LOL

Well, Dowd has deserved this kind of ass kicking for a long time, so, Bravo.  She is quite the pathetic one.  I will never forget when, while reading her book, I forgot the name?  Maybe, Men, Who Needs Them?  Something like that, anyway, it became glaringly apparent that she had once had a live-in relationship with John Tierney of the NY Times.  It was a horrfiying disclousure since he is such a moron.  And I mean, a real, Grade-A moron.  During his one year as an Times op-ed columinist, I wrote to the Times every time he published to let them know that their machiavellian plot to make David Brooks like smart by publishing Tierney’s idiocy was coming along just swimmingly. 

And then I found out that Dowd not only had lived with this dope, but he had left her!  And instead of celebrating, she was so depressed she had to go out and buy a new red lipstick!  I kid you not.

On a serious note, she’s a total fuck up and a real slap in the face to women.  We simply do not have woman political columinists in this country, they are too rare.  She is taking up valuable real estate on the NY Times oped pages and it really bugs me.  And to ice that cake, they call her a liberal.

Why isn’t Brown delivering the SOU?  Because he’s the most junior of the current Senators, not the POTUS? 
God, she is just acting stupid so as to make all women look stupid and unable to get past the pretty…face in their politics (because, arguably, that is why the NYT publish her.  IMO, of course).

I appreciate your take because I just don’t have the intestinal fortitude to read Dowd’s column. Isn’t this the same woman who eviscerated Al Gore for not embodying her dreams? I guess all politicians must pass the PILF test before she will grace them with her endorsement.

Yeah, at this point, their definition of “liberal” is “Republican who doesn’t Bible thump”.

Yes she is the one who turned Gore into a “girly man”, and she also rode Clinton so fucking hard (at the expense of Monica Lewinsky), that when Lewinsky ran into her in a bar, Lewinsky confronted her about it, and Dowd, who is exactly like any other internet bully, a coward when she’s not behind her computer, mumbled something and wouldn’t look Lewinsky in the eye.

She’s quite a piece of work.

AnglScarlett, it was “Are Men Necessary?”, and I’m sure it was appalling.

She calls Scott Brown ‘the Epic One’?  Seriously?

Dowd seriously needs to get a boyfriend or at least get damn well laid so her sexual issues will stop spilling over into her editorials.  Or better yet, some silver-haired sugar daddy whose vast wealth will allow her to leave the printed word behind and give her NYT space to Elizabeth Warren or Barbara Ehrenreich.

For all her pretentions to being independent & modern, she’s a childless, unmarried middle-aged woman who has completely bought into the idea that there’s something horribly wrong with being a childless, unmarried middle-aged woman.

AnglScartlett, it was “Are Men Necessary?”, and I’m sure it was appalling.

It was indeed…I gave up in disgust about halfway through it, and it now lingers on the bargain shelves at B&N;like a rash.

And MoDo wants Scott Brown to deliver the SotU address because he’s “epic”?  Epic douchebag, maybe…this is the guy who tried to pimp out his daughters during his victory speech and whose campaign identity rested on the fact that he drives A TRUCK.  Be still my heart.

Maybe I should submit a column to Gail Collins about my sexual fantasies? Probably wouldn’t get published, unless I claim to be driven wild by crypto-Republicans who write insane drivel.

I wouldn’t have thought that a lamer creature exists than the suburban dude who thinks he’s somehow badass for driving his spotless pickup truck* from office park to housing development, but there she is, the lady who thinks that it’s hot. I wonder if she’s also turned on by hair plugs, or the scent of Rogaine foam?

*I grew up in the far northern wastes of Upper Michigan, where you hauled stuff with your pickup truck, or at least plowed snow with it. And it was likely rusty and had holes in the box. Some yoopers also perfected building a new box out of wood for an otherwise mostly sound pickup after the box had rusted past the point of diminishing returns.

Dude, there are people turned on by people in stuffed animal costumes and by the sound of balloons popping.  Thinking the suburban dude with the spotless truck is hot is a peculiar fetish, but not the most far-out one there is. 

The question is: What’s a weirder kink?  Mo Dowd being into Scott Brown or this? (Semi-NSFW.)

