Maureen Dowd Op-Ed

Maureen Dowd, this weekend: Obama should try to be “dynamic” like Sarah Palin , instead of all this “dithering” and bowing. Today, Ross Douthat writes a “reality-based” column on more or less the same topic! What is even going on, when “liberal columnist” Maureen Dowd writes a column about how Obama should govern the country the way Sarah Palin promotes books, and token conservative Ross “still at least definitely not Bill Kristol” Douthat patiently explains that Huckabee and Palin are both ridiculous jokes. Well, what is going on is that Ross “cares” about the “credibility” of the Republican party, and also he knows, as ... Read Full Story

The Battered New York Times Originally uploaded by Madison Guy New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Maureen Dowd So The Old Grey Lady Op-Ed column has good things to say about Caroline Kennedy in her quest to become appointed as the next Senator from the great State of New York (the paper, certainly not Maureen Dowd when referring to The Old Grey Lady). What Are The Qualifications of Caroline Kennedy Most Impressive To Dowd ? "So I found it bizarre that when Caroline offered to use her magic capital — and friendship with Barack Obama — to help take care of New York in this ... Read Full Story

Gee, even when Maureen Dowd is "sweet" on Caroline, she still gets in a few cutting remarks against Caroline Kennedy's speech patterns. Most of us have caught ourselves doing something to that effect when nervous, or especially when caught off guard. Yet, that issue with Kennedy isn't what bothers voters. It has been the sense of inevitability that the media has helped her to project to the public. I can agree with Dowd that Caroline speaks a lot better than Al D'Amato, but that isn't the way for Maureen Dowd to promote the candidacy of Caroline Kennedy. Dowd says she watched Dick Cheney swear ... Read Full Story

by Madeleine Begun Kane Fuming About Hume What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship. And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done without them.” Fuming About Hume (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane The blogs are a threat to the news Cuz they’re slanted, says Hume, in their views. A fellow from Fox Casting “partisan” knocks? To Hume I must say, “Brit, j’accuse.” Dear Maureen Dowd, I Don’t ... Read Full Story

In a column in today's New York Times , Maureen Dowd attempts to portray what appears to be a potentially very offensive book about the first lady, Laura Bush, as just another book that anyone might read. With utter unctuousness Ms. Dowd says, "It’s the sort of novel Laura Bush might curl up with in the White House solarium if it were not about Laura Bush. It would be interesting to hear how that lover of fiction feels about being the subject of fiction." This is an incredible, unsupported assumption on the part of Ms. Dowd. It assumes she knows the reading habits of ... Read Full Story

By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON, D.C. - While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fund-raiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention. You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps. Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn’t eat candy. In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama. Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction ... Read Full Story

When Maureen Dowd is good she is very, very good. But when Maureen Dowd is bad she's rotten. Whether it's shellacking Hillary Clinton or ridiculing various limp-wristed Liberal girly men , she's not happy unless she's snarky. She's loves to bare her teeth and rip the flesh as she belittles and ridicules the subjects she deems inferior. She's also insanely hard on women in powerful positions to the point that if she were a man she'd most undoubtedly would be a misogynist. But since she's a woman it's just ironic that she often has it out for other power gals who are opinionated as ... Read Full Story