACK! HACK!!!!
This is Drudge, so it's probably all made up, but let's assume it's true MoDo said:
"Personal history shouldn't be a substitute for policy."
You have got to be freakin' kidding me! This bimbo spent her last two columns writing about Clark's sweaters and Mrs. Dean's sneakers. If she knows the first thing about their policy positions, she sure ain't writing about it.
When has MoDo ever put policy before a juicy piece of gossip? I bet she couldn't tell you one meaningful thing about Hillary Clinton's policy stances, but she sure made up a fake list of stuff Hillary allegedly coveted in a hurry.
Gail Collins, what is wrong with you? You are the NEW YORK TIMES! You are supposed to be THE standard all others aspire to.
Have you no pride?
It doesn't make one YEAR, it makes one
YEARN. At least, that's the word I meant, and that's the idea intended.
Sorry.
Saturday January 17, 2004 6:31 PM
By ANNE GEARAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to decide by summer whether national security justifies detention of American citizens indefinitely and without charges.
papawasarollingstone answered someone: Maureen Dowd was in a relationship with Michael Douglas for a short time in the late '90s - for those who were wondering.
Uh oh, is MoDo's fascination with Dean following the plot of a Michael Douglas movie? The one where she terrorizes the guy's wife and tries to boil their kid's bunny rabbit?
Watch out, Howard! Showers, not baths, Judy! Pets bigger than stock pots, Dean children!
Maureen Dowd's Marriage and Career Advice to Politicians
My final judgment on Dowd
"As they say, if you keep doing what you're doing you'll keep getting what you got."
"They" was Aristotle!
We are defined by what we do repeatedly, therefore excellence is a habit, not an act.
-Aristotle
"It's so hard being me!"
... or was that "It's not easy being me!" ?
Meh. Either way, Dowd's a whiny idiot.
I saw nothing in that Drudge smutfest that informed us exactly why Dean backed out, thus less informed readers are not allowed to make a judgement on whether the error was forgivable?
On a lighter note, Annthrax Culture should look upon the notion of Dean not returning a lady's phone calls as proof that Dean is her type of a 'manly man'.
MYOB'
.
Havent we learned - Dont trust any SLUDGE from Drudge!
Just this week alone:
- "Troopergate"
- Clark's alqeada/saddam "connection"
All lies!! IMO Sludge is an operative and when you quote him you're playing on Rove's home field. If we dont quote Rush then why quote this liar?
Regarding Dowd Ill believe when I see it Sun. If true then I'll write another letter to her Vapidness
Mark W, good letter -- I hope you send/sent it to the NYTimes.
Howard snubs Maureen Dowd ?
If Maureen were a fish... guess she could write about another Dean gaffe?
Get it... fish - gaffe. Bait - caught.
Oh never mind, only for those high brow readers concerned with sweaters.
"Personal history shouldn't be a substitute for policy." - Maureen Dowd
Indeed, and vapid columns about what the candidates are wearing and their "wacky" marriages and what their WIVES are wearing, for Christ's sake, shouldn't be a substitute for discussion of policy.
Can't someone lobotomize these motherfuckers with a red-hot coathanger
How would we tell the difference?
Good...The beeyotch fianally got what she deserved.
Journalism is dead. I really hope the Democratic candidates start to make an issue of the smug, lazy, self-important media elite, and refuse to let disgraceful whores like Ted Koppel and Tim Russert moderate any more debates....
"finally" I mean...damn, where the spell-checker on this thing?
Journalism isn't dead. Its just come down with a very bad headcold that it can't quite seem to shake.
Just got off the phone with Sidney Blumenthal. Quite an earful that you'll all be reading about shortly.
Mars to planet earth. Your not welcome.
It's so touching how some people have come to defend MoDo's honor. But if you live by throwing acid in other people's face you've got to expect people to talk mean about you.
Always a shock how thin skinned these media whores are.
These stories recall the gossip from Versailles of St. Simon--a story like this would be headed "Inconceivable Rudeness of the Duc de Dean towards le Comtesse Dowd", and relate his refusal to pick up the handkerchief she dropped in front of him.
Now who came first: Maureen Dowd or Amy Archer? I'd like to think that Jennifer Jason Leigh created Amy out of whole cloth and 30's movies, but did she ever meet Dowd?
MoDo, a legend in her own mind.
I just thought it was funny that she had to travel all the way to Des Moines to get blown off in a phone interview. She could have stayed home and saved the Times the cost of a Holiday Inn room and a dinner at Spaghetti Works, and still gotten the same results.
Did she really need to travel to write anything that she writes? Unless her column is otherwise going to be about her hotel stay., or how fashion-unfocused Iowans she encounters (yeah, right!) are.
One can certainly imagine that Maureen didn't think she was being stood up for that 5 minutes, just that the call was late.
After she realized she's been dissed, she more likely than not spent hours pondering how best to paint Howard Dean negatively (and surely having a foundation from which to build of time which she had already spent in this endeavor).
Incidentally, that's the funniest lead I've ever read. I know it's not mainstream media, but it's not the Onion either. Way better than Nedra.
Uh oh, is MoDo's fascination with Dean following the plot of a Michael Douglas movie? The one where she terrorizes the guy's wife and tries to boil their kid's bunny rabbit?
As I recall, Glenn Close actually did boil the rabbit.
