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themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 393
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 10:32 am: |     |
I don't get her. She tears into H Dean's wife in her column for being a doctor and not wearing makeup. I don't get it. I thought people like Dowd were attacking hypocrisy and emptyheadedness and Washington phoniness. What's so terrible about being a doctor and not wearing makeup? It would be nice to have a non-robot as first lady, I think. And someone not as "constroversial" as Hillary Clinton. She seems mentally healthy to me, in that she wishes to avoid the limelight and she has a sense of who she is.
I think Dowd just thinks she's smarter than everyone. Her comedy has been going downhill for years. If I were a woman, I'd feel betrayed by this. She'll mock Anne Coulter for being cheezy and bleached out, and then mock a vermont doctor for looking like a vermont doctor. What the hell? |
mfpark
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 173
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 10:34 am: | |
Dowd has become too enamored with being a shock-jock, like her friend Imus. |
Carl Thompson
Citizen
Username: Topcat
Post Number: 38
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 11:05 am: | |
Here is Maureen Dowd’s photo from her online bio at the Times website. Dig that lipstick! Any chance she’s little insecure about other women who don’t care about makeup?
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 706
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 11:19 am: | |
She's bitter, I'd wager single, losing the battle with age and gargles with bourbon. That's the root of her problems. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2723
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 12:17 pm: | |
The Maureen Dowd column was really strange this morning. If she was trying to parody people like our friend Don the Cowboy, it didn't come out right.
In any event, I thought that CJC's "gargles with bourbon" line sounded familiar, and it was. About a year ago, that was part of a rant by rush Limbaugh, about something Dowd had written about the President. Among the choice bits:
quote:Limbaugh continued: "It's obvious Maureen Dowd hasn't gotten over her breakup with Michael Douglas who she thinks is a real American president but he didn't do anything but utter the words written for him by Aaron Sorkin and stand where someone director told him to stand and have his hair coifed by somebody who knew what to do, and then he blew it by running off with Catherine Zeta-Jones, leaving Maureen Dowd in the lurch. All she's got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it's showing on her columns."
Source (unfortunately): The Drudge Report.
There is no indication as to how much "Hillbilly Heroin" Rush was jacked up on, at the time he penned that screed. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 710
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 12:19 pm: | |
It was a great line. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 869
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 1:54 pm: | |
I was really disappointed by her column today. Even when she's mocking people I don't like, I often feel like she's working harder to be cleverly mean than to make a point. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 457
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 2:28 pm: | |
I looked up "banal," in the dictionary and a photo of a Maureen Dowd column was next to the entry.
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 718
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 3:33 pm: | |
She'd fit right in here. |
virgilian
Citizen
Username: Virgilian
Post Number: 222
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:23 pm: | |
Wow. So cjc when a man ruffles your fur, do you attribute it to his being hard up for love, recklessly let out of his cage to have convictions by the lack of the satisfying pleasures of a good woman in his bedroom? |
virgilian
Citizen
Username: Virgilian
Post Number: 223
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:37 pm: | |
Or do you just mean that powerful women should be subdued by constant sex? |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 878
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 10:26 pm: | |
I think everyone should be. Also, every person in the world should get at least a 10-minute backrub every day. You'd have world peace in about a week. |
virgilian
Citizen
Username: Virgilian
Post Number: 229
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 10:51 pm: | |
Behave! |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 730
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 1:28 pm: | |
I don't apply that analysis to everyone who ruffles my feathers, virgil. Just to Ms.-erable Dowd. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
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