The only pick ups that are sexy are the ones with union bumper stickers on them.  Now that, I will slow down to check out the driver for.

Maureen Dowd prefers to masturbate while thinking of douchebagy frat boy types over the sexy nerds.

Quelle surprise, since she spent most of 2000 celebrating Shrub and trashing Al Gore.  She spent most of Clinton’s presidency backing Ken Starr too, until the actual Starr report grossed her out.  Dowd is a weathervane; she doesn’t lead Village opinion; she just reflects it.

Oh wow, well, after visting that link Amanda…still a tough call.

I was going to comment on this posting when I realized that Amanda really did say all that I wanted to say.  dddddddddddddddddddddd sftyvjyuv bu;0ij’-trsaeawdfuih;’

Also, my cat needs to stop walking on my keyboard.  Cut it out, Cora!

Why why why did she write that and why why why is the Times paying her for it?

I decided to go with a poll in the next post.

I’d like to get a paying gig at the NY Times but I can’t afford the partial lobotomy.

I don’t know what exactly it says about the judgment of the NYT editorial board that they continue to publish Dowd’s amateur rom-com script treatments, but whatever it is it isn’t good (though at least they have the good sense to edit out her breathless casting suggestions). Seriously, is the NYT op-ed page now desirous of the “I went to see The Ugly Truth on opening weekend” demographic?

Dowd has been doing this since forever. She provides the valuable seventh-grade-catholic-school-atavist perspective on national politics, doncha know.

Why settle for a faux populist when we can have a real one?

Masturbatory exercise aside, what is THIS shit?  Is she calling out Obama for turning his back on the people who elected him to change things?  Of course not, she’s calling anyone who liked Obama an elite who only pretended to be part of a popular movement.

Scott Brown, the teabagger?  TOTES real, fur shure.  No Democrats rejecting a crappy candidate or sending a message that they’re unhappy with the rightward tilt of our leftiest lefterers.  Nope.  Real Amuricans like Scott Brown, believe his message, and wish to subscribe to his newsletter.

Why isn’t he president, again?

“For all her pretentions to being independent & modern, she’s a childless, unmarried middle-aged woman who has completely bought into the idea that there’s something horribly wrong with being a childless, unmarried middle-aged woman.”

...which is exactly the kind of thing you discuss with your therapist, before going to your psychiatrist to increase your dose. 

If you share it with your reading public in an inspiring book talking about coming back to sanity after being on the brink of suicide, fine.  But probably not appropriate on the Opinion pages of the NY Times…

And, of course, if she has to burden the Opinion pages of the NY Times with this dreck, at least she could be honest and just simply say she’d rather screw the white guy…

i lol’d at MikeEss

But probably not appropriate on the Opinion pages of the NY Times…

Keep in mind, the executives spearheading the paper’s 2011 paywall experiment are the same geniuses who came up with “Times Select,” the core premise of which was “serious news addicts are willing to pay a premium to read Mo-Do and Brooksie and Tierney.”

This can’t end well for the Paper of Record.

Um, since when are sexual fantasy considered a good way to choose leaders, or even partners?

In Dowd’s defense, women politicians have been viewed through the lens of “Who’s cares about her stands on the issues—would you do her?” since forever.  Reading her column is like a glimpse into a feverish alternate universe where women are free to objectify men leaders as women have always been objectified.  Not a world I’d want to live in, but still “fascinating” in a Spock like way.

Amanda at 10:
Nothing but my own personal aesthetic judgement. The bear porn person or persons are at least into something weird and different. Dowd’s fantasy is like being an enthusiastic Kenny Loggins fan or something.

And in a further edition of conservative political leaders are the worst people on earth, remember Scooter Libby’s bear porn? Much creepier and non-consensual. These drawings of apparently healthy and joyful human/ursine sex come off very well in comparison.

#24 - true, but I admit that fuckability is a plus in a candidate.  It’s just that I don’t consider many republicans all that fuckable.  I mean, in the 08 election, wasn’t that a no-brainer for a heterosexual woman?  Aren’t sexual fantasies about John McCain even weirder than the teddy bear porn?  Obama definitely has sex appeal.  You show me the woman who wants to do John McCain and I will show you one fucked up person.

