The Numbers Behind Maureen Dowd's 21-Year Long Campaign Against Hillary Clinton

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8. She's no Helen Thomas? ha ha!Very true, but very unfair

As you know, Helen and I were close, and I've never met Dowd that I know of (may have brushed up against her at a Gridiron or something, but never consciously had any contact with her).

Trying to compare Maureen Down with Helen is like comparing a sullen kid on a beach building a sand castle too close to the water with Gaudí. Not only do the kid's efforts get washed away into oblivion immediately (pissing him off, but with no other consequence) while Gaudí's work was unique and endures. Not only is Maureen Dowd not Helen Thomas, she never will be, and I think it is unlikely there will EVER be another Helen Thomas, just like there will probably never be another Rachel Maddow. Certain people are just unique, and that's that.

Helen was "after" no one except liars and warmongers. She had her share during her long stint at the White House, and gave them no quarter. Helen was driven by her convictions. Whether you agreed with them or not was another matter--Republicans considered her the devil incarnate. If Dowd has any true convictions, they are having a difficult time shining through her dislike of Hillary.

We get it, OK?. Maureen doesn't like Hillary. She doesn't have to hit us over the head with it every time she comes out with a column. The editorial page of the New York Times should not be a personal slam page from some rural high school rag.