NY Times op-ed prints "Thoughts from wingnutville."

[Cyrano]

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]

1. 1+

[Girard442]

2. Absolutely no mention of COVID.

But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was your evening?

[patricia92243]

3. She sounds like a right-winger to me.

[Iris]

4. It was written by her brother.

[patricia92243]

8. Opps - I read it twice and still didn't see it :( Thanks

[Iris]

17. It was at the end of her introduction

She called it a threnody which I had to look up! It's a lament - which I thought was funny.

[Cyrano]

25. Yeah, I had to look it up too

[StarfishSaver]

5. Because we haven't heard enough from these people

[dalton99a]

12. +1. The more we hear from them, the better our understanding of how they suffer

and how we must join their cause - to promote ignorance and bigotry in the United States

[Cha]

31. Yeah.. thanks, Maureen.. not.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. One Dowd is quite enough, thank you.

[demmiblue]

10. No kidding. n/t

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. Trumpites live in a different dimension don't they???

[Dem4Life1102]

9. Dowd is no friend to Democrats

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]

13. +1. Dowd and Trump go way back, and she was one of his enablers in 2016.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yes, thank you!

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]

11. Dowd is NOT a Democrat and has written belittling articles about Democrats, especially Hillary.

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]

14. Can't disagree. Nonetheless, today's article by

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]

15. Well said

[Midnight Writer]

18. Regardless of Maureen Dowd, why would the NY Times print this Hannity style screed?

This article is like Talk Radio crap, absent of facts and full of lies.

[Cyrano]

26. Many DUers never read or watch wingnut bullshit

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]

19. No, thank you.

[JHB]

20. I don't need Maureen Dowd's brother to lecture me on the wingnutville viewpoint

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]

21. Looks to me like her name is on it

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]

27. Horrors! Someone printed a different, fucked up viewpoint.

Exactly what else do you think should never appear on the pages of The New York Times?

[Dem4Life1102]

28. Delusional lies

Would be a good start.

[GoneOffShore]

22. She apparently does this every year. And it's one of the reasons I avoid M'Odious' Dowd.

She's neither a Cassandra nor a reasonable commentator.
I suspect that if Faux offered her a spot, she'd jump.

[ismnotwasm]

23. What a load of mealy mouthed bullshit

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 isn’t 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]

24. I've always found her to be pretty mediocre, but that brother? Holy shit what

a category 5 delusional moron.

[peggysue2]

29. I stopped reading Dowd years ago

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]

30. Very useful to read it

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]

32. Dem columnists don't hand their columns over

to their wingnut family members, for good reason. Maureen Dowd is a hack and always has been.