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

come on, maudow doesn't even sound like that. n she writes about celibate priests matchmaking and all other kinds o shit

if people turnin, they turnin

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as a gullible dumbfuck i have the right of deletion for this post directed at me

Nasty stuff. Saudi Arabia and China are just thrown in without special emphasis, but are obviously the poisoned pill you are meant to swallow.

This dirty trick is a lot more subtle than the false madrassa story. Whoever did it has a pretty good idea of how to plant a really flourishing false rumor.

Hatching one takes one or a few people a few days to brainstorm and refine. Squashing it takes a much larger effort and, like cockroaches, you can never kill them all. This one will almost certainly hurt Obama among many hundreds of thousands of voters.

The New York Times is absolutely pathetic these days. Wasn't it once some kind-of newspaper of record?

I can't find him writing about that particular column, but Bob Somerby has his usual coronary going after her bullshit for the last few weeks. Shit, it's a regular occurance now.

SHE DIDNT WRITE THE COLUMN GUYZ

srsly have yall even read maureen dowd before? no refs to clinton sex-life or bush as 'boy king', just a bunch of worldnetdaily style rumor-mongering

Looks like she did. It's got the byline and everything

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RIP Dowd.

Somerby has been having a field day with NYT "Public Editor" Clark Hoyt's very public verbal defenstration of Dowd several weeks ago - over her her deeply weird gender politics. And Somerby's traced how chastened her columns have been since then. "Clark Hoyt gets results!"

http://www.236.com/images/photo2/3702/original/original.jpg

^ Heh heh

I can't type.

her column about the catholic priest who gives marriage advice was incredible. she's a bitter old hag.

Didn't it basically conclude that all men suck and aren't good enough to marry?

Yes. What was also awesome about that one is she didn't even have to write anything for it. (Unless she made the priest up completely.)

i doubt she made it up. I went to parochial school around the same time as Dowd and there were priests who specialized in this. in like 7th or 8th grade there was a padre who went around to all the schools in the diocese and gave a "sex talk" to the kids, separated by gender of course. the girls told us afterwards that he instructed them to "bite a guy's tongue if he sticks in your mouth." scare stories from a nominal celibate.

when Dowd righteously invokes her working-class catholic roots I just see red. what a phony.

LOL @ middle aged single woman looking to priests as fonts of wisdom on marriage and sexuality. maureen should have coffee w/peggy noonan sometime.

Dowd is like a bitchier version of Custos.

haaaaa omg holy shit

Nicole's description just above = lols, but I just stumbled across an equally worthy one due to this sequence of events:

A Dowd column.

Ta-Nehisi Coates's first response.

His second response, apologizing for having 'missed the tongue squarely positioned in Maureen Dowd's cheek.'

One of his commenters in response to his second post:

Irony should be a stiletto -- in Dowd's hands it's more like a lobster mallet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12dowd.html

But Sarah Palin can come across as utterly unready to lead the world — or even find the world on a map — and that doesn't reflect poorly on the rest of us.

It only means that she doesn't have enough mind grapes or thoughtsicles, as Tracy Morgan refers to brain droppings on "30 Rock," to be president soon.

a screaming lobster mallet?

...of love

don't know if I've ever read her, but I saw her on BBC on election night, and she was so tasty !!!

she's best with a bit of drawn butter, IMHO

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_re_us/us_times_dowd

She claims she never read Marshall's post last week and had heard the line from a friend who did not mention reading it in Marshall's blog.

Uh, yeah.

So she'd willingly plagiarize her friend as well?

The early days of Dowd, reporter

Ok, do i want to actually read a column titled "The Tortured Mechanics of Eroticism," or should i just use that as a new display name?

hehe

it's about corsets, p. informative by modo stds.

surprised nobody has said "i'd let her torture my mechanics of eroticism" yet

really, you are? really? now that you've typed it out?

More than surprised. "Flabbergasted."

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

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?