I just read the column, which is up on the NYTimes site. Not so bad, actually. She has a little bitty point about Dean's lack of a conventional campaign "personal" heroic backstory, though the effect is really to raise the question why anyone gives a shit about that.
Shorter MoDo:
Waaahhhhhhh!!! Wah-Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Thanks, Streaker, but the one who should send the letter is echidne. Check out that link to her (goddess?) blog on her post.
refuse to let disgraceful whores like Ted Koppel and Tim Russert moderate any more debates - I second the motion. That's why I lean to Dean and Clark, they would have no second thoughts about cleaning these whores' clocks when the venom flows from their mouths.
Remember, this is Drudgie...little problems with the ordering of reality...caution...use as directed...may cause drowsiness!
However, how funny...just imagine the slow build of humiliation for the poor sad old kitty-faced cow...Like Dick forgetting Grover's lotion just as Tony slides naked into their cozy sleeping bag...I'm gonna read tomorrow's NYT wearing my argyle and lying on my green shag carpet.
Well.. Sludge might actually be giving the truth this time seeing as MoDo's newest article refers to the phone snub.
There's a running bit in the Who movie, "The Kids Are Alright", where the boys are being interviewed- along the way Keith Moon and Pete Townshend tear each other's shirts apart.
Interviewer says "You can't be this crazy all the time, you're all married now, right?" Pete starts eyeing the interviewer's sport coat, and the he says, "If you touch my bleeding sleeve..." Keith starts in on a world class rant: "Oh, he's gettin stroppy now, eh? He says you leave 'is sleeves alone- they're personal, they are! Can't touch the interviewer, now can we? NOO! 'E's in command!" Keith is jabbing away at the host, who is beginning to look a bit scared "'E can make everybody else look like a right twit, so long as you don't have a go at him! An' 'ow long YOU been 'appily married?"
I would vote as often as I could for a candidate who would respond to the asinine pseudo-gods of our so-called journalism like that. Can you imagine the look on Koppel's face?
As one of the few (only) MoDo fans who dares to admit to this guilty pleasure, I do have to say that the recounting of this alleged incident made me laugh.
Since it's from Drudge, I have to put "alleged' in there, but even if it didn't happen, it would be funny if it did.
>Well.. Sludge might actually be giving the truth this time seeing as MoDo's newest article refers to the phone snub.
A-yep.
Think about this, people:
She actually called up Drudge to whine about this, knowing full well he'd put it up on the website.
Is she such a fucking alcoholic stewbum that she doesn't realize how grimly revealing this is -- and not of Howard Dean, either?
Is she aspiring to be the female version of Christopher Hitchens -- except that she skipped the extensive education and brain cells and went straight into the Korsakoff's Syndrome phase of things?
I mean, seriously:
She boasted to Matt Drudge about what a fucking petty, useless and self-absorbed cow she is. And she thinks she's such a CLEVER GIRL for doing so!
She thinks she's Christopher Hitchens, but she's not even Sally Quinn. But she might end up like Dorothy Parker.
Good for him.
She's not going to help him anyway.
Better to give her some rope. She may end up looking like an idiot.
Or not.
But she's not going to help him anyway.
ive alwyas thought Maureen Dowd is kinda cute.
One cannot even make the case that my co-workers John and Ken had that much to do with it--Davis was a goner as soon as Issa paid for an army of out-o-staters to repeal his election via petition.
John and Ken are limp-dick white supremacists, constantly living in fear of the Mexicans taking over California. How they get to air their bullshit on KFI LA daily is beyond me. They're not even subtle about it ... just out and hate on the wetbacks.
I live with the satisfaction of knowing that they're dinosaurs, and despite their whining, their worst nightmares will come true, hopefully before they die ... very bitter.
Poor Maureen! Atrios, we're on the same page....After I blogged Dowd's column, I saw your comment. Mine was more along the lines of waiting for a guy to call (something most women know all about!) but same idea
I just read her editorial and the amazing thing to me is -- why didn't she go to where Dean was and talk to him there? She goes to Iowa and waits by the phone and gets mad that he's too busy to call one day before the caucus? What the hell is she thinking?
Is she so afraid of ugly clothes, she can't bear to go amongst regular people? I think ALL these people must be on oxycontin or some kind of drug!
Ask and you shall receive. Bush vs Dean photo here:
click.
Well, Drudge got this one right, it would seem. Dowd really did write about being snubbed by Dean.
I'm not gonna read it; I don't care. But listening to NPR this morning, several thoughtful Iowans said they were paying very careful attention to the candidates, and were so impressed (retail politics v. TV commercial politics; will wonders never cease?) that they are "undecided" or even flicking back and forth.
One woman even said she skews the polls, because she's so sick of phone calls she tells 'em she'll vote for whatever candidate whose calling, just to get off the phone.
So, is Dean's campaign sputtering? Or is the campaign itself finally getting started, and all the pontificating and pooh-bahing (another neologism!) once again proven to be worth the newsprint it's printed on, or the cyperspace it's posted in?
In other words, another thumbsucker from someone getting paid to fill column inches, with no idea what to say.
But she might end up like Dorothy Parker.
Phoenix Woman
too bad she didn't start off as witty as her, though
Ouch! Dowd really has come unglued by Dean, hasn't she. I think she's got the hots for him. It's kind of like Lucy Van Pelt picking on Charlie Brown but wishing he'd ask her on a date...
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