Discussion: NYT Columnist Defends Trump's Comments On Megyn Kelly

system1 · August 17, 2015, 3:14pm

Discussion for article #239473

dave_mb · August 17, 2015, 3:59pm

Reading about Trump is one thing. Trump and Rosie O’Donnell in the same article? Trump and Maureen Dowd?

Make the bad man stop.

sniffit · August 17, 2015, 4:05pm

Aaaah, I was wondering when the Dowd Syndrome would kick in and deliver us a dollop of derp. Right on time…

hfitzjr · August 17, 2015, 4:05pm

Oh, no, Mrs. Cleaver. In fact, Wallace and I were just discussing how enjoyable it would be if Theodore accompanied us to the cinema this afternoon. And I must say, that’s a very fetching ensemble you’ve chosen this morning…

enon · August 17, 2015, 4:08pm

this entire issue and the coverage it’s garnered is repulsive. frankly, i think he was getting ready to say blood dripping from her fangs, but stopped … leaving others to fill in the blank.

re trump – watched a doc ‘you’ve been trumped’ over the weekend… about him destroying a unique slice of scotland for one of his golf courses… and the families who dared stand against him. he in turn cut off their access to water and electricity in his efforts to destroy them.

berkshire_boy · August 17, 2015, 4:12pm

Maureen Dowd disgusts me. Maybe Trump wasn’t talking about Kelly menstruating. But Dowd would never have given Hillary Clinton the benefit of that doubt. She would have piled on with a despicable, angry, snide, sarcastic screed unworthy of even the opinion pages in a reputable publication.

dustbunny44 · August 17, 2015, 4:13pm

MD doesn’t defend DT by accident. Watch that space.

mantan · August 17, 2015, 4:14pm

spaghetti and meatballs, with a side of pulled pork

Exactly. Donald’s Grinch heart-smart lunch summarized MoDo and the press beautifully…

steviedee111 · August 17, 2015, 4:19pm

I guess someone has to step into the Judith Miller shoes at the Times. Sycophants get paid well. Dowd will do admirably I’m sure. She’s probably already prepping a story about aluminum tubes and WMDs hidden away in Iran, laying the groundwork for defense of Trump’s nuking of Tehran.

ctvoter · August 17, 2015, 4:22pm

Read Dowd’s whole column at the Times website.

I’ll pass, thanks.

alex0315 · August 17, 2015, 4:23pm

I’m a Democrat, voted twice for Obama and will be voting for Hillary. I think Trump’s a clown. But I actually agreed with Dowd. Never did think he meant it that way.

ralph_vonholst · August 17, 2015, 4:26pm

So mean girls Trump 2016. Who knew?

sniffit · August 17, 2015, 4:27pm

And maybe I wasn’t calling Maureen Dowd a retard when I said “Dowd Syndrome”…

srfromgr · August 17, 2015, 4:46pm

What if he bursts into Trumpian analysis of how Carly and Hillary look?

Me thinks Maureen Dowd is feigning way too much bogus concern on the looks or “dowdiness” of female candidates.

Perhaps because, as her own name suggests, she is an easy target for attacks on her own appearance, she still comes off to many of her critics, like myself, as being the first and foremost voracious, catty opinion-maker on women in power today, particularly the kind of superficiality that goes into her views on Hillary Clinton. It goes without saying, but there is value in pointing out her own hypocrisy and meaningless unsolicited tripe, which should automatically disqualify her from commenting at all on this topic. …In other words, she’s hardly one to talk or give advice on how to view women based solely on looks and then try to draw conclusions from those observations, imo.

Perhaps she needs to clean up the tRUMP harrumph to make herself feel better and deny seeing herself as rolling in the mud together on this issue with him or being like two peas in a pod…Well, Good luck with that Maureen. You lost honest appraisal of candidates, especially the female ones, years ago.

meri · August 17, 2015, 4:46pm

Oh, Mo, I prefer redheads, but Kelly will always win the Miss Media trophy.

machoneman · August 17, 2015, 4:47pm

Wikipedia: Dowd.

Dowdy for short. Vigorous defender of all things Republican. Primary hater of all things Clinton. On a mission from God to destroy all things Clinton. Makes up charges out of thin air. Can be found at the NYC asylum for lunatics.

mattinpa · August 17, 2015, 4:48pm

I guess MoDo has a certain empathy for vindictive narcissists who make snap judgments, nurse grudges, and have been inexplicably successful for decades.

trippin · August 17, 2015, 4:50pm

No, he wasn’t talking about Kelly’s period. He was talking about the parentheses surrounding her exclamation point.

matthew1961 · August 17, 2015, 4:50pm

I always pass as well. In fact, Krugman is the only columnist at the Times whom I read regularly.

But as for Dowd, Friedman, Douthat–almost never at this point. That’s not on principle or because of some pledge that I’ve made. It’s just that whenever I see a column with one of those names attached I automatically feel a profound sense of indifference.

runfastandwin · August 17, 2015, 4:53pm

Of course he was, you peabrain. How people this stupid get to keep writing such BS, for the NY TImes no less, is a national disgrace.