And I’m sorry, but even back in the day anyone who found W more fuckable than Gore just has bad taste.  And MoDo did.  She was wetting herself all over the oped pages about that big bad W.

well, not to defend M.D. who writes some very unsatisfying columns, but perhaps she intended satire?

I think we can be sure Obama doesn’t want to go anywhere near that:
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/10/1010087/dowd-talks-presidents-gender-roles-in-sit-down-with-rabbi

Okay ezedawg, she comes off badly there.  But the unpleasant shock for me was the news that Obama has played golf four times with Thomas Friedman.  That guy is an entitled moron.

And, she’s not wrong about the males bonding over golf thing.  That bullshit has infected the business world forever, and it hasn’t gone anywhere.  Yeah yeah you can learn how to play golf and go with them.

They don’t want you there.

Actually, I kinda read that column as being rather tongue-in-cheek. I left that article thinking that she was making fun of people who thought that looks and general fuckability should be a criterion for choosing a leader.

And, she’s not wrong about the males bonding over golf thing.  That bullshit has infected the business world forever, and it hasn’t gone anywhere.  Yeah yeah you can learn how to play golf and go with them.

They don’t want you there.

Actually, my fantasy woman is a scratch golfer. But maybe that’s just me.

IT CAN’T BE SATIRE OR I WOULDN’T BE TYPING LIKE THIS

Um, since when are sexual fantasy considered a good way to choose leaders, or even partners?

You got that right.  I had the hots for Dick Nixon and look how that turned out.

Either she reallymeans this dreck or she is horrible at writing satire.  Either way, why is she being paid to subject the public to this level of crap?

i THINK she was TRYING to make a funny. you know, har har, we elected a guy with no experience! a guy with even less experience would be even better, amirite? joke fail. and attempt at being edgy fail. oy vey, why does this even exist?

Nothing but my own personal aesthetic judgement. The bear porn person or persons are at least into something weird and different. Dowd’s fantasy is like being an enthusiastic Kenny Loggins fan or something.

I’m with you.  Bear porn is far more interesting and understandable.  (I can sort of see how a bear is basically the next step up from Fabio.)  Luckily, the bear is beating Scott Brown handily in the poll.

lol did he really make driving a truck a point of his campaign? dude should try that in texas. the response would be a resounding “so??” peppered with “so does my grandma!”

well, not to defend M.D. who writes some very unsatisfying columns, but perhaps she intended satire?

No, this is her M.O., calling Democrats “pussies” in essence and it is intended to influence elections and is sadly effective.  Look at what happened to Gore, with Dowd in the lead on shaming him for being the kind of nerd she’d like to see have sand kicked in his face while she giggled on the frat boy’s arm.

She’s trying to send the message the Obama is a “pussy” while hiding behind being tongue-in-cheek.  This is what she does.  Seriously, I was just so annoyed I thought I’d have to shame her for this, not that she’ll a) read this or b) have any shame about it.

“Look at what happened to Gore, with Dowd in the lead on shaming him for being the kind of nerd she’d like to see have sand kicked in his face while she giggled on the frat boy’s arm.”

That is most succinct description of her 2000 election columns I ever saw.  That’s exactly what she did, and it became THE narrative of the election.

Actually, from what I can discern, she is very prickly about criticism.  Just as you would expect a hugely insecure person to be.  As far as her seeing this, they already closed down comments on her page at the NY Times or I would have posted a link there.  I just emailed it to her though with this message: 

Hi Maureen,

Here is a link to a great piece Amanda Marcotte wrote about your latest sterling column.  I think you’ll love it!

You rule, Angl.

Oh yeah, MoDo knows her faux populists from her real ones.  She learned how to tell the difference from David Brooks, during their many trips to the Applebee’s salad bar to observe the hoi polloi in captivity.

I’d like to get a paying gig at the NY Times but I can’t afford the partial lobotomy.

You just made me think of that obnoxious TV commercial pimping the NY Times Weekender in which some pompous douchebag says in the middle of the commercial:

“The best journalists in the world work for the Times... and there’s no debating that.”

Ick.

Donna for the win.

Angi, I comment on nearly every one of her columns and the comments almost never make it to the website. She’s such a trainwreck: she’s the very embodiment of what a lot of men fear and loathe about women.

