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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTypical Mo Dowd---she simply can't help herself.
"But if were going to have someone whos removed, always struggling to connect and emote, why not stick with the president we already have?Better the android you know than the android you dont know".
Mo Dowd in a nutshell: She writes a pretty good piece about Mitt, and then she fucks it up with this smack at Obama.
Sorry Mo--- Obama is anything but errrrr "removed".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/dowd-mitts-olympic-meddle.html?_r=1&hp
spanone
(137,284 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)being a Murdoch newspaper
still_one
(94,882 posts)unaware that he bought the times
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)oops I think he owns the Post
still_one
(94,882 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I stopped reading her years ago.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)boring due to being stuck in a box...
still_one
(94,882 posts)another rag that try to portray themselves as better than the rest, they aren't
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)they do the following in the Sunday edition:
Publish a front-page two-column above-the-fold apology to the people of Iraq and of the world for their role in propagandizing for the war
and (of equal importance)
Publish a front-page two-column above-the fold manifesto for an indictment of the Bush Junta for war crimes.
Oherwise, I hope the NYTimes goes fucking bankrupt.
DemocracyInaction
(2,506 posts)Just look at those bored unresponsive people at his rallies..............jackass
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Sorry she isn't devout enough.
trumad
(41,692 posts)She parroted the Ring Wing meme on Gore more than anyone.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Dowd wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating", while referring to the Democratic party as the "mommy party". Frank Zappa made similar comments about Tipper.
Years later, she said, "I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. Thats not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was sometimes a pompous messenger for them." Who can argue with that?
trumad
(41,692 posts)and you'll never think of Dowd the same way again.
leveymg
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trumad
(41,692 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)To tell you the truth, I didn't notice the changeover. But, I looked, and what I found was snide, unrelentingly intolerant of difference, and not a trace of a sense of humor.
And, I'm talking about DailyHowler.
For instance, take this little tid-bit:
DOWD (5/24/06): Enter Ozone Woman
Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole in the ozone layer.
At the National Press Club here yesterday, the New York senator finally took a passionate stand. After giving a courteous nod to her old rival Al as ''a committed visionary on global warming,'' she purloined his issue and his revolution, going his Earth Tones in the Balance one better by wearing a blinding yellow pantsuit that looked as if it could provide solar power to all of Tennessee.
Clinton had spoken about climate change. Inside Dowds degenerating brain, it was time to talk earth tones again!
That really only points out the futility of an inferior talent criticizing its betters. We'll have to disagree on this subject.
trumad
(41,692 posts)He ripped the shit out of Dowd during the Gore years and for very good reasons.
Many many times she took right wing talking points and used them in her pieces on Gore.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)or that Somersby's a bad writer. Just that Dowd is a better writer - but, that doesn't mean that I can't disagree with both on some things, while still respecting their obvious talents and intelligence.
As for Gore, I voted for him on multiple occasions-- by the standards of most American politicians, he's a visionary thinker -- but rarely connected with him emotionally, which tells me he lacks something as a politician, which is not a good thing for him, given his chosen line of work.
Clinton, both of them (c. 1992), and Obama (c.2008), I adored. Supremely gifted, all of them. But, over time my feelings for them have faded, while my political views haven't changed much, merely becoming more disillusioned with the promise of change and hope for the power of gifted leadership. That may tell you more about me than them.
He lays out the facts over and over about Mo and you push that off because he was a roommate of Gore?
Facts--Facts---Facts.... all archived from Mo's own words.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)American politicians of either party, very much. Did she find Gore pompous and oozing self-importance, making him an easy target for drubbing? Of course. Did she savage the Boy King and War President? Constantly. Does she find Obama a bit robotic in his delivery, sometimes. She isn't the first to take notice of that. Is any of that unfair? Perhaps.
Maureen Dowd is an opinion columnist of a particular and disappearing kind. She makes picking on political figures an art form, and she's polymorphously perverse about it.
