maureen dowd: what IS this woman's problem anyhoo?

Her latest screw-up re the NYC mayoral race made Bill de Blasio's wife sound like she was calling Christine Quinn a childless, uncaring lesbian.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/please_fire_maureen_dowd_or_get_her_a_fact_checker/

Jake Silverstein ‏@jakesilverstein 10m
Thrilled to announce that the incomparable @NYTimesDowd is joining the @NYTmag as a staff writer. Drug test not required.

Brian Stelter ‏@brianstelter 1m
Keeps Sunday op-ed column RT @DylanByers: Maureen Dowd joins N.Y. Times Magazine http://politi.co/1oCQArG

our long national nightmare has been reduced to one column a week

will bring new meaning to the term "longread"

for posterity

It is a fable conjured up in several classic movies: A magnetic, libidinous visitor shows up and insinuates himself into the lives of a bourgeois family. The free spirit leaves, but only after transforming the hidebound family, so that none of them can see themselves the same way again. That is the profound metamorphosis Trump has wrought on the race. The Don Rickles of reality shows is weirdly bringing some reality to the presidential patty-cake. The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations.

that paragraph convinces me that Dowd uses an algorithm to generate her columns; plug in outdated pop culture references plus current political issues, names and buzz cliches, run the script and you get a column connecting the topic of the day to the Clintons.

Yeah, but now I kinda want to see a remake of Teorema starring James Deen wearing a Donald Trump wig.

"strange server"?

dug yesterday's column

Making the case against Hillary, (Obama) said (in 2008) that America deserved more than triangulating and poll-driven positions and “the same old Washington textbook campaign,” more than a candidate answering questions whatever way she thought would be popular and “trying to sound or vote like Republicans, when it comes to national security issues.”

What about principles, he asked, what about a higher purpose?

Obama was not surrounded by the mercenary likes of David Brock and Dick Morris but true believers like David Axelrod.

The Clintons, infuriated by the raft of Democrats who deserted them during the 2008 campaign, sneered at Obama’s hope and change message. Hillary protested, “We don’t need to be raising the false hopes of our country.” Bill groused, “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Voters, however, were starved for the fairy tale. For many, the line in an Obama ad rang true: “Hillary Clinton. She’ll say anything and change nothing. It’s time to turn the page.”

Evidently, President Obama folded the corner of that page over so he could go back to it later. Remarkably, he bought us our return ticket to the past, rolling out the red carpet for the restoration of the Clinton blurred-lines White House....

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/thanks-obama.html

obv mostly reminders, but Bubba in the solar system of OTM

wow dude

<3 dispatching plouffie to break the news to uncle joe

imagining joe & hrc split the Savage Mules vote and Sanders waltzes through

it's almost as though politicians are ambitious and self-interested

almost

she's so mediocre that she can't rise to the level of bad

true believers

folded the corner of that page

return ticket to the past

rolling out the red carpet

blurred-lines White House

I'm sure I missed some.

there is something really retro about maureen dowd. she's like the normcore of columnists.

Poppy Bush used to find her funny, which tells me everything.

she is like, america's cool aunt. as a kid, her jokes at thanksgiving seemed sophisticated and cool, like a portal into another, less humdrum world than the one you were familiar with. but looking back, as an adult, it's clear that she was a poseur in the end.

"in the end"

Reading her and colleague William Safire's attempts at bon mots and sophisticated banter was like watching old men trying to pee into the urinal.

still, the Clintons are subhuman garbage and i don't give a shit about style in political writing

xo

that was obvious from the revive

"subhuman garbage"

thanks for staying out of the election thread morbs, my blood pressure thanks you.

fuck you, that thread is for you and your fellow tourettesians

I was happy to see my friend's teenage son posted her 'HRC is the perfect Republican nominee' column on FB the other day, STYLE be damned

'scaling wokeback mountain'

her writing style is overwrought in a way seldom seen in this era, as if in crafting prose she's invented as version of 'wit' that has neither humor nor insight

no clue why you'd use a word like 'mandarins' to refer to people with perceived power in 2019, but she did it recently

she was best buds w/ Poppy Bush so she sure can pick em

plus using Rahm Satan Emanuel as her primary source this week

credit where credit is due. this opening was good:

My favorite “Twilight Zone” episode is the one where aliens land and, in a sign of their peaceful intentions, give world leaders a book. Government cryptographers work to translate the alien language. They decipher the title — “To Serve Man” — and that’s reassuring, so interplanetary shuttles are set up.

But as the cryptographers proceed, they realize — too late — that it’s a cookbook.

That, dear reader, is the story of OpenAI.

Unless you haven't seen that episode before. Maybe a spoiler alert, Mo?