But I read this column twice and still couldn’t see where Amanda got “real men don’t go down” from it. I did read that Obama has a “body man,” however.

If I cared enough to give her the page hits, I’d just leave it at “As porn, I give it a C-.  As political analysis it rates a F-.  As prose, at least you ran it through a spell checker.”

Oh, fela, I was making a crass joke about her fascination with inexperience as a plus.

“Look at what happened to Gore, with Dowd in the lead on shaming him for being the kind of nerd she’d like to see have sand kicked in his face while she giggled on the frat boy’s arm.”

That is most succinct description of her 2000 election columns I ever saw.  That’s exactly what she did, and it became THE narrative of the election.

Absolutely.  The only reason the 2000 election was even close enough for Shrub to steal it is because America had become convinced that Bush was the everyday guy we wanted to have a beer with, and Gore was the smug and pretentious nerd.

They tried desperately to brand Obama similarly as an effete, elitist, geeky, wimpy liberal with all of the arugula references, but he was just too smooth on the stump for them to make the image stick.  Well that, and the fact that John McCain appeared senile and cranky, Sarah Palin was a really mean and less intelligent version of Dan Quayle, and America had finally had more than enough of the guy we wanted to have a beer with eight years earlier.

Truth be told, it would have been tough for any Democrat to lose the 2008 election in hindsight - John Edwards likely would have, but ONLY because his personal indiscretions would have been revealed midsummer and would have probably destroyed his campaign.  Not to take away from Obama’s impressive campaign or the historic nature of his election, but the fact, 2008 presented the perfect climate for us to elect our first black president.  The Onion summed it up perfectly with their headline on November 5, 2008, the day after Obama’s election: “Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress”.  Not a knock on Obama, more a comment that white America was being a little too self-congratulatory in crediting itself for becoming “post-racial”.

You just made me think of that obnoxious TV commercial pimping the NY Times Weekender in which some pompous douchebag says in the middle of the commercial:

“The best journalists in the world work for the Times… and there’s no debating that.”

Ick.

I think about that commercial every time I see the Times mentioned lately…  And how iirc they had to put glasses on that guy to make it seem like a smart thing to say.

But I read this column twice and still couldn’t see where Amanda got “real men don’t go down” from it. I did read that Obama has a “body man,” however.

Bush and Clinton both had “body men” too.  It’s just another name for personal assistant.

Reggie Love is Obama’ body man - he’s the 20-something handsome bald black guy who is literally with Obama everywhere he goes, carrying Obama’s notes and Nicorette gum for him.  He was a Duke University basketball player and political science major, and played for the Blue Devils when they won the 2001 NCAA Final Four.  He shares an office with Katie Johnson, Obama’s 20-something personal secretary, and their office is literally right next to the Oval Office.  Even though the high-level Administration staff is mostly middle-aged (though Robert Gibbs is only in his mid-30s), this White House has a ton of young blood working for it.  The speech you’ll here tonight in the SOTU will likely have been written primarily by his 28 year old head speechwriter, Jon Favreau.

I think this post completely misses the point of Dowd’s column. It has nothing to do with “what gives Dowd a squish.”  It’s about the cult of celebrity and the flavor-of-the-month orientation of political coverage in this country.

Too bad she keeps disguising her opinion as humor and setting the agenda for the mainstream media in describing Democrats as unmanly.  Or maybe she would get away with it this once.

MoDo is an idiot.  She’s just a younger version of Peggy Noonan - both of whom seem to be doing a liquid lunch - probably beginning at 10am.

Her column was just about as stoopid as Nooner’s swooning over Commander Codpiece in his flightsuit or Tweety blithering about the manly smell of Fred Thompson.

I think this post completely misses the point of Dowd’s column. It has nothing to do with “what gives Dowd a squish.” It’s about the cult of celebrity and the flavor-of-the-month orientation of political coverage in this country.

And I think we can lay part of the blame for that on Ms. Dowd and her 7th grade mean girl gossip columns.  Of course, she would never have the self-awareness to realize it.

Her column was just about as stoopid as Nooner’s swooning over Commander Codpiece in his flightsuit or Tweety blithering about the manly smell of Fred Thompson.

Tweety is a tougher one to figure out.

