The tortured logic of Mo Dowd

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Sunday, February 6, 2005 | Dimitri Vassilaros

[Willie Green]

Maureen Dowd, the very cute but impossibly shrewish columnist for The New York Times, has a problem with sex.

Dowd is in a dither because female military interrogators used their feminine wiles on Muslim detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Which is a great plan because terrorists tend to be so uptight about earthly women that they prefer the 72 virgins waiting for them in heaven.

Great plan, unless the suspects are gay.

Or unless our chicks look like Abu Ghraib prison guard Lyndie England.

In a recent column, Dowd wrote that, " ... female interrogators used a toxic combination of sex and religion to try to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba. It's not merely disgusting. It's beyond belief."

Actually, it's like one of those letters that begins, "Dear Playboy, You are not going to believe this, but ... ."

[Goodgirlinred]

Oh, well, that makes it better then. However, now that this has leaked out, woe unto the guys in charge. Who the heck does the leaking?

[McGruff]

Boy if she don't remind me of the movie Fatal Attraction.

[Boazo]

You're going to be in hot water with the Coulter crowd for pasting Dowd's head on Ann's body. Me... Your the one bringing up Coulter.It was a secret! Ha

[F.J. Mitchell]

Good point.

[F.J. Mitchell]

speed_addiction, you have either been highly complimented or severely insulted, I don't have sufficient information to determine which.

[Lazamataz]

Uh, Laz, what are you on? Do you have a good doc? Where is your buddy tonight? The guy who explains you to the world?

You're just jealous because I can menstruate.

[Goodgirlinred]

Uh, not really , Laz. I had babies. Can you do that?

[Hildy]

What is wrong with everybody? I think what they did was perfect. I don't know, smearing some FAKE blood on someone is a bit softer than cutting off their head. Maybe it's just me.

[Lazamataz]

Uh, not really , Laz. I had babies. Can you do that?

I have babies regularly.

Some of them I saute, others I barbeque, but my favorite is to grill 'em.

[Hildy]

Laz, don't have time to go through this entire thread, but I would like to know about your desire to menstruate. Can you give me the Cliffs Notes version please!

[Lazamataz]

Laz, don't have time to go through this entire thread, but I would like to know about your desire to menstruate. Can you give me the Cliffs Notes version please.

Sure.

I need to bleed. </CliffNotes>

[Hildy]

But only women bleed.

[Lazamataz]

To quote my other post: "I want to be able menstruate as fully and freely as I wish. Even if my monthly flow should build in intensity to a raging rust colored torrent! An unbridled river of life giving blood flowing from between my legs! An awesome cataract plunging off the edge of my couch.

I wouldn't be fazed! No, no, even if Quebec's finest beaver trappers would come up stream, battling the rapids, and singing a jaunty song! I would ford across that mighty red river, admiring my fecundity, for I.... am a man who wants to MENSTRUATE!!!"

[Constantine XIII]

Well, it depends on how many people she'd killed

[Lazamataz]

But only women bleed.

REM says that EVERYBODY hurts.

[lady lawyer]

Actually, the fake blood was kind of clever. Devout Muslims still believe the "unclean" thing. Menstruating women are not supposed to even touch the Koran.

[XJarhead]

You make a good point.

[mhking]

Maureen Dowd, the very cute

Uh....no.

Our G. I. Janes supposedly used miniskirts, tight T-shirts, bras, thong underwear and sexual touching -- in late-night sessions -- to make the terrorists talk.

Oh, you've gotta be kidding. So all we have to do is take the Guantanamo terrorists to the closest stripjoint and they'll talk non-stop? I don't think so!

Dowd, who in a subsequent Thursday column pondered if "male nipples prove evolution," ended by asking, "But isn't it simply more effective to throw them in isolation and try to build some sort of relationship?"

Maureen Dowd is a poor excuse for a writer, who has a shrill fetish with conservatives in power. Give her a copy of The Nation, turn on some lurid music and put her in a dark room so she can pleasure herself with her own fantasies and leave the adults alone.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Hildy]

Well, you're killing ME.

[BraveMan]

From http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=6780

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"I sleep very well," Al-Beshi said in an interview with the Saudi daily Okaz, adding that his social life and family ties have suffered no drawbacks on account of his unusual profession. Al-Beshi is paid per killing and the government also provides him with the execution tool - the sword - worth around $5,300.

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At first thought, I am inclined to agree with you, Goodgirlinred. But then their treatment of prisoners immediately springs to mind. Perspective increases clarity.