Culture War With B-2's (Dowd alert)

The New York Times ^ | 09/22/2002 | Maureen Dowd

[Pokey78]

As my girlfriend Dana said: "Bush is like the guy who reserves a hotel room and then asks you to the prom."

Nice try Mo. You have no girlfriends. This is just the latest example of Mo having sexual fantasies about George W., but of course she won't admit to them. Mo really wants the President to take her to the prom, since she never went to hers. She was head of the decorating committee; living out all of her fantasys hanging the crepe paper & making the fruity punch.

But when the time came, she was alone in her room, beefcake magazines scattered on her bed; the smell of Aqua Velva wafting through the dimly lit room while "Stairway to Heaven" played on the hi-fi.

Maureen Down . . .THIS IS YOUR LIFE!

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From Oxblog:

IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD

1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.

2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.

3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.

4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.

5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.

6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.

7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.

[Who dat?]

As my girlfriend Dana said: "Bush is like the guy who reserves a hotel room and then asks you to the prom."

And Dana and Mo are like the girls that assume that room is meant for sexual relations with them. And are disappointed when it is not.

[jackbill]

As my girlfriend Dana said:

Hey, Mo. Did you mean "life partner" or "significant other"? Have you turned to the girls since Michael Douglas dumped you?

[Quicksilver]

Earth to Mo' Duh: B2's don't need to be moved.

[Diogenesis]

Dowd is obviously a shill for Islamic Arabs.

She lives in a make believe world of projection and transferance.

Meanwhile, the USA is at war with terrorism, obstructed by Dowd and the media-weenies
still on their bended knees for you-know-who.

[Lockbox]

War is not the prom. Dealing with an enemy is not like dating.

So maybe you should stick to what you know about........................ sorry can’t think of anything Ms. Dowd knows about.

[dighton]

As the Pentagon moves troops, carriers, covert agents and B-2 bombers into the Persian Gulf ...

There's talk of B-2s being flown to Diego Garcia: which (begging General Dowd's pardon) is NOT in the Persian Gulf.

[Cicero]

Unfortunately Howell Raines had an affair with Dowd when he took over the Times, so there's probably no hope that they will give her the boot as she so thoroughly deserves.

If anything, Dowd is a cut below People Magazine.

[cubreporter]

Ah Maureen, thre's nothing better than a B-52. Big, awesome, powerful, intimidating and EFFECTIVE. :)

Now, let's move on to the Cheney's and their homespun songs and such. Mrs. Cheney's primer is one of the best books out. It has TRUE FACTS and excellent illustrations. A beautiful book. Obviously you HAVE read it. Come on now....tell the truth...you HAVE read it. You couldn't resist. It's brilliant and you know it. Plus...I would sit around their piano and sing Home on the Range any day of the week at their house instead of "Woe is me" at yours!

Go President Bush... "Bombers...B-52" Ya gotta love it!

[efnwriter]

Dowd is only interested in Dowd. The entire article is a snooty reply to never having been asked to the prom, let alone to a hotel room afterwards.
This is real, Ms. Dowd. These men are not driven by testosterone induced fantasies of Ms. Rotten Crotch out of her chiffon gown. You, Ms. Dowd, are obviously still living in that post-adolecent pimply faced world.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Dowd is simple-minded dope read by other simple-minded dopes. Her column is a waste of good pulp.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Liberals just don't get it. When people ask what is new about Iraq that makes it imperative that we go to war, and Rumsfeld says 3,000 dead Americans, he isn't saying that Saddam is responsible. That misses the point. The point isn't that Saddam is or isn't responsible for 9/11. The point is that seeing 3,000 American's die in that attack has pointed out the vulnerabilities the US faces in the current international environment. 9/11 is something that puts our vulnerability in context. Now, if liberals don't want to remove that vulnerability, they should say so. 9/11 underscores the urgency with which we must address our enemies, and those that do or MIGHT support them. Saddam clearly is the most immenent threat because he 1.) has Chem and Bio weapons that could be given to terrorist to attack the US, and 2.) is developing nukes that could be given to terrorists or used as a coercive threat in the region which would enhance the power and strategic interest of those that want to KILL US ALL. I think maybe Ms. Dowd should spend some time in Baghdad if she is so sympathetic to Saddam.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Peggy Noonan's grocery list is more artfully and cogently written than anything by Mo Cowd.

[SC Swamp Fox]

....and the #1 rule for dealing with the enemy.

1) You negotiate with the enemy with your knee in his chest and your knife at his throat.

Some people just can't grasp simple truths.

"Aim small, miss small."

[cadillac cowboy]

In summation: M.D. cries out, wailing for a 'Tom Selleck type' to stress relieve her at least on saturday night....make that 5 times a week.

[AzJP]

George Junior's daddy got in a fight, the other guy is still standing, so Junior's gonna' do good by daddy. Texas code of honor.

M

[claptrap]

Interesting Ms. Dowd equates proms and dating with war
she obviously has issues in the latter two departments.
The rest of her little rant was expectedly "Dowdian"!

[woofie]

I can now only make it through 2 paragraphs....any chance she can write shorter columns?

[Democrap]

Mo

Well you told Bush off but good. I can tell from your logical thinking that you would be the kind of person that would defend America from all enemies foreign and domestic.

But why you would want to do that, I could never imagine, hating the country the way you do? But all in all it is a good democrap argument.

[ArcLight]

Speaking as a writer, what really annoys me is that there's almost nothing here. No facts, no sources, no real journalism. She just rants. If she'd just get out and do somer reporting, Maureen Dowd's column might just become worthwhile reading again.