Posted on 09/30/2006 6:00:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Maureen Dowd/NewsBusters down-the-well ping to Today show list.
MoDo sinks ever deeper in the slime the bottom feeders
plow.
Go to NewsBusters link for video of Ali G episode.
Mo Dowd... on how NOT to grow old, single and wrinkled... gracefully. One bitter, dried-up shrew.
Liberal logic. She is such a chimp.
Anyone actualy read Mo Dowd?
She writes for NY times?
The paper that is going down the tubes because no one reads it?
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.
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!
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.
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
No...only a picture (shudder) and half of the first sentence. Makes me happy, happy, happy!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
" Karl liked to show W. his battery-powered Redneck Horn,
Maureen should avoid writing about things that are battery powered...
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