Out of Africa (July, 2004: Maureen Dowd rips John Kerry's wife)

[antiimperialist]

Here is a July 2004 piece, where Maureen Dowd had this to say about Teresa Heinz Kerry:

As Republicans on the East Coast fret about Dick Cheney acting bonkers, Democrats on the West Coast fret about Teresa Heinz Kerry acting flaky.

Just as you never know what the Strangelovian Mr. Cheney will blurt out, you never know what the lovely but strange Mrs. Kerry will blurt out.

Even in a place where everyone is constantly reinventing, people are a little stunned at the way Teresa casts herself as a ''third worlder'' and ''daughter of Africa,'' a wretched-refuse-of-your-teeming-shore sort of immigrant rather than a ''White Mischief'' émigré, the daughter of a prosperous Portuguese doctor in colonial Mozambique who met John Heinz when they were studying in Switzerland. When Mrs. Kerry presents herself as an African-American or says, ''I'm an immigrant, too,'' and when her son Chris Heinz says he's looking forward to the day when there is a ''first-generation American'' in the White House, it doesn't always strike the empathetic chord with Hispanic and black audiences that the campaign hopes for.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4DD123AF93BA25754C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[Missy M]

1. The only female Dowd is impressed with....

is Maureen Dowd. She gets pretty boring after awhile.

[stillcool]

2. and this article is pertinent how?

did I miss something..?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: July 18, 2004

[jemsan]

3. Who cares what Maureen Dowd says or thinks???

[antiimperialist]

4. Well, her column appears in 100 newspapers with a total circulation of 9 million

Many are reading her, and she needs to be exposed.

[stillcool]

5. especially in 2004?

unless somebody still has a hard-on for Kerry and lives in Massachusetts...which I really hope is not the case.

[antiimperialist]

6. This is a reminder due to her column yesterday ripping Edwards and Obama's wife

That's why. It shows how it was not a coincidence and makes a pattern visible. She hates Democratic women.

[Doctor_J]

7. Ah, MoDo, the Joan Rivers of the DC chattering class

I guess fluff is enough to pay the bills, even at the Paper Of Record

[cyr330]

8. What a bag of hot air

Maureen Dowd is neither funny nor entertaining. She's obsessed with the sound of her own voice, and she's quite a bore.