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Maureen Dowd: The Taming of the Shrews (Takes One to Know One MoDo..)
NY Times ^ | Sunday March 6, 2005 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 03/05/2005 4:24:15 PM PST by gopwinsin04

From pornography to 'Desperate Housewives' women being degraded has an entertainment value far greater than men being degraded.

People like Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton a lot more once they were 'broken,' ice queens melted into puddles of vulnerability.

Hillary was America's first lady, photographed smiling in her designer dresses as she oversaw table settings and placements for state dinners, even though she did not care about such domestic piffle and was instead really manuvering to take over huge chunks of domestic policy.

Martha was the first lady of gold leaf designer lifestyle nesting, even though her uber-nest was so scary that her husband flew the coop. Though she was the ulitmate professional homemaker and nurturer, she left her daughter off the list of the things she would miss in jail.

Obviously, many men are uncomfortable with successful women, so when these women are brushed back, alpha men can take comfort in knowing that the alphettes are not threateningly all powerful and that they had better soften those sharp edges.

And what about Condi, who's now being touted for the Republican ticket in 2008? Perhaps she does not need to play the victim to make people feel better about her power because she was never seen as pushing people around and bending them to her will.

She always seems subserviant to President Bush and VP Dick Cheney, a willing handmaiden for their bellicose bidding.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: definitionofdumb; dowd; dowdy; hildabeast; pickitpickitgood; randydowdy; rice2008; scabybaby; women; zetajones
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To: Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LaDivaLoca; Fawnn; bentfeather; darkwing104; dpa5923; MPJackal; ...
Hillary was America's first lady,

hillary was the dumbocRAT's first lady.

photographed smiling in her designer dresses

Please don't remind us about this MoDo

as she oversaw table settings and placements for state dinners

Which she and her crooked hubby - slick willie stole when they left the WH.

Sourpuss MODO ping. I don't know how MODO can be any more bitter about the right.

101 posted on 03/06/2005 5:11:28 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (TV News and the MSM - - - ROTFLMAO)
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To: Arrowhead1952; gopwinsin04
Is Maureen Dowd in therapy along with the
other loser 'RATS after election 2004???




Click here or on the pic for the article.


Hillary's Rating per the ACU


Senator Hillary Clinton (D)
New York
Democrat, Years of Service: 4

ACU Ratings for Senator Clinton:
Year 2004 0
Year 2003 10
Lifetime 9


102 posted on 03/06/2005 5:54:01 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Jim Noble

There was a automobile in that picture?


103 posted on 03/06/2005 6:49:04 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
she left her daughter off the list of the things she would miss in jail

Maybe because she was confident her daughter would visit?

104 posted on 03/06/2005 7:18:04 AM PST by exDemMom (Democrats must care deeply about the poor--they want so many of them!)
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To: LonePalm

Great parody!

I'll have to memorize it so that the next time that song gets stuck in my head, I can at least change the words.


105 posted on 03/06/2005 7:26:52 AM PST by exDemMom (Democrats must care deeply about the poor--they want so many of them!)
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To: exDemMom

Fair and balanced, that's MoDo's column! (sarcasm button off)


106 posted on 03/06/2005 7:30:15 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: DblDn11
I love the 'manage a google' of Dowd's columns with a guy getting a lobotomy!

That's how most of us feel after reading a Dowd column, rapidly losing our brain cells..

107 posted on 03/06/2005 7:34:06 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Jim Noble; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; Constitution Day
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Where can I get a car like this?
.
My favorite brunette
Is Hedy Lamarr.
Send her to me,
And keep the damn car.

-- Entry in jingle contest, author unknown.


108 posted on 03/06/2005 7:35:50 AM PST by dighton
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To: dighton; Jim Noble; general_re; BlueLancer; Constitution Day
Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor
109 posted on 03/06/2005 8:49:35 AM PST by aculeus (Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
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To: aculeus; dighton; Jim Noble; BlueLancer; Constitution Day

"That's Hedley..."

110 posted on 03/06/2005 9:17:26 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: digger48
Danke. Mine is to serve.


111 posted on 03/06/2005 11:48:56 AM PST by Viking2002 (Let's get the Insurrection started, already..............)
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To: gopwinsin04

That windbag! Who in the whole world takes this harridan seriesly!!! She is a hugh maroon! She is a total has-been who is just trying to prop up her plunging career. She whines about not taking women seriously, then snipes at her own "heroes", Hitlery and Maahtha! Who can even tell what point she is trying to make. As for her comments on Condi's "deportment" or fashion style--she will never get it! Condi's boots are made for walkin' and they'll walk all over Mo-tha-DODO!


112 posted on 03/06/2005 11:55:21 AM PST by luvie ("THE ROAD OF PROVIDENCE IS UNEVEN AND UNPREDICTABLE-YET WE KNOW...IT LEADS TO FREEDOM!"GWB 2-2-05)
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