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

dave_mb · August 17, 2015, 4:54pm

Ascribing meaning to Donald Trump leads to insanity.

ncsteve · August 17, 2015, 4:57pm

Not really indifference for me. Friedman, Bobo, Modo, Douthit, the World’s Most Catholic Man, even Kristoff, really; whenever I see them being reported on, I experience the same mixture of surprise and shopworn contempt I feel each time I discover there’s still such a thing as AOL.

grawk · August 17, 2015, 5:01pm

The real story in all this was and continues to be the conservative “media” faking outrage at misogyny.

matthew1961 · August 17, 2015, 5:11pm

Yes I forgot to mention Kristoff, who would be included too. I confess I still occasionally take Brooks’ bait–but very occasionally. Anyway, I know what you mean about the sense of contempt with respect to those guys, but at this point for me the shopworn quality trumps it. I just find the whole point of view, the relentless presentation of it, so utterly tiresome I can’t bring myself to have any strong feeling one way or the other about its purveyors.

ctvoter · August 17, 2015, 5:13pm

Kindred spirits!

skippyflipjack · August 17, 2015, 5:21pm

I think maybe Maureen Dowd hasn’t spent enough time hanging out with guys like Trump. Hell, even guys who aren’t like Trump let jokes like that slip from time to time.

zrx1100 · August 17, 2015, 5:21pm

She has insights that no one else has. No one. Isn’t she amazing?

kmiller · August 17, 2015, 5:22pm

I have a subscription to the NY Times, and I refuse to read anything by Dowd. She’s awful. I sometimes read the comments, just to get at feel for how badly she’s done and, invariably, the commenters are reacting negatively to the column. I really wish she would just go away and the Times would hire someone with real writing and critical thinking skills.

kerick · August 17, 2015, 5:22pm

I stopped reading this hateful woman’s blogs when I realized that her hard-on for anything anti-President Obama had to be due to something unsaid. She just comes across as a writer-for-sale type who will sell her seeming intelligence to the highest bidder - oh, silly me, she did do that, didn’t she!

mattinpa · August 17, 2015, 5:23pm

Yes. They are very alike and should date.

jjrothery · August 17, 2015, 5:29pm

She has expensive taste, and she likes access to the wealthy inner circle of Manhattan and what that gives her. This was her dipping a manicured toe in the water, you are absolutely correct.

Now on a completely tongue in cheek angle…I’d say she’s angling for Press Secretary in a Trump cabinet.

hora_del_cafe · August 17, 2015, 5:30pm

I am not a woman and I knew Trump was referring to menstrual period when he attacked Kelly.

anniew · August 17, 2015, 5:32pm

This. Listen to the video when he slams Rosie in the debate. There is some woman in the background almost braying with laughter. I bet she’s the type of women that would love to get on Trump’s good side. I bet he wouldn’t give her the time of day.

gr · August 17, 2015, 5:33pm

For years I read her column until she went after Gore by feminizing him, what you do to an opponent when you have nothing rational to say: He’s something less than a “real” man.

The woman is insane.

anniew · August 17, 2015, 5:34pm

Well, she hates sissies and earth tones on men, too. How in the world could Gore wear earth tones…

Obviously she’s a real deep thinker.

bankerpup · August 17, 2015, 5:41pm

Chirp: Did she write about Clinton again?
Peep: Nope. But she’s gotten sucked into the Trump-o-sphere.
Chirp: No wonder our cage gets lined with her column every Monday.
Peep: And to think they call us birdbrains.

serendipitoussomnambulist · August 17, 2015, 5:46pm

I don’t think that Donald Trump was referring to Megyn Kelly menstruating either. I think that it was an odd choice of words. He may have mean Whatever and said Wherever. Also, Donald Trump has been involved in boxing and wrestling entertainment. Bloodshot eyes and bloody noses are frequent in those contact entertainment events.

wanderer · August 17, 2015, 5:51pm

If you’ve listened to the audio, you know it’s pretty much coded speech and what his intent was.

Dowd is just another looooser (Trump’s words) hopping on the coat tails of his sky high media circus.

jordanolsen26 · August 17, 2015, 5:53pm

I am always wary of people being taken out of context, but when I heard the audio of his statement, it seemed much more likely he was referring to her being on her period than something else.

But we’ll never really know. What we do know is that he is factually inaccurate on almost every issue possible (seriously, take a look at PolitiFact). The only thing keeping the media from bringing up all of his inaccuracies or outright lies is the fact that he says something stupider every week to overshadow his past statements.

jw1 · August 17, 2015, 6:02pm

HeadlineFix:

Dopey NYT Writer Runs Out Of Dopey Chocolate; Writes Dopey Column.

jw1