Dowd Reinforces Rush on Hillary Looks

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Talk about the dog that didn't bark . . .

As soon as I realized that Maureen Dowd's column of today, "Rush to Judgment" was indeed about Rush Limbaugh's recent observations about Hillary's looks, I braced myself for the backlash.

Surely Dowd would seek to unload on Rush for having said, in commenting on an unflattering photo of Hillary [displayed here] that turned up on Drudge, "will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?” Added Rush “men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it’s not that way for women, and they will tell you.” And Hillary “is not going to want to look like she’s getting older, because it will impact poll numbers, it will impact perceptions [so] there will have to be steps taken to avoid the appearance of aging.” Story Continues Below Ad ↓

And so I continued to read, and wait, and wait -- for the comeback that never came. To the contrary, Dowd seconded Rush's read, added some analysis of her own of Hillary's looks . . . and ended with a hit on Hillary rougher than anything Rush had said.

Excerpts [emphasis added]:

[EDINVA]

“...at this stage of her career..”

Really, did any of us, even one, give a rat’s bottom what Jean Kirkpatrick looked like? Hell, no. She was a woman of substance (whose views corresponded rather nicely with our own). Any of us would have voted for Kirkparick in the proverbial New York Minute.

Hillary is not a woman of substance, (not to mention her views being quite the opposite of ours) and that’s the bottom line. Her IMAGE that’s being sold includes their trying to cling to ‘92 when the Clintons were the young couple seeking the White House. The intervening years have not been kind (other than to the Clintons’ bankroll).

Wasn’t it Churchill who said we are responsible for our looks after 40?

[reagan_fanatic]

On another thread several of us were castigated for departing from the topic even though it was indirectly related and one person was expelled from FR

That sounds a bit draconian. I mean, who can argue with pics of KZJ on any thread?

[Mr. Mojo]

Clinton pollsters devised strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal. Fifteen years later, her campaign is devising strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal.

There's nothing anyone can do to make that cold, calculating, bitter battle-ax even the slightest bit warm and maternal. The more she's seen/heard, the more she's despised. Lipstick on that pig just emphasizes the fact that she's swine.

[Iron Munro]

Hillary In Her Own Words:

"She’s a short, Irish b*tch.”

Regarding The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
(Newsmax.com quoting The New York Post, 07/25/00).

Link to this and other sizzling Hillary quotes:

http://tammybruce.com/2007/02/hillary_in_her_own.php

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the sourcing...nice job.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

After seeing all those shows about Mega Disasters, the apocalyptic events don't seem to far fetched after to the secular world, however, us saints knew it all along.
Correct me if I am wrong, but, isn't there a reference in the book of Revelation that there is going to be a star ( Meteorites, asteroids & comets ) that will hit the earth ? and after seeing these shows, it's not to far fetched that it will happen.
Could it be ? that in the tribulation that these things will happen ?
I know, I know, this thread is about Miss Dowd ... sorry to get off subject, but that one comment about " The moon will turn red " and " the water's will boil " got me thinking, and I just watched that show last night.

[PGalt]

Thanks. :)