[Pokey78]

Catherine Zeta-Jones
2003 Academy Award Winner
Best Supporting Actress

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From Oxblog:

IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD

1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.

2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.

3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.

4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.

5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.

6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.

7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.

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Explanation of the Dowd/Douglas connection: by Miss Marple- 2/11/03

Ms. Dowd was escorted around New York and DC for many months by one Michael Douglas of Hollywood fame and fortune. She got to go to all the best parties, was photographed for the tabloids, and was picking out a gown to wear at the Oscars. Of course, Michael had become interested in her during Clinton's impeachment, when she had written some very anti-Clinton columns. After a few weeks of the Michael treatment, she began to write anti-Starr, ant-Newt columns, ignoring Clinton.

Then Clinton was acquitted by the Senate. In an amazing coincidence, Michael Douglas dropped Ms. Dowd like a hot potato, and instead picked up a hot tomato, Catherin Zeta-Jones, who subsequently bore him a son and they were married.

Ms. Dowd cannot get over her tragic loss. Her columns are increasingly anti-Bush, in the hope of impressing her lost love, Michael.

In addition, we think she has a secret crush on the President and is trying to get him to pay attention to her. Ha!

[Restorer]

It's about whether America will lead by fear, aggression and force of arms or by diplomacy, moderation and example.

Oddly enough, people tend to pay a lot more attention to your diplomatic initiatives when ignoring them results an a bunker-buster landing on their head.

[Rain-maker]

Dowd is just plain whacko imo. All emotionally based garbage talk with nary a whisper of logic to any of her ranting.

She would be better of writing about estrogen replacement for schizophrenics.

[ez]

Newt, amateur historian,

Actually, as I understand it, Newt is a former History Professor, which as far as I know, makes him more of a historian than any of the other people mentioned on Mo's list.

[dighton]

Is Howell Raines capable of embarrassment? Dowd's continuing employment suggests not.

[SamAdams76]

cat·ty
adj. cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est

1. Subtly cruel or malicious; spiteful: a catty remark.
2. Catlike; stealthy.

[jackbill]

Have you ever heard this bitch speak? Her voice is worse than fingernails on a blackboard. Several years ago she was the emcee for some sort of award ceremony, the only public appearance that I'm aware of her making. It was pathetic.

[SteveH]

Washington has a history of nasty rivalries, with competing camps. There were Aaron Burr people and Alexander Hamilton people; Lincoln people and McClellan people; Bobby people and Lyndon people.

Nastiness? In Washington, DC?

Well then, how in the name of Beezlebubba666 did the Clintons not make this list?

On second thought, maybe hold off asking that question of this particular kneepad columnist. We know she believes it is all ultimately about sex anyway...

[woofie]

This clash is epochal because it's beyond ego. It's about whether America will lead by fear, aggression and force of arms or by diplomacy, moderation and example.

How about we lead by fear, agression,force of arms and diplomacy...moderately of course....it will set a good example

[Howlin]

I take it Mo saw the nekkid pictures of Zeta-Jones............LOL.

[johniegrad]

Nerviness, absolutism and smiting enemies are seductive. Nuance and ambivalence aren't.

The "I'm smarter than you" approach to public criticism of the administration is causing headaches to those who constantly bang their head over and over again against the same brick wall of American success. The complete inability to recognize the stupidity of this stance and to fail to learn from it is the hallmark of a disordered personality.

Her shtick is really getting stale. She reminds me of a female Garrison Keeler with PMS.

[Gorzaloon]

W.'s gut leans toward the macho Cheney-Rummy idea that America is not bound by history, that the U.S. can help Israel and reshape the Arab world and the rest of the world and not care who is run over, or worry about what will happen if we don't get cooperation on terrorism, proliferation, AIDS, trading, or if people everywhere get up in the morning thinking about how to get back at us.

Great Idea, Dowd.

Now Die.

[mountaineer]

Even the time on the chart was "1700," for 5 p.m. Diplomacy in Washington now runs on military time.

So do the trains in Europe. What's her (pathetic, whining) point?

[Petronski]

Big Mo's vitriol aside, if it's Defense v. State inside the Bush Administration, I'm with Defense.

You wanna piece of this?

That's a great slogan for the Pentagon. It's interesting that the lefties consider it some kind of slur.

[SteveH]

OK, I've read the column several times and can boil it down to two or three sentences:

Rummy dearest, I'm more than available any time for your public or private party pleasure. My email is liberties@nytimes.com. Hurry up you right wing hunk!

"Rummy" would do well to run fast in the opposite direction whenever this psycho appears on the horizon...

[Congressman Billybob]

Dowd is a snotty b*tch who writes like and for the same people she shares penthouse cocktail parties with. In short, she's irrelevant, only she doesn't know it, yet.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI and FR, "All-American Arrogance"

Latest book(let), "to Restore Trust in America."

[dyed_in_the_wool]

It's about whether America will lead by fear, aggression and force of arms or by diplomacy, moderation and example.

Whatever works, Mo. Whatever works.

[John Lenin]

What she is really saying is unlike Clinton, W doesn't go kissing up to dicators and terrorists and giving them the means
to hit wipe Los Angeles off the map with a nuke attack.

[Jorge]

Dowd likes to put flippant childish face on her bitter hatred of Bush. It's beyond me how anybody can take what she writes seriously. Or how it gets published in any major newspaper.

[ontos-on]

Dowd's most favorite analysis is that it [whatever] is really just a bunch of boys acting as boys. Her blind feminist triumphalism is the main actuator of her mind. ust boys is her favorite refrain. After that, analysis stops and sh ejust repeats the best of her gang of fem friends and what they have to say.

[martin_fierro]

Someone should tell MoDo the Dodo she should...

...get more.