I just sat down to read MoDo's latest wheeze:
He thought a little thing like winning would stop her?Oh, Bambi.
That's as far as I got.
Yes, amongst everything else, we face five months - or eight years - of Dowd writing "Obambi" and sniggering at her own cleverness.
There is something seriously wrong with that woman.
As always, see Molly Ivors for a proper takedown.
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Why is Maureen Dowd employed by the New York Times?
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The great Gene Kelly's widow slaps MoDo:
Re “Soft Shoe in Hard Times” (column, March 16):Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president’s clumsy performances. To suggest that “George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly” represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.
When Gene was compared to the grace and agility of Jack Dempsey, Wayne Gretzky and Willie Mays, he was delighted. But to be linked with a clunker — particularly one he would consider inept and demoralizing — would have sent him reeling.
Graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt, Gene was not only a gifted dancer, director and choreographer, he was also a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink. Exceedingly articulate, Gene often conveyed more through movement than others manage with words.
Sadly, President Bush fails to communicate meaningfully with either. For George Bush to become Gene Kelly would require impossible leaps in creativity, erudition and humility.
Patricia Ward Kelly
Los Angeles, March 16, 2008
For the hell of it here's Kelly with the leg-alicious Cyd Charisse in "Singin' in the Rain":
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Maureen Dowd hands her column over to Stephen Colbert and the improvement is remarkable.
The NYT ought to make this permanent. That way MoDo would have more time to get together with her girlfriends and make catty remarks about the unpopular people.
Oh, and we'd be rid of Dowd. Call that a bonus.
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...but Maureen Dowd is an idiot (Times $$$elect).
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I've long since given up on reading the NYT's excreble Maureen Dowd but it looks like she's lined up John Edwards for her patented brand of cattiness and destruction. Paul Waldman explains.
Dowd is the media's equivalent of the High School Queen Bitch Cheerleader - always pining for the "manly" but mentally-challenged quarterback (George W. Bush, George W. Bush) and ridiculing the class brain (Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards).
As Bob Somerby recently pointed out:
We scream about [Ann] Coulter—and give Dowd a pass. But when you read Dowd, you’re riding with Coulter! When will we get our heads out of our keisters and take ourselves where the harm is the greatest? It makes us feel good to savage vile Coulter. But what about simpering Dowd?
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On MoDo:
Consider Maureen Dowd, a perceptive and often witty columnist who understands very well how destructive the Bush presidency has been to her beloved country. Just the other day Dowd acknowledged in the New York Times that we and the world would be in considerably better shape today had Gore -- whom she described as "prescient on climate change, the Internet, terrorism and Iraq" -- ascended to the Oval Office instead of the current occupant. But she neither noted the guilt of the media in that travesty nor recalled her own starring role. This compilation of her past columns on the subject of Gore, replete with false accusations and trendy sneering, is must reading.Particularly catty and revealing is a quote from a 1999 column in which she suggested that Gore's environmentalism raised questions about his masculinity. But that was simply one episode among dozens that continued well after the 2000 election cycle. When the former vice president dared to voice his anger about the bloody debacle in Iraq two years ago, the Times columnist sweetly lumped him in with "the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party." He had to be nuts to be upset about the lies that led us into war, didn't he?
I just call her a bitch. Sexist, maybe, but fitting.
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In a replay of 2000 the NYT's Maureen Dowd selectively edits an interview with Al Gore in order to make him look bad.
It looks like MoDo is sharpening her claws in case Gore decides to run. I can't figure out what her problem is; did Gore run over her puppy or something? Abandon her on a date? Or is Dowd just the High School Queen Bitch of the pundit class?
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