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Spooky, isn't it? Give Maureen another 20 years, and she will look just like Helen. Schadenfreude!
Posted on 10/17/2002 6:18:41 AM PDT by WarrenC
------>Spooky, isn't it? Give Maureen another 20 years, and she will look just like Helen. Schadenfreude!
Bingo, We did hear it here 1st, Section9 are you out there? Also What is The Authors screen name here on the Freep! He is either one of us or a Lurker!!!!!
Yeppers. I read it and agree.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Now that's funny!
Schadenfreude is a wonderful and healthy emotion, especially when directed at those who use it as a life/career tool.
Beautifully said! You make me almost (but not quite) feel sorry for Maureen.
Now that's funny!
Thanks gridlock, LOL...
She is not happy with Gore in 2004. She likes Kerry and Edwards but they are not well known.
Frustrated, she writes drivel hoping to ridicule Bush.
Sad... so sad. Her next stop may be The Brattleboro Retreat or The Institute of Living.
Fine accomodations for a person of her caliber... or lack of.
Yes. Good article. Thanks for the post and the pingaroo !
Honestly, I don't know where Bush ranks in terms of gray matter against past presidents. What I do know is that he's perceptive enough to hire the strongest team of speechwriters since the Kennedy Administration, and he's secure enough to surround himself with folks (again!) like Dick Cheney, who whipped the butt of certified Democratic smarty-pants Joe Lieberman's in their only debate, like Donald Rumsfeld, a no-nonsense hawk who scares the bejeebers out of America's enemies, like Colin Powell, a charismatic moderate and diplomatic "good cop" to counterbalance Rumsfeld's "bad cop," and like Condoleezza Rice, who, in 2008, will likely become both the first African American and the first woman elected president of the United States. (For the record — and you heard it here first — she'll skewer Hillary, platitude by platitude, in a series of Nielson-bonanza debates and take the election in a landslide, thus officially dragging America out of the Clinton Era, that 16-year stretch of moral manure we collectively stepped in back in 1992.)
But to return to the issue of intelligence, or lack thereof, it is symptomatic of the intellectual state of the Left — and Dowd is its great exemplar in this respect — that rhetorical disdain has come to substitute for rational criticism. In just the last several weeks, she's belittled Bush as a latter-day character from the Beverly Hillbillies, as "the Boy Emperor" who needs a Rumsfeld-esque spiritual guide to explain foreign policy, as one of "that small coterie of bewildered guys [who confronted the hipness of the 1960's college students] in wide-wale corduroy trousers, Izod polo shirts and Sperry Topsiders," as "Junior" whose foreign policy is driven by his fear being called a "wimp," and as a desperate son whose goal is to "transform Baghdad into 'Hey, dad, that dude is history.'"
Pulitzer prize winning columnist Maureen Dowd,
captured in a candid moment
(Dowd --- as you may have noticed from the Constitution's Viewpoints page,
which sometimes uses her columns --- enjoys tongue-in-cheek writing. The
day before George W. Bush's inauguration last month, the Constitution
published a column where she made up quotes from an inaugural planner
about how the Bush campaign wanted a return-to-the-Confederacy theme for
the festivities. It was intended to be funny. Some readers took it seriously. I
had to tell them it was a joke, just not a very good one.)
Dan
LOL too horrible a fate even for her.
i would pay $$$ to see this!
Heck, Freepers would fill Yankee Stadium at $30/head for this match.
Of course, it would get old when Dowd would counter by saying, 'That's dumb', 129 times.
The media elitists are not so much biased as they are not so smart.
He's got a point.
The Mainstream Media:
IGNORANCE ON PARADE
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