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I Did Do It (Dowd's Back, and Slamming Clarence Thomas)
New York Times ^ | October 7, 2007 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 10/07/2007 10:29:59 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin

October 7, 2007 Op-Ed Columnist I Did Do It By MAUREEN DOWD

Washington

O.K., folks, you want the truth?

The whole truth and nothing but?

After all this time, you’re still dying to see the mystery solved?

Fine. I did it. Everything A. said — let’s just use the initial because it’s still hard for me to speak the name of my victim and tormentor — was true.

I did what I had to do and I didn’t care if it ruined A.’s life. I didn’t even care if people thought it was obscene.

I knew I was misusing my position, but I enjoyed having that kind of raw power over A. and saying the things I said. It made me tingle all over. I’m not going to deny that.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anitahill; clarencethomas; dowd; hatesblackpeople; libel; maureendowd; stalinisttactics
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Oh my - let the hatred flow
1 posted on 10/07/2007 10:30:05 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

in light of her being a Clinton apologist, this makes me puke. witch face needs to get her head examined.


2 posted on 10/07/2007 10:31:08 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (www.daypo.net/test-iraq-war.html)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Even for MoDo, she’s confusing. WTF is she talking about!?


3 posted on 10/07/2007 10:31:37 AM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Yeah, let's just use the initials.

A.H. fit both of these beasts perfectly

4 posted on 10/07/2007 10:32:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Arec Barrwin

poor barren unfulfilled woman....not so homely....she could have found happiness but instead chose to let her demons rule her


5 posted on 10/07/2007 10:33:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (Behind the lines in Vichy Nashville)
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To: Arec Barrwin

It’s not worth the pictures to read her articles. I liked it better when she was pay per view.


6 posted on 10/07/2007 10:33:56 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I find it incredible that with blatant attacks like this, decent people have no recourse for slanderous/libelous attacks them?!?

I’m normally not litigious, but I’d make an exception if I were Justice Thomas, or Rush Limbaugh, or Ann Coulter...
and so on, and so on, and so on. :-)


7 posted on 10/07/2007 10:34:49 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud RUSH REPUBLICAN! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

what a mean bitch


8 posted on 10/07/2007 10:36:21 AM PDT by SShultz460
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To: pillut48

9 posted on 10/07/2007 10:37:27 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Old Sarge

The 2000 election.


10 posted on 10/07/2007 10:38:28 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Arec Barrwin
It won't be said that I don't respect rules.

11 posted on 10/07/2007 10:38:30 AM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Clarence Thomas possesses more integrity in his little finger than Dowd has in her entire body.

I worried at the time the Thomas interview aired on 60 Minutes that it would bring the left’s slime machine onto a new target. Unfortunately, they didn’t disappoint.


12 posted on 10/07/2007 10:38:40 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (We are the people.)
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To: Old Sarge
WTF is she talking about!?

She's writing from the point of view of how SHE thinks Clarence Thomas thinks. Very mean-spirited, unfair column, but it's standard MoDo.
13 posted on 10/07/2007 10:38:45 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: SShultz460
what a mean bitch

It's no surprise that Michael Douglass dumped her. For anyone... MoDo, you're hatred shows a deep ugliness. In your case, that ugliness goes all the way to the bone.

Mark

14 posted on 10/07/2007 10:39:01 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Yeah Maureen, and Juantia Broadrick was lying when she said clinton raped her. And all those other women who he groped or assaulted, they were lying too.

The difference between the two is that only Hill made such bald accusations against Thomas, but against the impeached former president, there was a phalanx of political operatives arrayed to fight the women - the many women. And there were stories of more from clinton's bodyguards in Arkansas.

But to hack white fiction writers, conservative blacks are uncle toms and inauthentic as blacks and deserving of ridicule. And white politician rapist impeached former presidents - if they support abortion then their sins should be ignored.

15 posted on 10/07/2007 10:39:06 AM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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To: Arec Barrwin
This woman is totally demented.

Michael Douglas doesn't know just how lucky he is.

leni

16 posted on 10/07/2007 10:40:13 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
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To: Arec Barrwin

The left still considers Justice Thomas just an “uppity n*gger”.

Haven’t heard much from mo lately, I assumed she was sunk in alcoholic depression and unable to write. Maybe the NYT is having her columns ghost-written.


17 posted on 10/07/2007 10:40:41 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Arec Barrwin
MoDo attempts her own version of a hi-tech lynching?
18 posted on 10/07/2007 10:41:37 AM PDT by OCC
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To: Dahoser; eyedigress

I’d like to thank the two of you for your prompt compliance with Standard FR Posting Protocols.


19 posted on 10/07/2007 10:42:25 AM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Her lies flow like water over a fall.

20 posted on 10/07/2007 10:42:50 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: SShultz460

Ditto!!!


