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trumad

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7. She's a total windbag

Reply to FourScore (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 10:46 AM

Sep 2013

who like Peggy, is well past her prime.

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Maureen Dowd's constant snark is really, really tiresome. [View all] markpkessinger Sep 2013 OP

I seem to recall she was quite enamored of the president early on. Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #1

GMTA! I did the same with her column today. CTyankee Sep 2013 #2

Pardon my ignorance, but what is GMTA? FourScore Sep 2013 #4

They're acronyms leftynyc Sep 2013 #6

Technically, an acronym should be one that you pronounce as a word muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #9

Not according to this leftynyc Sep 2013 #12

Well, I hadn't read that, but notice it says some dictionaries say muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #13

Great minds think alike. CTyankee Sep 2013 #25

Her polemics and hyperbole can be entertaining, sharp, and cutting. leveymg Sep 2013 #3

Personally, I find her to be the most over-rated columnist out there -- FourScore Sep 2013 #5

She's a total windbag trumad Sep 2013 #7

This ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2013 #17

Best. Analogy. EVER! FourScore Sep 2013 #26

She's a gossip columnist. RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #8

Your father sounds like a newspaperman of quality and taste... JHB Sep 2013 #15

Yes, he was a "newspaperman." RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #16

Does anyone pay much attention to her now? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #10

Like a lot of witty women when she was younger lunatica Sep 2013 #11

I don't think there is anything wrong with bitter sarcasm Johonny Sep 2013 #14

I would say that the Rude Pundit's sarcasm is pretty joyous. He's not angry or bitter, he is having stevenleser Sep 2013 #23

Good take. She's what we call too clever by half. Demit Sep 2013 #30

There's a difference between humorous sarcasm and bitter sarcasm lunatica Sep 2013 #35

I've always believed Dowd's audience is not greater America but the Skidmore Sep 2013 #18

Well said! Scurrilous Sep 2013 #27

No, her constant snark is not tiresome AngryAmish Sep 2013 #19

You never know which way the wind is blowing when Dowd pens an article. Rex Sep 2013 #20

Sophomoric DemocracyInaction Sep 2013 #21

I have to say I never cared for her at all. hrmjustin Sep 2013 #22

She lost me when she worked so hard to get Bush elected in 2000 Orrex Sep 2013 #24

Thirty years ago I was in a focus group that the NY Times had commissioned The Second Stone Sep 2013 #28

I can't remember a time when she wasn't overrated, decidely NOT liberal, SheilaT Sep 2013 #29

The 2nd paragraph ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #31

Honestly, I can't believe anyone reads her column in the first place quinnox Sep 2013 #32

Her other "tell" is her use of "Barry" to refer to Obama July Sep 2013 #33

You know, there is an easy solution to your problem. LWolf Sep 2013 #34

She's just bitter that it's not 1999. nt Dreamer Tatum Sep 2013 #36