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Dowd: Malignant Cheney is Lady Macbeth, OBL is Willie Horton
NY Times - Maureen Dowd/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/13/2006 7:39:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

September 13, 2006 - 10:21

Was Maureen Dowd kidding about having called Tim Russert to ask if VP Cheney washed his hands after his Meet the Press appearance this Sunday? By all indications she was not, making one fear the Times columnist is slipping ever deeper into Dowd Derangement Syndrome.

Dowd writes in her pay-to-read column of today, Vice Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work, "I called Tim Russert to ask if Dick Cheney had washed his hands after their interview on Sunday. Any sort of scrubbing, I wondered? Antiseptic wipe, Purell, quick shower on the way out?"

Russert reportedly replied in the negative.

Dowd was prompted to ask after reading a recent Times' health section article about a new study on the “Macbeth effect," which concluded that people who washed their hands after contemplating an unethical act were less troubled by their thoughts than those who didn’t.

Her hatred for the Vice President unfettered, Dowd:

- Claimed Mr. Cheney holds "malignant sway" over President Bush.

- Labelled him "The Lord of the Underworld."

- Compared him to the murderess Lady Macbeth.

- Accused him of "ruining America."

Dowd later claimed that "Bin Laden has become the Willie Horton of the midterms." Perhaps someone should remind Maureen that Horton really was a killer, and that when a previous Bush brought that home to the American people, he crushed his weak-on-crime rival.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dowdymoody; dukakis; georgehwbush; georgewbush; ladymacbeth; maligant; malignanttoo; maureendowd; pagingvanna; vpcheney; williehorton
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1 posted on 09/13/2006 7:39:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

NY Times/NewsBusters Dowd-derangement ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 09/13/2006 7:39:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

RULES!!!!!!


3 posted on 09/13/2006 7:42:20 AM PDT by hewhowaits
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And Dowd is PWN3D.

4 posted on 09/13/2006 7:42:27 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

thank you!!
hehe


5 posted on 09/13/2006 7:43:16 AM PDT by hewhowaits
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There's over the top and then there's over the edge.


6 posted on 09/13/2006 7:43:54 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: martin_fierro

A picture of her is required for every MoDowd thread.


7 posted on 09/13/2006 7:44:22 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Froufrou

And then there's unhinged. Good grief-- she's a lunatic!!


8 posted on 09/13/2006 7:45:54 AM PDT by jackv (just shakin' my head)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe the Veep should invite her on a hunting trip.


9 posted on 09/13/2006 7:46:23 AM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

this coming from a wom an who whines about not having a man - and who looks like she just got out of the locker room after just doing the football team?


10 posted on 09/13/2006 7:46:26 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

JMO, with Dowd on the pay part of the NYT, it's akin to keeping the crazy Aunt up in the attic.


11 posted on 09/13/2006 7:46:40 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh St. Willie the martyr. Conservative need to get over the mental obstacle that liberalism is morally superior and quick. This bimbo Dowd should be writing ad copy and nothing else.


12 posted on 09/13/2006 7:46:59 AM PDT by junta (It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! It's Political Correctness stupid!)
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To: mainepatsfan

I could be mistaken, but I think a picture of Catherine Zeta-Jones is required on any thread concerning Maureen Dowd.


14 posted on 09/13/2006 7:48:34 AM PDT by Sicon
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To: jackv

This is so inane as to cause me to ponder: does she really believe what she says or does she say it merely to sell herself? That would make her a kind of media whore, wouldn't it?


15 posted on 09/13/2006 7:49:13 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Sicon

If it's not a rule then the mods need to make it one.


16 posted on 09/13/2006 7:49:45 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: stm

Well the vp said Russert wasn't in season. Mo of course is never in season.


17 posted on 09/13/2006 7:50:23 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Froufrou

And then there's writing a column after drinking two fifths of Bushmills (MoDo's SOP).


18 posted on 09/13/2006 7:50:49 AM PDT by Cecily (`)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I hope you bathed after reading her column.


19 posted on 09/13/2006 7:50:57 AM PDT by jpf
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

Naaah, just conversant with l33t5p34k.

< |:)~


20 posted on 09/13/2006 7:52:17 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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