I don’t know if you become the thing you hate—very few Obama-haters resemble Obama to me—but you do become obsessive and tiresome. Can you imagine being on a date with this woman? “Oh! And you know another thing I hate about Hillary Clinton? It’s that she never blah blah blah…” And you’re sitting across from her thinking, She’s nice looking, but—no. Really, just no. Or at least you might have thought that 15 or 20 years ago.
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If not having been relevant since the 90s is the criterion for being retired from the NYT Op/Ed team, they’d have to retire everyone except Krugman and Douthit, and then retire Douthit for never having been relevant at any time in history.
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Quote:
‘So when I think of Williams, I think of Kelly. And when I think of Kelly, I think of Hillary,’
Well, when I think of lunch I think of dinner and when I think of dinner I think of bedtime and when I think of bedtime I think of getting a piece.
Actually I’m just thinking of getting a piece so I should just drop all the intermediate steps. I suggest Dowd do the same re Hillary.
Modo interviews Robin? Strange how the corporate celebrity blender whizes these differing types into a big dysfunctional family of enablers…Maybe a mental munchie for MoDo’s next marijuana experience in her broom closet office at the magazine?
When Maureen Dowd was seemingly outside of the bubble her columns were “spot on.” Now that she is seemingly inside the bubble she’s lost any critical perspective. The same thing happened to others, e.g. Bob Woodward. Their persona becomes more important than their critical and observational skills. They only look at themselves.
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How do you think of the “Iraq invasion” [sic] and not first think of Bush-Cheney’s war?
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When Maureen wakes every morning she thinks of Hillary.
Just maybe Bill didn’t proposition Maureen??
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So, speaking of free association, one of the most interesting little twists in Frank Miller’s 1980s “The Dark Knight Returns” graphic novel series is that after Bruce Wayne retires the cape, the Joker went catatonic. And then, when a decade later, he returns in response to a typically Millerian depiction of the descent of society into liberal-enabled criminality and chaos, the Joker comes back to life. It’s one of those little touches that make Miller’s borderline fascist stuff bearable to me–the way he’ll weave an ambiguity like this into the story. The Joker exists only because Batman exists. Batman may not have created the Joker, but he enabled and empowered him and gave him a sense of purpose and without Batman, the Joker recedes into harmless catatonia.
Every time I see a story about MoDo at TPM as a result of the looming candidacy of Hillary, I think of this panel.
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But it’s not necessarily bad for EMPLOYMENT in the exciting, effervescent field of political punditry.
And what wonderful therapy for an unreconstructed Clinton botherer! If whenever you think of aardvarks, or zygotes, or anything and everything in between, you’re constantly reminded of the Clintons, then the last two decades and next one (at least!) are right up your perfumed mystical of Dreamgrope Alley … SOMEWHERE!
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It’s doesn’t appear to have limited the career of the vast majority of Beltway and national politics pundits who’ve already lost all credibility.
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Why doesn’t she just come out already?
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I used to read Dowd, but she’s not really relevant any longer. Her writing is forced and her opinions are lame.
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A contra deux with the Clenis would be just the sort of imagined piece Modor could go for. I expect her new digs will allow her lots and lots of freedom to stake out the Jabberwonky at its traditional hunting grounds in Aspen, Davos, and other such mountain and beach resorts, fully armed with her fabled polishing equipment.
“So when I think of Williams, I think of Kelly. And when I think of
Kelly, I think of Hillary, because Michael was the first American
reporter to die in the Iraq invasion, and Hillary Clinton was one of the
29 Democratic senators who voted to authorize that baloney war.”
((facepalm))
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When I think of journalistic derp, I think of MoDo.
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I think Mo has become the first drug burnout after one brownie! Is rehab next?
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This is Dowd’s “Six-Degrees of Hillary”.
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It is the neck thing.
Maureen seems to have a critical jealousy complex about Hillary! She needs help! She’s OCD!
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I’ve said for some time that the woman is a stone head case.