The Soufflé Doctrine (Dowd MEGA alert)

The New York Times ^ | 10/20/2002 | Maureen Dowd

[Pokey78]

Reason for this extra vile column? Mrs. Douglas is pregnant again.

[linn37]

severely weird chick bump

[anniegetyourgun]

Yep...definitely on her last nerve....and her last brain cell.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

this is the biggest one I could find maureen

[Paul Atreides]

I wonder; does she act all of this drivel out in her head, before writing it? Or, does she have a female friend, as bitter as herself, in which to role play?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I think even liberals have to be getting sick of this one-trick pony hag.

[CatoRenasci]

Dowd can be funny, is usually merely tendentious, but this is really vile. Someone should rid W of this troublesome sow.

[dighton]

Reason for this extra vile column? Mrs. Douglas is pregnant again.

They say she looks positively radiant.

;-)

[rdb3]

Reason for this extra vile column? Mrs. Douglas is pregnant again.

I believe you are absolutely right. Why didn't I think of that?

[anniegetyourgun]

Their hatred is getting the best of them. This little guttersnipe has lost all rights to be called a journalist. She is nothing but a impudent child with a laptop.

[Mike Darancette]

The Boy Emperor picked up the morning paper and, stunned, dropped his Juicy Juice box with the little straw attached. "Oh, man," he wailed. "North Korea's got nukes.

Why does Ms. Dowd think the President called Korea part of the Axis of Evil?

Ms Dowd is probably one the few people in this country that are surprised by this failure of the Toon in the arena of Foreign Policy.

[Democrap]

Gooooooood name calling!

We democraps our soooo good at this.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

This little guttersnipe

good line I havent heard the term guttersnipe in a while

[Arioch7]

Amazing... she actually berates President Reagan for crushing the Soviet Union.

Hey, if she loves it so much, I will take all of her money and give her a one room shack to live in, its more efficient dont you know?

I will also brainwash her children and slaughter her the second she gets out of line. Maybe I will do some whacky experiments on her for fun!

Hey, I am not a sicko, she WANTS this. Whats worse, she wants it for the American People!

Believe me, with a centralized government, there will be no use for an intellect such as hers(Non-existent.), so she will be a slave.

If God is just, when she dies, she will get EXACTLY what she wants to be foisted on her for eternity.

I have to end it here or I will be banned.

[johniegrad]

Her thought processes are so idiosyncratic that they are hard to follow. Somewhere along the line someone has rewarded her for this type of stuff by claiming that she is clever. But there is nothing clever about it at all. Her style is self-absorbed by her own belief in this cleverness but many of the connections she makes are only in her head. I guess if she obfuscates enough, everyone will think she is more intelligent than they are because they can't understand it. Myself, I think she's not eccentric but merely mentally ill.

[okie01]

"Dowd can be funny, is usually merely tendentious, but this is really vile."

Occasionally clever, sometimes cute. But it has been the better part of two years since Maureen was actually funny.

Like thematic TV ads, formula writing tends to lose its steam after the 83rd iteration.

[Congressman Billybob]

Dowd is resentful of powerful men. She resents them because whe is neither powerful, nor a man. As a result, she becomes a whining, spitful ankle-biter. And THIS is Pulitzer-Prize-winning writing?

I don theenk so.

Congressman Billybob

This column is based on the fine work by FReepers in a thread on FR. Click for "Ballistics and Bullsh*t"

Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"

[CaptainK]

Mo's menopausal tirades can always be traced to some happy event in the Douglas marriage. You could set your nuclear clock to it.
Wait until "Chicago" is released at the end of this year. Ms. Zeta Jones on the big screen in dancing leotards. A Prozac drip will be in order.

[guitfiddlist]

This "hit" piece is amazingly juvenile for the Gray Old Hooker. It should be rolled up along with the 8 other pounds of fish-wrap-worthy opinion, and used to wack every liberal under their tail, while jamming their snouts in their usual pile of crap concerning the "intellectualism" of the Left.

[Tom Jefferson]

I don't get it. What does this column, as vile as it is, have to do with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zita-Jones?