Dowd: Season of the Witch

The New York Times ^ | 10/14/2001 | maureen dowd

[section9]

Okay, aside from the lack of a sexy pic of Catharine Zeta-Jones that should be part of every Dowd thread, one should understand that any Dowd article should be used as a proof for the following axiom:

"Good writing is no proof of good reasoning."

Dowd still hasn't caught up with the fact that we are living in the future.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[meyer]

Do you think that Dowd is on the verge of learning that the government cannot possibly be the answer to all problems? Naaaaaawwww!!

[Palladin]

Ah, yes, this dried up old Clinton flunkie should know about witches. On her keyboard, yes--and in her vodka tonic too. Then mercifully there will be an end to her pitiful caterwauling.

[Brett66]

How about if we force feed the terrorists remains to Dowd? Doesn't matter how they get in the belly of a pig.

[jackbill]

Not to worry, Maureen. Whoever is sending the "anthrax mail" to the media is only sending them to important people in the media. You know, like Tommy Brokejaw and the Inquirer.

[KingKongCobra]

Damn, deceptive headline. I thought it would tell me where Hillary has been hiding lately.

[xm177e2]

This would be a fine article except for one small line: The president, an Andover cheerleader... why does she have to be so insulting? It's not at all tasteful, it just makes her look like a jerk. Please, Maureen, pull yourself together, for your own good! You don't want to end up like Molly Ivins, do you?

[Licensed-To-Carry]

This woman Dowd, never a more total idiot has walked the face of the earth.

Clueless.

[Miss Marple]

Right you are, Chris. I find it fascinating to see how some people have realized this and some haven't. Everything has changed, and survival depends on recognizing the new reality. Maureen can't. She is trapped in her little cocoon of the 90's, and although she is listing some of the problems, it seems that her answer is drinking, drugs, and whining.

I have noticed other instances of this ability to change/not change. Schumer has grasped this. So has Charlie Rangel. Hillary Clinton has not. Brokaw and Rather have caught on....Jennings hasn't.

It is fascinating to watch, and I am intrigued by identifying who can adapt and who cannot.

[opinionator]

The record I loved best was Rimsky-Korsakov's romantic "Scheherazade," about the young Islamic woman who spellbinds an Arab sultan with 1,001 tales. The record that frightened me was Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," the surreal celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath — so vividly animated in "Fantasia."

Look at how sophisticated I am! I speak of things that 99% of my readers know nothing about. Please worship me as the goddess I am.

[okie01]

"When, oh when, is the New York Times going to wake up and dump this idiot? She is a) ignorant; b) too lazy to go out and research her columns; c) the worst writer the Times has ever had working for them, bar none.

"Time to admit they made a mistake and cut their losses."

Nonetheless, in the NYTimes scheme of things, Maureen has her purposes. She is responsible for articulating the inner feelings of its limousine liberal audience.

She is to the shallow elitist left as Rush Limbaugh is to the right: she validates their thinking.

Granted, it doesn't make for much meat on a 750-word column's bones. But there it is...

[HoustonKevin]

...makes a person re-think their position on abortion!

[Wonder Warthog]

"We were living too much in the present when the terrorists struck — we were not ready to be attacked from the inside, not ready to overcome turf fights and identity crises at the C.I.A. and F.B.I., not ready to fight a spidery global war with medieval brutes, not ready to take on the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia and Egypt on terrorism, not ready to combat bioterrorism."

So what else is new, Maureen?? America has ALWAYS been that way, yet on every occasion to date, has risen from that introspective trance to shake the roots of the rest of the world. BEWARE when the sleeping giant wakes!!!!

[SamAdams76]

When I saw the title, I thought the column was about Shrillary Clinton, the junior senator from New York with whom firefighters would rather open Tom Brokaw's mail then shake hands with. I feel gypped!

[Interesting Times]

Maureen is an inspiration to young people everywhere.

"Hey kids, when the going gets tough, curl up into a ball and whine..."

[FITZ]

I kind of agree with her on a few of her points. The terrorists are inside America, they are leaving them inside America and respecting their rights to travel about freely and have full access to everything and everybody in this country......and yet we are being told that we must carry on as usual, don't be scared. To me it is schizophrenic, we'll be safer then these people are gone. Eventually they will be but it's going to take a few more thousand regular people dying or a few high profile people dying before anything will be done.