21 posted on 10/07/2007 10:43:25 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (~*~ All we have to do is save the Cheerleader?!?!? ~*~I don't even like the cheerleader!!!!! ~*~)
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To: Arec Barrwin
re: # 1

I don't think I have ever seen such a perfectly, without-a-doubt winnable libel case.

Justice Thomas should sue the bitch for that ...custom-made motor home .... and everything else she owns. She deserves it.

22 posted on 10/07/2007 10:43:39 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (.... when you really start to pay attention, you automatically become a conservative.)
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To: Old Sarge

Just waiting for the chance. It’s been awhile! :^)


23 posted on 10/07/2007 10:44:31 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Arec Barrwin

Wow, this racist personal attack even as the lamestream media try to pillory Rush & O’Reilly ....


24 posted on 10/07/2007 10:46:50 AM PDT by dodger
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To: Arec Barrwin
Dowd is a bigoted pig. She is Exhibit C on why-the-Times-is-not-really-a-newspaper-anymore. Yes, she's as rotten as the dumpster behind the Crab House at Ocean City on a really hot day.

But she has to be only Exhibit C because room has to be left for Frank Rich and at least one other paid, professional liars who grace the pages of the Times.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "A Toe-Tapping Good Time"

Heads up -- my announcement of running for Congress in 2008 will appear here, Monday afternoon.

25 posted on 10/07/2007 10:46:58 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I miss when you had to subscribe to see these rants.

No one was willing to do so, so they ranted to themselves. The rest of us had peace.


26 posted on 10/07/2007 10:47:23 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.standwithrush.com/)
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To: I see my hands
Her lies flow like water over a fall.

I disagree - a waterfall is a pretty sight to see. I would say something like:

Her lies flow like sewage over a wineglass.

27 posted on 10/07/2007 10:47:44 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: eyedigress

Yes a bitter used up Bad Boy Loving FemNag. Who whines about Men going after younger Women. She whored her younger years around with Celebs. And to late figures out that the Feminists were wrong. She should have settled down with a decent Man when she was young. Bitter, alone, does she have Cats? Dumped by Michael Douglas for Catherine Zeta Jones. Who would blame him? Old and Bitter and spiteful or younger and fertile and pleasant?

MoDowd is a bitter Spinster.


28 posted on 10/07/2007 10:48:13 AM PDT by Khankrumthebulgar
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To: Arec Barrwin

29 posted on 10/07/2007 10:50:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Classic case of liberal projection.

All the things that she projects onto Clarence Thomas are the motives that drove Anita Hill to claw at the character of a fine man.

30 posted on 10/07/2007 10:51:06 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, now on his way back the U.S.A.!!!)
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To: Arec Barrwin
I’m sorry, I don’t waste my time on Screech Al-Dowd. I am here for the Catherine Zeta Jones picts.
31 posted on 10/07/2007 10:51:18 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/ vrs the "Worse than Watergate Congress")
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To: Khankrumthebulgar

She doesn’t accept the fact that Men and Women are different. She’s a brainwashed inner-child of a bitch.


32 posted on 10/07/2007 10:51:53 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Dowd is a small minded and mean spirited wench. The world would be a better place if she crawled back inside a bottle of scotch and drowned in her misery.
33 posted on 10/07/2007 10:52:05 AM PDT by peeps36 (OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Indeed, what a hack job.

They have several hack jobs with the exact same key words. I wonder if they hand out ‘key phrases’ over there and ask for articles from all their dirt dishers.


34 posted on 10/07/2007 10:53:05 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Jim Noble

I saw that line and that pic is about 2 pixels above it! LOL


35 posted on 10/07/2007 10:53:27 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Old Sarge

She’s talking about her and the rest of the delusional Democrats who can’t get over Clarence Thomas of the Florida vate that Al Core failed at steeling. Media Whore!


36 posted on 10/07/2007 10:53:53 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ontap

Make that vote and stealing.


37 posted on 10/07/2007 10:54:47 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Arec Barrwin

There’s a foul ‘pen’ blowing
Posted: July 8, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Flatulence generally refers to gases generated in the intestines or stomach and expulsed through that end of the posterior that graces a saddle. Unless you are Maureen Dowd ... then said gases are expulsed through the pen (or mouth – you choose) and are no less a poisonous, asphyxiating irritant to the atmosphere.

Dowd’s June 25, 2003, column, “Could Thomas Be Right?” is one of the most morally opprobrious journalistic attacks against a public figure I have yet to read. But having said that, I admit it certainly isn’t out of character for Maureen Dowd.

In a day when black children can recite the rap lyrics from dozens of so-called musicians, but can barely recite the alphabet, have minimal math and science skills, Dowd castigates Justice Clarence Thomas as being “an angry, bitter, self-pitying victim.”

More...

