Maureen Dowd biting the dog

[fpublic]

She gets it right:

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment-trial-witnesses.html|

“I feel like I have spent my career watching the same depressing dynamic that unspooled Friday night: Democrats trying, sometimes ineptly, to play fair and Republicans ruthlessly trying to win,” Dowd wrote. “I watched it with the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings. I watched it in the 2000 recount with Bush versus Gore. I watched it with the push by W., Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to go to war in Iraq. I watched it with the pantomime of Merrick Garland.”

“Democrats are warning Republicans that they will be judged harshly by history. But in the meantime, the triumphant Republicans get to make history. And a lot of the history that Republicans have made is frightening: the endless, futile wars, the obliviousness to climate change, the stamp on the judiciary,” she explained. “As with so many other pivotal moments in modern history, Republicans wanted to win, not look for the truth. And history, God help us, is written by the winners.”

Apologies if duplication, couldn't find in DU search.

[leftieNanner]

1. "History is written by the winners."

And DAMN IT, we will be writing this history!

GOTV People!

[BarbD]

8. Right with you on this. GOTV

[LuvLoogie]

2. Maureen Dowd has buyer's remorse. That's all.

She's blaming the Democrats for not winning, while she sits on her ass and hurls veiled insults at them from her desk at The Times.

You know who else made history? Hitler.

But so did FDR, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, to name but a few.

Dowd's paper is very much part of why we have trump. She has always ripped on Hillary Clinton. Maureen can suck on that trumpsicle.

[LenaBaby61]

3. This clown is still relevant?

[greenman3610]

10. goes back to Gore

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. Plus Mo was a cheerleader for the illegal invasion of Iraq

She talks from both sides of her mouth

[Buzz cook]

17. Well said

Dowd has always had a thumb on the scale for democratic politicians.

[UpInArms]

4. MoDo is such a two faced lying beotch

Remember when she could badmouth So Gore by writing about his earthtoned clothes?

I do. ... She has bothersiderismed me to death.

[CaptYossarian]

5. We're ineptly playing fair again while the Republicans are just being themselves.

Maybe we wasted our childhoods watching Dudley Dooright while the Reptilian Party was rooting for Boris and Natasha. Those bastards slithered into church every Sunday and we're the ones with the morals and actual patriotism.

Backwards Day is now lasting four years.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Day is night and Night is day. nt

[tiredtoo]

9. Playing fair again, check out the ad created by Bill Maher on youtube

I know there are many here that do not like Maher but the ad is super. I will try to put link here but i'm not very good at that stuff.

[CaptYossarian]

12. I watched the show last night. Great ad.

[Grasswire2]

20. Jimmy Fallon shows clips of Trump speech disasters every night

The audience loves them. And they are hilarious. But no one ever points out the pathology behind them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Frustratingly true. Every damn word.

[mountain grammy]

11. I can't stand her...but she's right about this.

[ananda]

14. Disagree

This history in the making will cause so much harm,
killling, and damage that it won't matter who "writes"
it.

There won't be anybody to read it ....

[Catch2.2]

15. This needs to be permanently placed...

on the homepage of DU!!! This needs to be read every day!

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Now she figures it out?

Dowd helped to give cover to the RNC for decades...now she is concerned? Hooray.

[Paladin]

18. I hate Dowd's guts. But she's absolutely correct, here.

All of you Play By The Rules Democrats need to wake up or just get out of the way. Your Goody Two Shoes approach has put us where we are, now. We need to be down in the gutters with the Republicans, kicking their asses. It may be too late, at this point.

[dalton99a]

19. She hopes history will forget her jihad against the Clintons

Dowd has covered nine elections, never more energetically than when a Clinton is running, because, famously, the New York Times columnist hates the Clintons – particularly Hillary. Over the years, Dowd has called her “shifty” and a “dominatrix”, a “manly girl”, and written endlessly about her “creepy” marriage to Bill, which she once described as a “repugnant arrangement”.

When Hillary first ran against Barack Obama, Dowd wrote of how pathetic it was “that she has to wage a major offensive … to make herself appear warm-blooded”, and commentary this year includes the sour gem: “After running as a man last time around, Hillary Clinton is now running as a woman.” Since she has a book out – The Year of Voting Dangerously, a collection of writings on the season’s political insanity – Dowd popped up on talk shows last weekend; arch, brittle and fairly twitching with the strain of being caught between Clinton and a hard place. It was a small, thrilling piece of drama alongside the frankly exhausting spectacle of the main event.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. I hate it when women are misogynists n/t

[Penrose]

22. Dowd is Correct

I have not always agreed with Mo Dowd but she is dead on correct in this article. I can't understand why Democrats keep playing this game with these cheats and liars. They should be calling it out at every opportunity. We should have marched on Washington when McConnell decided to refuse a hearing to Obama's supreme court pick.

[Skittles]

23. I cannot stand her but she is right

absolutely

[Grins]

24. Bill Maher said the same thing..

Either last week or the week before.
"Where's our Lee Atwater" Where's our Karl Rove? Where's our Roger Stone..."

The video is here on DU somewhere.