Posted on 09/17/2012 2:24:25 PM PDT by NYer
Via Mediaite:
Long-time New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd is facing a significant backlash over her latest column in which she uses a number of medieval, anti-Semitic stereotypes to describe neoconservatives and, specifically, Dan Senor, a close advisor to Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.
In Dowd’s latest column, Neocons Slither Back, she describes Ryan’s senior advisor as snake-like. Dowd also describes Senor as the “puppet master” behind Ryan’s supposed lurch towards a neoconservative foreign policy critique of President Barack Obama. This, too, is a trope used for centuries to villainize Jews.
Commentary Magazine’s Jonathan Tobin savaged Dowd’s column as “creepy” and says that this episode should not be swept under the rug:
“Dowd’s column marks yet another step down into the pit of hate-mongering that has become all too common at the Times. This is a tipping point that should alarm even the most stalwart liberal Jewish supporters of the president.”
Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, responded immediately to the slurs printed in the Times on the eve of the Jewish new year holiday. In Happy New Year, Puppet Masters, Goldberg goes after Dowd for her liberal use of offensive slurs to attack Ryan.
“Maureen may not know this, but she is peddling an old stereotype, that gentile leaders are dolts unable to resist the machinations and manipulations of clever and snake-like Jews,” Goldberg wrote.
Unbelievably, the Obama campaign’s “Truth Team” is pushing her column:
Neocons = DA JOOOOOOOSSSS!!!
"Set 'em up again, Joe..."
She has huge feet.
That...is a cool gif.
I’d hit it.
With a rolled-up newspaper.
I actually took the time to read her babble.... and her histrionics are delusional....
She keep painting Bush as a weak minded man...
Once again she proves liberalism is a mental disorder...
“No husband, no children. A bitter old woman lashing out at all around her.”
Another Helen Thomas in the making — watch out!!
She sits alone.
It's a shame the ability to turn a phrase is wasted by Ms Dowd. She's actually a talented wordsmith.
In any case, in her line above about the Bush mistake of ridding the region of the power group of Saddam-era Iraq, she contradicts the Obama administration's decision to rid the region of Mubarak and Ghaddaffi and their legions.
So, Ms Dowd, are you for leaving the power groups in place or are you against it? For it in Iraq, a mistake by Bush, but against it in Eqypt/Libya, because we can't acknowledge a mistake by Obama?
If Obama was right then Bush was right. If Bush wrong then Obama wrong.
This is the point at which sophists get down in the weeds and attempt to show through minutia that they really can have it both ways.
I would challenge her to make a LONG list of Obama’s experience in foreign policy before 2007.
It wouldn’t take a very big piece of paper.
I’d hit it.
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