MO DO: Finally gets it right.

[dand]

W.'s old pal and running partner, Lee Atwater, set up the Bush modus operandi: lay in the weeds while craftily planting plausibly deniable surrogates to slice up your rival. Great reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/opinion/22dowd.html

[Skarbrowe]

1. Lee Atwater's deathbed apology.

In 1991 Lee Atwater was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He found Jesus and supposedly tried to make amends for the lives he destroyed with his "dirty tricks" politics. I've known about this for years and I googled the above from a Campus site. I do believe that he apologized to Dukakis. He was still a snake, but it was an obvious statement to what the Bush ( all of them ) and their people are like. No one listened when I told them about this in 2000. George W. Bush was Lee Atwater's "follower" or shadow man. I can't think of the term right now. It means that Dubya was learning the dirty trick politics from Lee Atwater and another star student was Karl Rove.

Unfortunetaly, there are too many ignorant people in this country. Combine them with the Republican control of the voting machines and I'm still not convinced Kerry has a chance. I'll do a major happy dance if I'm wrong.

On edit THANKS for the Maureen Dowd article. She's right on. I think she's a strange woman, but I like her.

Skarbrowe

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I think the word you're looking for

is "protege".

[Skarbrowe]

7. Protege would be correct but he was called a

"minder". Hmmm, odd word.

http://www.fact-index.com/l/le/lee_atwater.html

Skarbrowe

[CanIgonow]

14. It is amazing that a guy who cannot do anything right,from reading

to thinking to talking, excels when it comes to doing things that are downright devious.I would call it a congenital disease in the Bush family knowing how the elder Bush also thrived with the Lee Atwater inspired Willie Horton ads, when he could only talk about the "vision thing".

[dand]

15. Great analysis,

Welcome to DU Canigonow:bounce: :toast:

[UpInArms]

3. Mo Do may have "gotten it right" but she

lacked conviction and direction.

I still don't think she "gets it".

[thebigidea]

4. for Dowd, none of this stuff matters

its just a "Shakespearian" soap opera she can write shallow pieces about, as if thousands of people weren't being murdered over the stuff she writes about.

I'm sure she'd rather Bush win, because he'd be more "interesting" to cover from her perspective. Its just grist for the gossipy mill.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Please God, Outsource Whoreen!

Send her job to India and let her beg for a Wal Mart Greeter job just like the rest of us!

[thebigidea]

6. not to mention Tom Friedman, David Brooks, and William Safire

Dowd would be great writing snide movie & teevee reviews...

[Skarbrowe]

8. Maybe I haven't read enough of her articles

but the ones I have read for a couple years now never led me to believe she was a shill for Bush. I could be confusing her with someone else or not paid enough attention to what she was saying. I've seen her several times on talk shows recently hawking her book "Bushworld"?. She is VERY strange. I'm sure most journalists, columnists, talk show hosts, want juicy stuff to write about and keep them in the public eye. Sad really, because I think so many of them are intelligent and gifted writers. Everyone has their own agenda, I suppose.


Skarbrowe

[UpInArms]

9. she's a fluff and stuff

word manipulator.

She lacks conviction and passion and reality.

She ponders on inscrutable words and thinks that she belongs in the "intelligencia".

She would rather shift the "focus" to the color of attire and discard reality.

Mostly, she makes me :puke:

[ixion]

10. yep, that nails it UIA

nice summary. ;-)

[kaitykaity]

11. And she's mad at Teresa because

Teresa is flawless (whatever work Teresa 'may' have had done,
it' doesn't look like she has had anything done).

Whoreen OTOH on MTP a while back was nipped and tucked
and botoxed and boob-jobbed to death. It was really
pathetic to see a 53-year-old woman try to look 30.

[CanIgonow]

13. You have hit the nail on the head.Maureen Dowd is essentially

a narcissistic wordsmith.She lacks passion for anything that does not involve her in some way.The deaths of thousands of people are irrelevant to the Maureen Dowds of the world so long as her puff pieces in the NYT gain the attention of the right in-crowd.People like her,with their tenuous contact with reality, are the ones that made the ascension of a know-nothing like Bush possible.

[Catfight]

12. I really like Dowd and I looked forward to the days she was in the Times,

however, a few of her pieces really turned me off to her. I despised her piece on either Dean or Kerry wearing a sweater to get more votes in the Primary I was furious. I thought, how could a gifted writer write such drivel nonsense and not write about how RIDICULOUS Bush looked in his Greatest American Hero flight suit. Then she wrote about John Kerry's haircuts and I just was turned off by her flaky flip-flopping. If she doesn't like Kerry, then that's fine, but don't like him for his politics, not his person. I just thought she partook of the character assassination that tends to come from Republicans dressed in sheep clothing.
Today's article was decent, but next weeks will be Kerry castigating all over again. I think she's just a fence sitter, and honestly, people who are sitting on the fence today are people who are too lazy to look up the truth. If you know the truth about Bush, this wouldn't even be a contest, people would be watching the Bush-gate trials every day and look forward to putting him and his cronies AWAY.

I enjoy her affinity for words, however I've found some of her commentary just plain irresponsible.