Dowd: Season of the Witch

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

[Askel5]

America has entered the season of the witch.

Technically, according to those who've sponsored 99.9% of terrorist cells and training for the past century or so, it's THE PERIOD OF ESCALATING VIOLENCE en route to the World State. Surely she knows this much.

Besides, it's good for goverment. Both the GOP AND the Democrats will tell you that much. They fully anticipate that Americans will decide it's the government's job to protect us and -- further -- that it's perfectly reasonable to trade liberty for "security" on the off chance our gabillions in intelligence activities might prevent a WTC "next time".

The Message They're Sending is Essentially the Same

[Aedammair]

"She must have got hold of some powerful weed. Prose like that can only be produced by a good dose of Maui wowie."

No, more likely it would be Jacksonville homegrown.

[Howlin]

Only five weeks ago, we inhabited a paradise of trivia, wallowing in celebrity, consumerism and cosmetic-surgery advances.

That's you, Mo. Not all of us inhabited that vacous universe of life, thank God.

[HoustonKevin]

The bitch could use million dollars worth of cosmetic-surgery and my dog would still run!!

[nmh]

What meds is she on? Her writing gets worse and worse and worse. Someone please, put her out of her misery.

[KingKongCobra]

Question? Who would you want as daughter? Hildebiest,Dowd or cutsey Couric? you gotta choose if you're a boomer because you gave birth to these idiots.

I could have raised any of them up to be good, God fearing Americans.

[Pokey78]

Like this:

[QBANA]

So true! When I was little my brother used to blast Jimi Hendrix and Cream. This music, I remember used to scare the heck out of me . . .

[EastCoast]

Got a kick out of her opening remarks -- such a blatant phoney. Is she trying to convince us that she's a (hee! hee!) intellectual? Or is she trying to convince herself. The latter, I think. I loved Fantasia as a kid; it was my favorite Disney flick. The music didn't scare me. Maybe Mo needed a therapist as a kid -- it sure shows now that she did.

[pchuck]

But any idea that there was a federal firewall has been shattered. So we're flying blind on a lot of things we've never encountered before.

It is terrible to see Mo's little illusionary bubble popped; but welcome to the club. Although I believe the government's main job is national security and defense, I am still mature enough to know that we live in a not-so-nice world with a lot of terrible people. You can't control most of what is going on, but you can certainly guard against it.

Maureen and her NYT buddies are hopelessly ignorant.

[FReethesheeples]

ROTFLMAO.

[RobbyS]

"We're living the hangover from 8 years of inattention and rule by a president who thought more about his libido tham the security of this nation. The parties over. Time to sober up."

Right on!

[Dan Day]

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."
[snip]
America has entered the season of the witch.

Maureen, if you're going to mention music in the same essay that you use the phrase "season of the witch", for god's sake, give some credit to Donovan.

[dead]

With any luck, she'll be chased around by little Christina Augillera monsters nipping at her soles....

In Dowdy’s world, the little monsters look like Catherine Zeta Jones.

[dead]

Quite rightly.

[JeffMill]

Has anyone here actually read Maureen Dowd before today? She's no friend of Clinton -- her columns took a chunk out of him every time they were published. When she was the White House beat reporter, they constantly complained about her coverage.

She snipes at everyone, conservative or liberal alike. And she absolutely can't stand Al Gore.

Sheesh, talk about a knee-jerk reaction.

[dead]

You've got serious reading comprehension problems. Every third of fourth column, Dowd would take a petulant little swipe at Clinton. And her gripes were always that he should have kept his zipper zipped because he hurt her precious liberal democrat cause.

After each pathetic little snit, she would make amends by writing two screeching columns slamming Ken Starr or Henry Hyde or anybody else who tried to hold her impish rogue president responsible.

She writes a schoolgirlish, incoherent gossip column, and remains blissfully ignorant of the damage Clinton and his Administration did to this country. She's a twit.

[JeffMill]

Agreed that her columns are trite. But she criticized Clinton for having no scruples, no sense of honesty, no sense of loyalty and suborning everything, including national policy, to inflating his own public image.

Harsh stuff.

That said, I think her columns are catty. Now Gail Collins, there was a columnist ....

[Diogenesis]

Nonsense. Most journalists during X42's criminal reign were limp and wussies in his direction.

OTOH when it came to justice -- they obstructed it.