While it’s true that he loved bloviating about Bush’s flightsuit machismo and Thompson’s manly aroma, he also let us all know that the sound of Barack Obama’s voice sent a tingle up his leg… perhaps one the creepiest things I’ve ever heard come out of the mouth of a TV talking head.  He was trying to pay Obama a compliment for his great oratorical skills, but it just came off as a really, really bizarre thing to say.  And PUMAs and Republicans alike pounded Obama supporters endlessly over Matthews’ “leg tingle” remark, even though we were probably just as squicked out by it as they were.

Dowd’s column is satire.  really bad satire, and maybe a little indulgently Freudian satire, but still satire.

But also, largely a waste of space.

oh gosh, modo’s been half-assed for about 20 years now, that she continues so is not a surprise. rather, it’s a comfort, in that “hobgoblin of a boring consistancy” kind of way. wetting her panties over some big, macho, manly man repuglican is nothing new either, she and frank rich were sharing vibrators over bush for years.

the guilty pleasure of an irish catholic girl upbringing i’m afraid.

It isn’t satire.  It a conservative “joke”.  Where they say something and when people point out is offensive or crazy they claim they were joking and everyone has no sense of humor!  Maureen Dowd thinks everyone has the same opinion of her Aarin Sorkin does.  No Maureen we are not secretly pining for you as the one who got away and after fucking some talentless 22 year old actress wannabe come crawling back.  We don’t think about you.  Ever.

“Sexy nerd”? Isn’t that like sexy geek, sexy dork, sexy dweeb? A contradiction in terms, in other words?

Does her phrase “sunny populism” make anyone else think Dowd is having some sort of weird Reagan flashback?

“Sexy nerd”? Isn’t that like sexy geek, sexy dork, sexy dweeb? A contradiction in terms, in other words?

No, there’s plenty of sexy nerds out there.  Just think of Rupert Giles from Buffy.  If you’re a straight guy, (or a lesbian), think Willow Rosenberg.

Dowd seriously needs to get a boyfriend or at least get damn well laid so her sexual issues will stop spilling over into her editorials.

This calls for a liberal male who simply oozes working class sexuality, one who knows how to take a women such as Dowd and drive any thoughts of politics out of head with hot, hot faux-conservative lovin’, somebody ruggedly handsome, charming, funny, intelligent and simple devastating in bed…

Thank God I am not that man.

Dowd will never get Brown away from his Girl with the Curious Hands

Yep.  That’s Mrs. Brown in that vid!

The sexy nerd is a well-established type.  Sometimes you hear about the “sexy librarian”, but that has a specific female connotation I was trying to avoid.  Obama blows a lot of Villagers minds because they haven’t ever really considered that there are such thing as sexy nerds, which is most surely is.  Part of the problem is racism, and part of the problem is they’ve defined down sexy so they don’t know it when they see it.

PiaToR, her dream man needs to be deaf as well, she has a voice that could melt tin cans if it was used in the wrong way.

Sometimes you hear about the “sexy librarian”, but that has a specific female connotation I was trying to avoid.

Hey!

I mean, Giles?

LOL!  Good one, Phoe.  As Fry says in “Futurama”: “Well, a giant brain is nothing more than a giant nerd, and what better place for a giant nerd than the library?”

Well, we seem to have found the counterpart for those idiots letting their penises make political decisions about Sarah Palin.

I would like to state for the record that my long-term support for the Labour Party in NZ had nothing, n-o-t-h-i-n-g to do with sexual fantasies about Helen Clark.  Dear God, even the thought of it is making my testicles retreat…

DTG (51):

But I read this column twice and still couldn’t see where Amanda got “real men don’t go down” from it. I did read that Obama has a “body man,” however.
Bush and Clinton both had “body men” too.  It’s just another name for personal assistant.

Think Dulé Hill’s character from The West Wing

Then again, if Scott Brown is being impersonated by Jon Hamm, as he is on this week’s SNL, then I can see the reason for MoDo’s excitement.

What makes me so depressed about this, is I now realize why so many of my reactionary co-workers were jazzed about Scott Brown and clueless as to why I despise Sarah Palin. They clearly think an election is a choice between who is hawter in their infantile and repressed sexual fantasies.