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Dowd Loves Clinton's "endearing" Lies (Malkin catches Dowd in lies of her own)
Michelle Malkin ^ | 1/27/2006

Posted on 01/27/2006 8:57:00 AM PST by Uncledave

January 27, 2006 11:21 AM

Take an Antacid and watch the clip (.wmv file).

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Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more:

Olbermann: "Who has enabled this? I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout la-la-la-la-la presidency?"

Dowd: "No, they're two entirely different things because when Bill Clinton would deceive, he would throw in a semantic clue that let you know he was deceiving. 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman.' We knew what he meant by that. You know, 'I did not,' about dope, 'I didn't break the laws of this country.' So it was sort of poignant and endearing. He would let you know he was lying, and then the right wing would come down so hard on him and overpunish him. And in the case of Bush, he's just in a completely different reality. You know, they call us the 'reality-based community,' and they create their own reality, and so Bush is just in a bubble. And when you're in the bubble, you don't know you're in the bubble."

So, the "right wing would come down so hard on him and overpunish him," eh, Maureen? Sort of like this:

The President was asked before the Starr grand jury about Robert Bennett's assertion during the deposition for the Paula Jones case that "there is absolutely no sex of any kind" between the President and Monica Lewinsky.

Mr. Bennett was right, Mr. Clinton said, because he was using the present tense. "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is," the President explained helpfully.

The same footnote offers three other Clintonian gems before the grand jury: "I have not had sex with her as I defined it." "It depends on how you define alone." And, "There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were."

Mr. Clinton's double-talk had a contagious effect on Betty Currie. "I don't want the impression of sneaking," the secretary said, about Monica, "but it's just that I brought her in without anyone seeing her." And, "The President, for all intents and purposes, is never alone."

Mr. Clinton's greatest sin is not sex or dissembling about sex, as the heavy-breathing Kenneth Starr believes. His greatest sin is swindling and perverting the American language. He is like the cursed girl in the fairy tale: Every time he opens his mouth, a toad jumps out.

His problems stem from his instinct, when he runs into trouble, to shroud rather than illuminate.

He tries to make words subjective, insisting they mean only what he wants them to. Just as he made the Democratic Party about himself, and the Democratic Conventions about himself, and the Presidency about himself, he tries to make the language about himself.

But he can't. Laws are composed of words. The President is in charge of our laws. When he drains meaning from words, he jeopardizes his ability to govern. He has made Washington Orwellian. His corrupt language corrupts thought.

Oh, wait. That was Maureen Dowd's September 16, 1998 NYTimes column--one of 10 columns about Clinton's language-perverting lies that won her the Pulitzer Prize for her "fresh and insightful" commentary.

Hmmm. What does that make her commentary now?

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To: Uncledave

Wow.

How could anybody . . . I give up.


61 posted on 01/27/2006 10:25:36 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: camle

A BIG man (If ya know what mean!!)


62 posted on 01/27/2006 10:41:21 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
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To: RexBeach
Did her dog die?

Renminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw:

WIFE AND DOG MISSING: REWARD FOR DOG.

63 posted on 01/27/2006 10:41:26 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: nuke rocketeer

i think ANY man would suffice for her. any port in a storm ya know. and if there's a storm raging any where, it's her.


64 posted on 01/27/2006 10:43:41 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: randog
Uhhhhmmm....what? Only a liberal could say/understand/believe that.

When the Left discovered that no rational person would accept their nonsensical views if they were clearly stated, they had to invent the concept of "nuance".

65 posted on 01/27/2006 10:45:31 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: bcsco

Well, looks can be deceiving, but some day they will perfect brain transplants and perhaps such a beautiful body won't go to waste.


66 posted on 01/27/2006 10:55:29 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: KarinG1


To match the color of her lips
67 posted on 01/27/2006 10:56:20 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: Uncledave
Stinking lying deMARXocrats have just ruined a 57 year friendship. I hate them !!!!!!

This has nothing to do with this article, I just needed to vent.

68 posted on 01/27/2006 10:58:11 AM PST by Dustbunny (Can we build it - Yes we can - Bob the Builder - Can we win it - Yes we can - Geo. W. Bush)
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To: Mean Maryjean
I was in a room with a group of college-age women one day and they were going on and on, in loud voices, about how horrible men were, how all they were after was one thing, that they were dirty, stupid, lazy and cheap. And then they had the GALL to complain about how nobody would ever ask them out.

The poor guys in the room kept their eyes on their computer screens and sunk lower and lower into their seat. One of them glanced at me, I shook my head, rolled my eyes and we both just started laughing.

And THEY had the gall to look upset at me. They were all fine looking, but to be honest there wasn't any question about why they weren't dating.

I'm pretty sure those girls lived in the spirit of Maureen Dowd.
69 posted on 01/27/2006 11:17:58 AM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Uncledave

Oh god I think I'm going to puke!!! what an enabler this woman needs to go back rehab!


70 posted on 01/27/2006 11:32:24 AM PST by marta R
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To: pollyannaish

Women don't understand why they can bitch and moan with the girls and carry on as friends, but when they bitch and moan with the men the guys part company with them. I know I never asked a chick out a second time if all she could do was crab and complain.


71 posted on 01/27/2006 11:33:42 AM PST by oyez (OK now.. What did I do with those dilithium crystals?)
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To: Euro-American Scum

"Sex. Or more specifically, the lack thereof."



Did her batteries die?


72 posted on 01/27/2006 11:35:09 AM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: Euro-American Scum

Or did they corrode?


73 posted on 01/27/2006 11:36:02 AM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: oyez
Call me old fashioned, but I don't believe girls should even bitch and moan with the girls. It causes exactly what you have described. It closes people down.

Complaining to your girlfriends just reinforces your own negative perceptions and preconceived notions about men rather than allow you to see them for the individuals they are.

A girl can become a man hater by talking herself into it. Bad relationships with men become a self-fulfilling prophecy because you go in thinking everything is because "men are jerks" and you no longer look for your own culpability.

The same goes for guys. Complain that women this and women that...and you are never going to see the one that is right for you because she is wearing a stereotype she doesn't deserve.

And this goes DOUBLY for married people.
74 posted on 01/27/2006 12:08:43 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: cgk

Heading for the exit as we speak.


75 posted on 01/27/2006 3:09:04 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: Euro-American Scum

BTTT


76 posted on 01/27/2006 7:23:09 PM PST by doctora
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To: boatbums
It's called "quibbling" ( as in, 'to quibble'). Not that far from telling a lie, in fact it was the same as telling a lie, only with the hope that somehow you could weasel out of it if you were good enough at it.

Cut right to the bone.

Nice.

77 posted on 01/27/2006 7:32:06 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Uncledave

Sounds to me like she has to hots for the ex-pres and is blind to how much damage he did to the Presidency as his wifey.


78 posted on 01/27/2006 7:33:59 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Sounds to me like she has to hots for the ex-pres and is blind to how much damage he did to the Presidency as his wifey.

Dreams of being ravaged by Bubba. Probably envies Juanita Broderick, come to think of it.

79 posted on 01/27/2006 11:25:52 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; Timesink; VPMWife78; Gracey; Alamo-Girl; RottiBiz; FoxGirl; Mr. Bob; xflisa; ...
FoxFan ping! (Michelle Malkin, Fox News contributor)

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

80 posted on 01/27/2006 11:31:39 PM PST by nutmeg (NEVER trust democRATs with our national security)
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