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Rogue American Woman (Dowd reads Sarah Palin's book)
New York Times ^ | 11/17/09 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 12/08/2009 6:35:50 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010

Of course, the subtitle of Sarah Palin’s book is “An American Life.”

Because she is the lovely avatar of real Americans — ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing, common-sense, good, ordinary, real Americans.

If you are not living an American life, you are, to use a Palin coinage, living “bass-ackwards.”(snip)

I approached reading her book with trepidation, worried I might learn that I am not a real American, dang it, just another dreaded, jaded “enlightened elite.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: dowager; dowd; palin; sarahpalin; yuk
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To: usslsm51
"Do they (the Slimes) have anything better in their stable?"

I think they no longer have the money to hire star journalists with superior thought processes, investigative energy, excellent writing skills, and non-knee jerk originality.

It's for sure that a writer possessing such skills along with some modicum of integrity will NOT be in the hire of the NY Times and its addled, commie, punk owner, Little Kim Pinch Sulzberger.

Leni

61 posted on 12/08/2009 8:26:44 AM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: CedarDave

I know, I can’t believe it. The pigs are lining up for takeoff.


62 posted on 12/08/2009 8:43:40 AM PST by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: Dawgreg
Dowd needs a man to get her out of that perpetual snit she’s in but WHO would step up and take care of that problem...
What Maureen needs is a good (macho) Allah-fearing, devout Saudi husband to take her home to Saudia Arabia.
63 posted on 12/08/2009 8:56:20 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010
Wow, that was some uber-weird Dowd, and she's always weird.

Basically, she wanted us to know that she's sorta like Palin too.

A sweaters-in-August, bitter neighborhood cat lady trying to tell us she's just like the smart hottie down the street.

64 posted on 12/08/2009 9:02:32 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

Not sure how Catherine Zeta Jones got into the mix, but thanks!


65 posted on 12/08/2009 9:23:35 AM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: Ro_Thunder
Free Republic has a rule - if you post a Maureen Dowd story, you must also posts pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones.

(Dowd used to date actor Michael Douglas. Then he dumped her and married CZJ, and they've lived happily ever after.)

66 posted on 12/08/2009 9:33:27 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: dead
SARAH vs. MAUREEN is like....

VS.

67 posted on 12/08/2009 9:37:45 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: sticker

You are a sick puppy!


68 posted on 12/08/2009 10:39:11 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: MrB

‘She has an inkling, at least, that Piper is going to be the next Piper “Quincy” Palin.”

She’ll be in the running. I am grooming a ten year old to be her National Campaign Manager.


69 posted on 12/08/2009 10:44:11 AM PST by texmexis best
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To: VRWCmember

That is VERY sick puppy, don’t believe me ask my wife :)


70 posted on 12/08/2009 11:29:19 AM PST by sticker
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To: Williams
Dowd read Palin’s book and wrote a column about - herself. Isn’t that more than a bit strange?

It certainly is. Apparently the disdain flyover country is showing for the entrenched elite has percolated all the way up to their brains. It's about time. When they get to "why do they hate us?" the whole thing will have come full circle.

But certain denizens of the Left appear at last to be noticing a disturbing level of tribal hatred. Stanley Fish wrote a fascinating piece on it in yesterday's NY Times -

"I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” She looked at me as if I had requested a copy of “Mein Kampf” signed in blood by the author, and directed me to the nearest Barnes and Noble, where, presumably, readers of dubious taste and sensibility could find what they wanted."

Now that is an odd reaction from a presumably literate young woman. It isn't in the least unusual in certain circles, but it also isn't entirely explicable. They don't even know her, but they know they hate her because they've been told they ought to. Ask them why and you generally are answered by one of the canned accusations and a distinct air of fear that they'll be revealed as spouting a comfortable ignorance. Why else would any thinking person say, "You shouldn't read that" about anything, much less a book as thunderously successful as this one?

It is perhaps this underlying uncertainty that is prodding Mo Dowd along a little here. It'll pass.

71 posted on 12/08/2009 11:48:29 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

Forget! Hell. That’s the only reason I’m here. MoDo has one redeeming quality...and this is it. And it’s totally beyond anything she has control or influence over.

LOL!


72 posted on 12/08/2009 11:50:35 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

Listened to the audio book, I think you mean. I’m not sure Maureen actually reads. Stares at the pages, maybe.

It’s a shame Dorothy Parker isn’t alive today. Leftist as Dorothy might have been, Maureen would have made Tonstant Weader fwow up.


73 posted on 12/08/2009 12:02:33 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: DTogo

Splendid!
Great thought.
Evereadys?


74 posted on 12/08/2009 12:03:12 PM PST by GOYAKLA
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

Ah - ok... I never knew Douglas upgraded from Dowd to Zeta-Jones.

I’ve been here (FR) for years... since 2004, I think... never knew of that rule.


75 posted on 12/08/2009 12:25:10 PM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010; Ro_Thunder
(Dowd used to date actor Michael Douglas. Then he dumped her and married CZJ, and they've lived happily ever after.)

And Mo has been bitter ever since. :)

76 posted on 12/08/2009 12:39:48 PM PST by jellybean ( Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Ooooooh.........kinky....:)


77 posted on 12/08/2009 12:46:06 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: reaganrevolutionin2010

**


78 posted on 12/08/2009 1:22:40 PM PST by what's up
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To: Cyclone59

“And stop those stupid questions about Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Welsh birth preventing her from being VP. She was born in Hawaii and I have MADE the birth certificate to prove it. No, you can’t see it.”

We will have it certified that it has been appropriately subjectd to the fact-check.org authentication criteria.

(Who will collect the cash for the certification fee?)


79 posted on 12/08/2009 1:57:13 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (Palin - 2012: Our best hope!)
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To: Cyclone59

“And stop those stupid questions about Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Welsh birth preventing her from being VP. She was born in Hawaii and I have MADE the birth certificate to prove it. No, you can’t see it.”

We will have it certified that it has been appropriately subjected to the fact-check.org authentication criteria.

(Who will collect the cash for the certification fee?)


80 posted on 12/08/2009 1:57:35 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (Palin - 2012: Our best hope!)
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