I am weary of the institutionalized racism, the pitting of blacks against blacks and the academic arrogance of the Sandra Day O’Connors, Maureen Dowds, et al.

The black community doesn’t need affirmative action – it, in large part, needs a jolt to the system. Black youth must be reminded of the adage those of my generation heard from infancy: “You have to work harder than the next man to get ahead.” Today, I realize “the next man” my grandmother was referring to were racist liberals, who would block our path to self sufficiency.

http://tinyurl.com/3af8dg

Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C.


38 posted on 10/07/2007 10:55:55 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Arec Barrwin

What can we expect from a female who hates men.

She in particular hates black men who have the audacity to act like real (=conservative) men.


39 posted on 10/07/2007 10:58:31 AM PDT by Mrs.Z
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To: kcvl
Worth Repeating:

Today, I realize “the next man” my grandmother was referring to were racist liberals, who would block our path to self sufficiency

40 posted on 10/07/2007 10:59:16 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Arec Barrwin
I’m trying to see the connection to reality here, but it just isn’t com.... Oh, wait, now I get it!!! This is how Moreen would have done it if she had had the chance.

Now the column makes sense! It’s called ‘projection’.

41 posted on 10/07/2007 10:59:20 AM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: Arec Barrwin
this is not Maureen Dowd


42 posted on 10/07/2007 11:01:52 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Maureen Dowd isn’t the only liberal elite with a hated of Judge Thomas...

Clarence Thomas Confirms CNN’s Toobin Never Spoke to Him; Toobin Calls Thomas ‘Nut’

By Tim Graham | October 4, 2007 - 13:05 ET

During his Monday smackdown on the Laura Ingraham radio show, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin declined to say yes or no when Laura asked him if he had ever met or interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas before he claimed the Justice was “furious all the time.” Toobin suggested Laura should ask Thomas. In a soundbite Ingraham aired at the top of the 10 am hour on Thursday, after his hour-long interview was done, Thomas confirmed that he granted no interview to Toobin. Thomas said he “would have no clue” who Toobin was if he saw him on the street.

Deep into his Monday interview on NPR’s Diane Rehm show, Toobin explained the difference between Justice Thomas and Justice Antonin Scalia. Thomas was “a nut.” He added at show’s end that Thomas’s legal views were “highly unusual and extreme.” He also predicted that if elected president, Hillary Clinton would nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, a “political masterstroke” for Hillary since Obama would be an “unassailable nominee.”

When a caller from Texas asked if Thomas was competent enough to be on the Court, both Toobin and NPR’s other guest, Jeffrey Rosen of The New Republic, agreed he was competent – but Thomas was a nut:

TOOBIN: I think he’s perfectly competent. I don’t think that is the issue. I think what matters about these justices is what their ideologies are, and he is the most conservative justice to serve on the court, I think, since the 1930s, but is he capable –

REHM, sounding stunned: More so than Scalia?

TOOBIN: Oh, much more than Scalia. I was at a synagogue where Justice Scalia was giving a speech not too long ago and someone asked him to compare your judicial philosophy and Justice Thomas’s, and he talked for a while, and he said, ‘well, look, I’m a textualist. I’m an originalist, but I’m not a nut.’ And I think that sums up a little bit the difference between the two. Justice Thomas believes that much of the New Deal is unconstitutional. Justice Scalia doesn’t.

ROSEN: Diane, you’re looking shocked!

REHM: Wow, yeah!

http://tinyurl.com/2ovb3q

NO BIAS IN THE ‘NEWS’/s


43 posted on 10/07/2007 11:01:52 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Arec Barrwin

I read the excerpt and just grimaced. THIS is how bad the New York Times has become?

Really. Forget about the radical left-wing politics and just read that excerpt. Then try to remember the reputation the NY Times once had, back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The paper has become a generic Daily Collegian! My, how the mighty have fallen.


44 posted on 10/07/2007 11:01:52 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Arec Barrwin

dowd is just another bitter lib/dem a-h licking woman puke!!!!


45 posted on 10/07/2007 11:01:55 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: Lancey Howard
Attention NY Slimes.

Please lock Maureen Dowd back up behind Timesselect.

46 posted on 10/07/2007 11:04:35 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Not the sort of person I’d like to tailgate with, listen to Marvin Gaye with, share Ripple or a Scotch and Drambuie or a blackberry brandy with — if I were still drinking.

If this screed is the best she can do sober, perhaps she should go back to drinking.

47 posted on 10/07/2007 11:05:17 AM PDT by cpdiii (Roughneck, (Oil Field Trash and Proud of It) Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Dowd - another dinosaur journalist with a dinosaur philosophy trying to stay important.


48 posted on 10/07/2007 11:05:24 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: eyedigress

49 posted on 10/07/2007 11:05:40 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

It’s a boy!


50 posted on 10/07/2007 11:08:23 AM PDT by eyedigress
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