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Maureen Dowd Hysterically Claims MSNBC Is Tearing Down Obama
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Posted on 08/15/2010 7:49:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Maureen Dowd Hysterically Claims MSNBC Is Tearing Down Obama By Noel Sheppard Created 08/15/2010 - 10:35

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said Sunday MSNBC is tearing down President Obama.

More amazing than that, she was actually serious.

In her "No Love From The Lefties [1]," Dowd bashed "progressives" for not staying on the President's bandwagon.

This includes MSNBC who she hysterically claimed "is trying to make its reputation by tearing down [Obama]":

One of the most disgusting things about Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl, and now the former maverick John McCain, is that they are happy to be co-opted by the radicals in their party to form one movement against President Obama.

On the Republican side, the crazies often end up helping the Republican leadership. On the Democratic side, the radicals are constantly sniping at Obama, expressing their feelings of betrayal.

Fox built up a Republican president; MSNBC is trying to make its reputation by tearing down a Democratic one.

Assuming you haven't passed out from lack of oxygen during an uncontrollable fit of laughter, there's more:

The lefties came to the defense of the centrist Clinton during impeachment. Now that Obama is under attack, however, they are not coming to his defense, even though he has given more to the liberal cause than the scandal-stunted Clinton ultimately achieved.

He has shepherded the biggest expansion of social programs since the Great Society and spearheaded the biggest spending program with the stimulus. But for the left (and for some economists), it was not as big as it ought to have been.

Most telling was that Dowd earlier in the piece mentioned "Michael Kinsley's maxim that a gaffe is just truth slipping out" for the Times columnist was certainly letting her readers in on just how far she's willing to shill for the President she helped get elected.

More importantly, she will publicly scold her colleagues if necessary.

After all, MSNBC is still a devout Obama and Democrat supporter along with a unabashed conservative basher.

That some of its hosts have on occasion in the past year expressed disappointment with the President by no means qualifies the network as tearing him down.

In fact, Dowd herself has in the past nineteen months surprisingly addressed her own concerns for the current White House resident.

Is she the only liberal media member allowed to do so in her view, or are his plummeting poll numbers and a dismal midterm election cycle ahead changing Dowd's mind about she and her ever being honest when it comes to this President?


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To: Sub-Driver
She could look at the bright side...MSNBC only has a few dozen viewers so hardly anyone would know if they tore down Obama.
21 posted on 08/15/2010 8:03:07 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: chickadee
...who emotionally “attach” themselves to a male power figure and defend him like a “mama grizzly bear”.

And if they had gone the traditional route, that male power figure would have been a husband, and they would have had children after all.

Maybe we're better off as it is.

22 posted on 08/15/2010 8:03:28 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Sub-Driver

23 posted on 08/15/2010 8:04:00 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: Sub-Driver

Poor Barack, he is not leftist enough for the leftist media.


24 posted on 08/15/2010 8:04:33 AM PDT by reg45
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To: SERKIT
I knew a man here would step up.......LOL

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

25 posted on 08/15/2010 8:04:56 AM PDT by Viking2002
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To: csvset
At the bottom of the column is says: "Nicholas D. Kristof is off today.", so I guess MODO was just subing for Nick! Thanks for the link and the pic!
26 posted on 08/15/2010 8:06:21 AM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: Sub-Driver
and now the former maverick John McCain, is that they are happy to be co-opted by the radicals in their party to form one movement against President Obama.

Does anyone actually believe that McCain will stay "co-opted" after August 24? Win or loose, he'll be back to reaching out to his "friends across the aisle" and leaving his knife in our backs again.

27 posted on 08/15/2010 8:06:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Republicans often find a way to exploit their extremes for political advantage, while Democratic extremes typically do damage to a Democratic president.

I wonder why?

Republican "extremism" is basically conservatism which is mainstream.

Liberalism "extremism" is basically communism. Which does not play well with the non MoveOn crowd.

Pretty simple. Libs always have to lie about their beliefs.
28 posted on 08/15/2010 8:07:15 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: Sub-Driver

Maureen must be on the hard stuff again.


29 posted on 08/15/2010 8:08:02 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, A picture of Soebarkah!


30 posted on 08/15/2010 8:08:53 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: April Lexington

There are tens of thousands like her embedded in our universities, grade and high schools and in positions of power in our bureaucracies.


31 posted on 08/15/2010 8:10:44 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: April Lexington
Ancient rule... beauty trumps brains every time... She will work until she is ugly...

LOL...explain Helen Thomas...no, I will not post the picture.

32 posted on 08/15/2010 8:10:50 AM PDT by and so? (If it angers you, a sarcasm or irony tag after everything I post should be assumed)
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To: and so?
Hmmm.. you run circles around me logically... I forgot about Helen...
33 posted on 08/15/2010 8:11:43 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Whether they are or not, it’s telling that Dowd considers that dung heap worthy of comment at all.


34 posted on 08/15/2010 8:13:20 AM PDT by 4buttons
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To: chickadee
After WWII, it was illegal in West Germany to be a member of the Nazi Party. Even today, those who were sympathetic are cut out of power. We need to do the same with Democrats. Rotting cancer, the lot of them...
35 posted on 08/15/2010 8:13:46 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: csvset

That’s the only reason I open a MODO thread. God Bless Free Republic.


36 posted on 08/15/2010 8:14:04 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Viking2002

The Maureen Dowd in those photos no longer exists.Try Google search for “Maureen Dowd 2009” and see what she looks like now.Definitely playing the back 9 now.


37 posted on 08/15/2010 8:18:31 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: April Lexington
Clinton is pure sleaze, just less sleaze than Obama...

Actually, Clinton is the one who had his own "body count". I'm not hearing about any mysterious deaths surrounding the Obama administration.

I believe the Clinton's were unprincipled while Obama actually may be principled. Of course Obama's principles are aligned with Karl Marx, which doesn't bode well regardless.

38 posted on 08/15/2010 8:26:27 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: SERKIT

Oh Lordy!
Maureen is sure looking good these days!! (sarc.)


39 posted on 08/15/2010 8:32:17 AM PDT by Riptides
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To: The Duke

Clinton is old school South, Obama is old school Chicago. They both have a method of dealing with problems.


40 posted on 08/15/2010 8:34:43 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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