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Dowd Throws Analogy Down The Well
NY Times-Maureen Dowd/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/30/2006 6:00:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

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1 posted on 09/30/2006 6:00:52 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Maureen Dowd/NewsBusters down-the-well ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 09/30/2006 6:01:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

MoDo sinks ever deeper in the slime the bottom feeders
plow.


3 posted on 09/30/2006 6:04:32 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Go to NewsBusters link for video of Ali G episode.


4 posted on 09/30/2006 6:06:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: tet68

Mo Dowd... on how NOT to grow old, single and wrinkled... gracefully. One bitter, dried-up shrew.


5 posted on 09/30/2006 6:15:15 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberal logic. She is such a chimp.


6 posted on 09/30/2006 6:15:48 AM PDT by sig226 (There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

http://newsbusters.org/


7 posted on 09/30/2006 6:20:47 AM PDT by JimVT (Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper's tune)
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Anyone actualy read Mo Dowd?

She writes for NY times?

The paper that is going down the tubes because no one reads it?


8 posted on 09/30/2006 6:33:52 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One of the best things the Times has done is to make Dowd's column available only for paid subscribers. I am much less bothered by her columns, fewer people read them, and she has been marginalized.


9 posted on 09/30/2006 6:55:32 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

I'm surprised Times heavyweights such as Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman haven't successfully rebelled against this firewalling of their columns, which as you indicate must significantly diminish their influence.

It really went against my grain to send my money to the Times and subscribe, but as someone who tracks liberal media bias, and all joking aside, I considered it was my duty - and a good investment. It certainly is a treasure trove of MSM-think over there. Rarely a day goes by that it doesn't provide some jewel for me to write about!


10 posted on 09/30/2006 7:01:35 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The only problem about writing about it is that most of us now don't really know what you're talking about, as we don't read it!

I will, however, take your word for it. It is much easier on my nerves to read your paraphrasing of her column than to read her actual words. And every time you tell us about what she wrote, it reminds me that she and those others are in their little enclave and aren't read as much anymore, which makes me very happy.

11 posted on 09/30/2006 7:13:32 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

If you click on the link to her column, does it at least give non-subscribers a synopsis?

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30dowd.html


12 posted on 09/30/2006 7:20:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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No...only a picture (shudder) and half of the first sentence. Makes me happy, happy, happy!


13 posted on 09/30/2006 7:39:44 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

Thanks for letting me know. When Slate.com went to a subscription mode some years ago, I wrote then-editor Michael Kinsley to predict it wouldn't last, for the same audience-killing reasons in play for the Times columnists. It didn't.


14 posted on 09/30/2006 7:42:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It really went against my grain to send my money to the Times and subscribe, but as someone who tracks liberal media bias, and all joking aside, I considered it was my duty - and a good investment

I for one wish to thank you for your service. Because you do this, putting your mental health in harm's way, I don't have to! Thanks again and stay safe.

15 posted on 09/30/2006 7:45:03 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Some would say my mental health was already long gone, but in any case I sincerely appreciate the encouragement. Writing about MoDo & Co. is truly my - twisted - pleasure.


16 posted on 09/30/2006 7:52:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gee, Mo, that was really funny. Ha, ha. You have never written anything funnier. You forgot to get Barney, the First Dog into that gut-wrenching humor piece. How about this? Barney is watching Borat on TV. Borat says, "I don't like Jews." Then Barney says, "I don't like the President." Ha, ha! Isn't that funny, Mo? Can I help you write more humor. Oh, boy! We'll have a barrel of laughs. Maybe we could make a song, "Throw the President down the well". Oh, that is hilarious and really creative.


17 posted on 09/30/2006 7:57:52 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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Ali G is without a doubt the funniest and most innovative comic i have ever seen, I LOVE EVERYTHING HE DOES!
i'm not normally such a fan, but that guy is pure gold!


18 posted on 09/30/2006 8:03:56 AM PDT by Narcoleptic (chuckle chuckle chuckle)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Image hosted by Photobucket.comgood stuff from a guy that lives in the Peoples DemocRATic Republic of Ithaca EVIL
19 posted on 09/30/2006 8:05:24 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

" Karl liked to show W. his battery-powered “Redneck Horn,”

Maureen should avoid writing about things that are battery powered...


20 posted on 09/30/2006 8:16:42 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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