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I don't know how many here on DU read Maureen Dowd who only appears in the NY Times on Sundays. She can be snarky, funny, or irrelevant (as can we all). She's a Democrat and occasionally mentions her right wing family. In today's NY Times, she turned the space for her op-ed column over to her wingnut brother. Seems that wingnuts don't just live in a different universe, they also live in some sort of warped "reality." Here's the link.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/thanksgiving-dowd-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
keithbvadu2
(39,778 posts)Girard442
(6,382 posts)patricia92243
(12,795 posts)Iris
(15,989 posts)patricia92243
(12,795 posts)Iris
(15,989 posts)She called it a threnody which I had to look up! It's a lament - which I thought was funny.
Cyrano
(15,287 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)dalton99a
(83,912 posts)and how we must join their cause - to promote ignorance and bigotry in the United States
Cha
(304,419 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(23,635 posts)demmiblue
(37,797 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,431 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)She spent most of 2000 lying about Al Gore, labeled Obama Obambi in 08 and has been smearing the Clintons for almost 30 years.
dalton99a
(83,912 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,875 posts)She's a Democrat? She had me fooled, if that's really the case. Once in a while, she's right, but she spends far more time smearing Democrats than she does pointing out how corrupt and racist are the GOP.
SharonClark
(10,251 posts)From wkipedia...
A 2014 analysis by the left-leaning advocacy group Media Matters of 21 years of Maureen Dowd's columns about Hillary Clinton found that of the 195 columns by Dowd since November 1993 containing significant mentions of Clinton, 72 percent (141 columns) were negative towards Clinton.
During the 2016 presidential election, Dowd penned a controversial New York Times op-ed, titled "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk." Dowd argued that Trump held dovish foreign policy beliefs, citing his purported opposition to the invasion of Iraq. However, prior to the publication of the op-ed, it had been reported that Trump did in fact support the invasion, and there were no statements on the record opposing it. Throughout Trump's presidency, critics of his foreign policy referenced the Dowd op-ed, claiming that many of the actions taken by Trump were entirely inconsistent with the narrative put forth by Dowd.
Cyrano
(15,287 posts)her brother gives us a small glimpse into the mind of someone who admires someone who is totally insane.
Most of us can't grasp what goes on in the minds of Trumpists. Yet, today, Maureen Dowd gave us a glimpse of a mind seduced by utter madness.
Regardless of what you think of her, she is not the point of this article. The writings of her brother only serve to add to my belief that conservative Republicans are descended from a different prehistoric species than the rest of us.
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)Midnight Writer
(22,885 posts)This article is like Talk Radio crap, absent of facts and full of lies.
Cyrano
(15,287 posts)Today, Maureen Dowd did us a favor by replacing her own op-ed with that of her brother's.
Actually, reading the nonsense and idiocy they believe in can only make us more aware of who and what they are.
To me, it confirms my belief that Trump Republicans are enemies of truth, freedom, democracy and America.
Regardless of what you think of Dowd, her column, her past "offenses" against what most of us believe in, we really have to be grateful to her for printing this. It shows us the utter insanity that we are up against. And it shows us the thinking of our domestic enemies.
Squinch
(52,360 posts)JHB
(37,381 posts)Maybe Dowd is isolated from it, but let me tell you, plenty of us are not. We're in contact with it all the time, and jeez, they never shut up about the chips on their shoulder.
I've heard every point he raised before.
It's not that we're ignorant of the viewpoint.
It's that we've dealt with it for years and understand how insincere it is, how full of shit it is.
standingtall
(2,904 posts)If her wingnut brother wrote it than she likely allowed him to do it. So she is just as responsible for it. So I see why anyone on here is trying to defend her.
Cyrano
(15,287 posts)Exactly what else do you think should never appear on the pages of The New York Times?
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)Would be a good start.
GoneOffShore
(17,578 posts)She's neither a Cassandra nor a reasonable commentator.
I suspect that if Faux offered her a spot, she'd jump.
ismnotwasm
(42,419 posts)Dude says the same crap all Rights-wing nuts say, and, like all right-wing nuts, leaves out detail, nuance and truths all to implyTrump isnt what he absolutely the fuck is, a disgusting human being and a showman politician who repeats lies until his people believe them.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,746 posts)a category 5 delusional moron.
peggysue2
(11,435 posts)Her steady persecution of Bill and Hillary Clinton was toxic. So, I wouldn't be inclined to read anything her right-wing brother has to say. Just from the clips, he reminds me of Hugh Hewitt's mindless Trump defense at the Washington Post.
Lame!
andym
(5,603 posts)because it provides insight into the right-wing beliefs about Trump. It literally is a road map to deprogram them. It shows the full power of right-wing propaganda.
Perhaps the most important
"gave a strong economy"? He just sat on the rocket of expansion initiated Obama in 2009, until he messed it up with his Covid response.
"the economy will shortly be back to where it was under Obama." Where it was expanding every year Obama was in office.
kcr
(15,516 posts)to their wingnut family members, for good reason. Maureen Dowd is a hack and always has been.