Posted on 11/03/2009 9:07:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the “21” Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a “reporterette,” to use a Limbaugh coinage.
He was charming, in a shy, awkward, lonely-guy way. Not a man of the people. He arrived in a chauffeured town car and ordered $70-an-ounce Beluga, Porterhouse and 1990 Corton-Charlemagne.
But he was not a Neanderthal, though he did have a cold and blew his nose in his napkin. He talked about Chopin’s Polonaise No. 6, C.S. Lewis and how much he loved the end of the movie “Love Story.”
In those days, he called himself a “harmless little fuzzball.” He’s a lot less harmless now. I went on to columny, as my pal Bill Safire called it, and Rush went on to calumny.
As he and Sarah Palin conduct their auto-da-fé of moderate Republicans — “Moderates by definition have no principles,” he told his radio audience on Monday — Limbaugh is more than ever the face of his party, as Rahm Emanuel said.
He’s also the mouth.
Limbaugh is right that Democrats tend to dither too much. They’re always wondering if they’re doing the right thing, indulging in on-the-one-hand, on-the-other paralysis by analysis, seeing, as James Carville put it, “six sides to the Pentagon.”
President Obama will have to step it up on jobs and fixing the deficit if he wants to block conservatives from stoking the anger of Americans who only see a recovery on Wall Street, especially given Republicans’ inroads Tuesday night.
But the tactics of Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney & Fille are more cynical: They spin certainty, ignoring their side’s screw-ups, and they exploit patriotism, labeling all critics as traitors.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Are all “journalists” transsexuals?
I love that rule.
Catt-eh, eh, what.
MoDo, you are an ignorant slut.
Mo, just because Rush has a huge ego doesn’t mean he can’t point that out in someone else, just as in the same way it’s OK for you to say someone else is a depressed, dried up old skank....
I only check in on these dowd posts to see pictures of Catherine.
You! You feath ffreak junkie. Maureen Shroud! Take the nbeedle out from between your toes.
A “true” douche bag.
Err...uhh...Katherine.
Who are we calling Narcissists?
Well not the columnists at the New York Times - parish the thought....
Thank goodness for that rule.
>>reporterette<<
He has grown — now, they are “News-babes.”
And you ain’t one no more, Mo.
Nuff Said :)
Angry spinster with a keyboard, clinging, clinging, clinging to whatever scraps of relevancy remain.
That one never gets old! I’m just here for the pictures, dammit!!
Much rather have Rush as the face of my party than Rahm.
I was going to say streetwalker but yes what a waste.
Rules is rules.
Sorry Maureen, but if Obama isn’t a Narcissist they should just remove the word from the dictionary. And your hatred for Rush can’t change tat.
I will: Maureen Dowd, another K Street whore working to destroy Capitalism with the syphilis of Marxism.
I love FreeRepublic!
Wow, Maureen Dowd, great anecdote.
Here’s another anecdote, from me: One time 10 years ago, I drew a picture of Maureen Dowd on some toilet paper. Then I wiped my a** with it.
oy vey
I can’t wait til Rush gets a hold of this tomorrow.
I love her posts because of the pictures they bring.
Even a chickenhawk like Rush should remember how well that worked in Vietnam, or in the early years of Iraq. The founding fathers designated a civilian as commander in chief for a reason.
Oh...
...my.
Such breathtaking ignorance. It's as though she were streaking her obliviousness to recorded, black letter history.
The (US) strat in Vietnam was too often micromanaged by the Dems in Congress and by Robert McNamara; and, in the early years of Iraq, we were spread thinly due to Clintonian military cuts, and also that Afghanistan thingy that NYT fools have alternated so consistently for, against, for, against...
Ms. Dowd, fact checking is such a burdensome task, is it not? It's so much easier just to make stuff up, and know your reader will not care, so long as it fits the fifth column template
.
Proof that the Pulitzer Prize is not worth the paper it’s printed on.
He's almost always got a cold. Constantly sucking snot on the air. I figure it's due to the cigars, and he probably spends too much time indoors in air conditioned rooms. I've always found too much time in air conditioning makes me sick. Going from cold to hot, cold to hot. I hated working in an office in summer time for that reason.
Reads like she still has a tingle for Rush. I hope this year Rush sends her a little Christmas present that he
contemplate doing a few years ago on his show.
What a nasty b*tch. How boring is it to still be pissing on Bush's pantleg?
She went for a bridge too far here. Democrats don't give a rip about what's right or wrong. Neither do they care about what works or doesn't work or they wouldn't propose the bills they do.
“He more or less raised himself and came to terms with his Oedipal demons on his own, and he radiates a hard-won maturity.”
Pop psychology at it worst: Oprah style. Dowd and Dr. Phil should meet on the Jerry Springer Show. It’s the only time they’ll have any credibility.
She dresses like a hooker.
really? seriously??
i'm trying to remember the last time a liberal 'wondered' if abortion was the right thing to do for the baby.
oh, i know... it was just the other day... just before a director of planned parenthood quit.
abortion - the only 'successful' liberal program since the 60s... 45m dead babies and counting. nice work liberals
Ha! I don't believe her.
“harmless little fuzzball.”
It's "lovable", not harmless.
“What a waste of oxygen she is.”
She probably has a standing offer of “$5,000 if you’ll take me out and let a news guy take a pic.”
Man, Stop that stuff!! Ive got to go to bed!! I dream enough already without seeing that!!
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
Sometimes a spurned woman's projections and transferences are too obvious.
Where's Camille Paglia when she's needed? Now there would be a cat fight.
I hope Rush does not mention this dried up douche bag at all. It would kill her...if Rush mentions her it suddenly makes her relevant again.
That's THE RULE ;)
Maureen flatters herself and Democrats. When is the last time Democrats agonized over doing the right thing, or wasted a second on considering the consequences of bad decisions? It’s been longer than the last time Maureen tried to write something because it was true and not because it served some idiotic political purpose. It’s been years. How about it Maureen, is your child king working out like you planned? Are you ready to put on your kneepads for him?
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