You Gotta Love Maureen Dowd

Guess who wants us to vote for Obama. (0.00 / 0)

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 09:37:55 AM CST

even a stopped clock... (0.00 / 0)

... is right twice a day.

Don't kid yourself that Dowd's pathology has vanished just because she's bashing someone else's candidate. She'll get back to yours soon enough.

I'm with Somerby about Dowd. The woman is completely around the bend.

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by: michael57 @ Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 19:21:07 PM CST

you are right (4.00 / 1)

I hated MoDo when she treated Bill this way before during and after impeachment, but again,
he did what he did. I was a Clinton apologist at the time, who could not see the harm they did to the Progressive agenda.Dowd however is consistent in her criticism, now of the Red Phone/3am/scorched earth ad... and it's use of fear. Propagandists work on the gut level, manipulating greed and fear. For most of my life that has been the province of Repuglicans. I can't go back to before So.Carolina, and yet the negative shit continues to flow. Her sarcasm helps me cope with the idea, that whatever it takes to get our party and,our country righted, it doesn't start with Hillary, Bill, their friends and associates.  

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 20:45:27 PM CST

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just saw your reply (0.00 / 0)

Look, I know that Dowd is a so-called liberal, but she is a self-hating liberal, isn't she? She's so impressed by all those big Republican brutes. Even when she points out their absurdities, you can tell that she's "glad to be a woman in a man's world." She is sick, sick, sick, and what's more, she hates any woman who could legitimately be called more successful than Maureen Dowd, and that, rather than any disagreements of substance or style, is what is behind her treatment of Hillary.

There are valid criticisms of Hillary--most recently, that she practically endorsed McCain over Obama, what an idiotic, treacherous thing to do--but please do not quote Maureen Dowd to me when you want to criticize any Democrat, including the Clintons.

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by: michael57 @ Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 14:43:11 PM CST

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gotcha n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: JonnyBBad @ Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 17:10:52 PM CST

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How about Larry David (0.00 / 0)

shiv jar to the bills

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
On the Red Phone

By Larry David
Huffington Post
March 6, 2008 | 09:00 PM (EST)

Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?"

How is it that she became the one who's perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama? He, with the ice in his veins, who doesn't panic when he's losing or get too giddy when he's winning, who's as comfortable in his own skin as she's uncomfortable in hers. There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she'd actually kill herself if she lost. Every day, she reminds me more and more of Adele H., who also had an obsession that drove her insane.

A few weeks ago, I started to feel sorry for her. Oh Christ, let her win already...Who cares...It's not worth it. There's not that much difference between them. She can have it. Anything to avoid watching her descend into madness. So I switched. I started rooting for her. It wasn't that hard. Compromise comes easy to me. I was on board.

And then I saw the ad.

I watched, transfixed, as she took the 3 a.m. call...and I was afraid...very afraid. Suddenly, I realized the last thing this country needs is that woman anywhere near a phone. I don't care if it's 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don't want her talking to Putin, I don't want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don't want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere -- somewhere far away, where there are...no phones.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 23:40:07 PM CST

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see, now that's comedy! (4.00 / 1)

And very "it's funny because it's true," though I think that if Kathy weren't on her break, she might take exception to the Adele H. reference...!

We just got HBO for a month to see if it's worth the cost (short answer: no), but I have been very glad to take the opportunity to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm, finally.

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by: michael57 @ Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:34:18 AM CDT

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haha (0.00 / 0)

i love larry david.

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by: sdoyle @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 12:49:45 PM CDT

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Adele H. (0.00 / 0)

by the way, 'unrequited love's a bore, and I have it pretty bad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The Story of Adele H. (also L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is a 1975 English/French film which tells the story of the real-life Adèle Hugo, the daughter of writer Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a naval officer led to her downfall. The film is based on her diaries. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson and Sylvia Marriott.

The film tells the story of Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of Victor Hugo, who is devastated by the accidental death of her elder sister Léopoldine Hugo. Hugo is living in exile on the island of Guernsey where Adele meets and is seized by an obsessive love for a British officer, Lieutenant Pinson. She follows him to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Barbados, West Indies and gradually degenerates as she realizes her love is unrequited. She descends into despair and madness. She dies in Paris in 1915, in her 85th year, in the asylum to which her father had committed her.

About the film, Truffaut wrote:

   "In writing the script of 'L'Enfant sauvage' based on the memoirs of Dr Jean Itard, we discovered, Jean Gruault and myself, the enormous pleasure of writing historical fiction based on real events, without inventing anything and without altering documented facts. If it is difficult to construct an unanimistic intrigue involving a dozen characters whose paths entwine, it is almost as difficult to write an animistic film focusing on a single person. I believe that it was this solitary aspect which attracted me most to this project; having produced love stories involving two and three people, I wanted to attempt to create a passionate experience involving a character where the passion was one-way only."

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:44:41 AM CDT

i confess (0.00 / 0)

I thought she wrote a good column about Obama's speech.

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by: michael57 @ Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 14:06:39 PM CDT

3 Hail Barrys (0.00 / 0)

*Barack was called Barry in College

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 21:40:37 PM CDT

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