But, she is entertaining, even if she is bound to offend someone. It's what she does.
Mo Dowd is takes what she hears at cocktails parties and translates them into her errr opinion pieces.
Gore's oozing self importance? Tell us how you really feel.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)finding anything funny about 8 years of President George W. Bush. Nor how Dowd helped to make that happen with her "humor".
I'm not sure how you think that snip proves the massive talent of Dowd. That she uses her forum to turn a discussion about a serious issue into jokes about clothing. Global warming? Haw, haw, haw, a yellow pantsuit, and earth tones. You know, a bullshit meme that the M$M used to help put George W. Bush in the White House. What could be funnier?
unblock
(53,917 posts)hatrack
(60,347 posts)Except you couldn't, because he was an angry dry-drunk.
Now we're confronted with the spectacle of someone you couldn't have a beer with - or a cup of coffee, or glass of ice tea, or even a Coke.
That's in addition to not wanting to have a beer with him.
Wonder how they'll spin that into his all-American ordinariness?
unblock
(53,917 posts)sadly, history (and the republican party in particular) has proven that greed only needs a thin disguise.
most people will buy it every time.
Greybnk48
(10,329 posts)I quit reading her years ago. She's always off balance/not quite right.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)"Afflict the comfortable . . ." and all that.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I did find it to be odd, how she worked so hard to elect Bush, and then had nothing nice to say about the "Boy King".
BeyondGeography
(39,841 posts)You're kidding yourself if you think she's acting out of any principle.
If anyone struggles to connect with the common man, it's MoDo. She fancies herself as some sort of latter day Dorothy Parker. Except the jokes aren't really funny and fewer people are listening all the time.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)There's probably not much of an audience left in a polarized country for a humorist in a glass tower who sees it all as absurd.
The paper she writes for has lost its luster and pretense of being above the fray. Nobody buys the "of record" and "objectivity" and "bipartisanship" bullshit anymore. It may have worked once, until most of America below the 44th Floor ceased to work.
BeyondGeography
(39,841 posts)She got lost in the gender-related embroidery of politics a long time ago. Style over substance...there's an argument for it, but not much of one and only when times are good. The shitstorm has hit and she's still talking about the sitcom. I agree that her platform is diminished, but she has kind of pissed away her talent.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)The mood of America today is more the wreck of the Titanic than an afternoon at the bar of the Algonquin Hotel. Maybe another time, another place for such a free-range acerbic wit.
BeyondGeography
(39,841 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Nothing else seems important to her.
I also stopped reading her years ago. That kind of narcissism is just uninteresting. It is a mystery why she has a column at all.
Motown_Johnny
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magical thyme
(14,881 posts)First thing I thought of were his pix with kids.
Do the world a favor...send those pix to Maureen. Even send a couple showing Mitt with kids. The contrast is so stunning. Maybe that will help her understand the difference between an android and a real, live human who's comfortable in his own skin.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Apparently she hasn't seen them.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)a person on the back and the next she is sticking a knife in the back. With her it's a no win situation. Yet I think thats how she wants to come off. She is a good writer.
trumad
(41,692 posts)A gratuitous last minute smack like that makes her no better than these new fangled MSM'ers who think they have to be fair and balanced.
Greybnk48
(10,329 posts)That's just a tactic to confuse people. Gotta hate em all or love them all! Bullshit!! Someone is right, someone is wrong. Obama is warm and personable by anyone's standards, and Romney is not. That's a fact, it's not biased. We've seen it over and over.
trumad
(41,692 posts)The MSM will say--- Democrats disagree that the earth is flat, Who is right, who is wrong? Details at 6.
redqueen
(115,164 posts)unblock
(53,917 posts)who knew?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)What a nitwit.
PCIntern
(26,439 posts)Greybnk48
(10,329 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,747 posts)Yes, he's not Bill Clinton, but he's real...and funny...and empathic.
I wonder whether her editors made her change the piece?
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)writing a slam book.