CLARK HOYT GETS RESULTS! Three days after Clark Hoyt’s piece, Dowd kisses Democrat keister

[liberalfella]

June 25
Daily Howler

It’s something we learned a long time ago about your celebrity press corps.

You can correct their facts as much as you like. You can show them that their “quotations” are wrong—that their paraphrases are deeply unfair. You can point to their broken logic. You can note the contradictory things they wrote about X, Y or Z in the past.

None of this will affect their work. To an astounding degree, they simply don’t care about what’s accurate, logical, fair. They only care when they get corrected in a venue which threatens their career status or social standing. When that happens, they get embarrassed—and they feel threatened. And then, their conduct will change.

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This morning, Maureen Dowd stands reinvented. Suddenly, she presents as a heartfelt defender of Dems. Suddenly, she defends Dems against the types of attacks she herself has launched for a decade. Go ahead! Enjoy a loud, hearty laugh! Try to believe that Maureen Dowd actually sat and typed this work, in which she defends Barack Obama against Karl Rove’s absurd depiction:


DOWD (6/25/08): Rove is trying to spin his myths, as he used to do with such devastating effect, but it won't work this time. The absurd spectacle of rich white conservatives trying to paint Obama as a watercress sandwich with the crust cut off seems ugly and fake.

Obama can be aloof and dismissive at times, and he's certainly self-regarding, carrying the aura of the Ivy faculty club. But isn't that better than the aura of the country clubs that tried to keep out blacks? It's ironic, and maybe inevitable, that the first African-American nominee comes across as a prince of privilege. He is, as Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic wrote, not the seed but the flower of the civil rights movement.

Unlike W., Obama doesn't have a chip on his shoulder and he doesn't make a lot of snarky remarks. He tries to stay on a positive keel and see things from the other person's point of view.

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Conservatives love playing this little game, acting as if the ''elite'' Democratic candidates are not in touch with people like themselves, even though the guys doing the attacking—like Rove, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Hannity—are wealthy and cosseted.


Oh. Our. God. Conservatives love playing this little game? So did Dowd—until Sunday. Today, Dowd insists that Barack Obama is no watercress sandwich, with or without the crust removed. Gone is all that previous language, in which Obama was, as Hoyt noted, the girlie “Obambi.” In which he was “a diffident debutante.” In which he was a “Hollywood starlet.” Today, Dowd won’t even call him “Barry”—and, lacking all memory, self-reflection and shame, she even defends him as someone who “tries to see things from the other person’s point of view.”

Go ahead! Just laugh out loud! But then, please accept our basic point: Clark Hoyt gets results!

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[BrklynLib at work]

1. She is a vacuous twit.

[Schema Thing]

3. i for a day?

[BrklynLib at work]

4. hahahahaahahahahahah EX-cellent!

:rofl: :applause: :evilgrin:

[Papa Boule]

2. That's what you call a pivot n/t