Dances With Wolfowitz (Dowd alert)

The New York Times ^ | 04/09/03 | Maureen Dowd

[laz17]

Yawn. The latest installment of The Days and Nights of Maureen Dowd. It feels like just another rerun.

[Saundra Duffy]

Maureen is a bitter, dried-up has-been. GO AWAY ALREADY!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Uhm, not all women get over old boyfriends. Some are psychos.

[laz17]

Poor Maureen hears her biological clock ticking. Tick... tick... tick... Never has a columnist so thoroughly externalized her shallowness and projected it upon the world in order to wage war with her inner demons.

[Kenno]

She's like John Hinckley Jr. trying to impress Jodi Foster by shooting Reagan, except that the President is G.W. Bush and it's Michelle Douglas she's trying to impress. I hope the Secret Service doesn't let her too close to the President. :)

[Hildy]

OK, I hear ya! Are you talking from experience??????

[montag813]

The Times's David Sanger reported that when a Bush aide stepped into the Oval Office to tell the president recently that his hard-boiled defense secretary had been shaking a fist at Syria, Mr. Bush smiled and said one word: "Good."

This (if true) is the best part of the piece. Let us hope the word is backed by force when our job in Iraq is done.

[kylaka]

GIVE IT UP..women get over old boyfriends. ENOUGH with the Michael Douglas thing

You might think so, I don't.

[tjg]

"women get over old boyfriends."

Yet one more way women are up on men.

[leadhead]

"women get over old boyfriends."

So why do all her columns sound like "Play Misty for Me"??

...and I was old when I saw it.

[Russell Scott]

The Upper East Side's original useless idiot.

[driftless]

Ha ha if only that were true. No I think Mighty Mo has the typical upper-class disdain for Dubya that I'm sure is rife in the rich enclaves of Manhattan's upper-West Side. Bush simply isn't one of them...thank God! The irony of it all is that one hundred years ago the likes of Mo would have been shunned by the snobs as being gutter-Irish with pretensions of rising in the Wasp-dominated society of that time. And of course the further irony is that George, being a descendant from Wasp elites, is much more one of the boys from the wrong side of the tracks in his thinking than these would-be social climbers like Dowd. George wants to destroy our enemies...the likes of Dowd want to talk them to death.

[benjaminthomas]

You didn't paste the entire text of the original article. In the version on the NYT website, she includes the following passage after "The administration already sounds as triumphalist as Lawrence at his giddiest."

Today's satirical Onion headline reads: "Bush Subconsciously Sizes Up Spain for Invasion."

I think it's telling that Dowd is reduced to actually quoting The Onion (!) in the New York Times. More to the point, since all her (and her colleagues') dire predictions about Bush and this war have been emphatically contradicted by actual events, she now has to chide the administration about things she thinks will occur. It's her version of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em". She can't bring herself to "join 'em", so she is now going with "if you can't beat 'em, criticize something they haven't done yet, and set the bar so high they will never be able to succeed again."

If you check out Tom Friedman's column on the same website, you will see the same phenomenon. It basically says that, while we have won a stunning victory, and liberated Iraq from unbearable misery, there are still some hungry people there -- we better fix that quick or we will have failed.

I suppose there is some satisfaction in having even their grudging, or more accurately, hidden, acknowledgement of our success. It is still frustrating to see the utter hypocrisy in their stances now as compared to when Billy-boy was at the helm.

[Fury]

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were determined to lead America out of its post-Vietnam, post-Mogadishu queasiness with force and casualties, to change the culture to accept war as a more natural part of a superpower's role in the world.

This is what I love about the zany writings of this woman. She writes as though she has an inside scoop on what Rumsfeld and Cheney think - as if she had interviewed them or gone to a dinner party. She has no such sources, she is not connected. She is barren.

The delicious fact is that she makes up this tripe in her mind - I'll call it Dowdland. In Dowdland, you always have the trendy or "nuanced" answers because you don't need to apply critical thinking to your premises. "Proofs of logic" become "poofs of logic". In Dowdland, Cheney and Rumsfeld can say and think anythying you want them to. Her columns become mainly what makes her feel good about the world and society instead of having a shred of rationality in regards to the issues of the day. In Dowdland, feelings really do triumph over facts, logic and reasoning.

Their strategy might be described as Black Hawk Up.

This is just a disgusting statement, not worthy of a more detailed response.

And so it goes in Dowdland.

[Fury]

More to the point, since all her (and her colleagues') dire predictions about Bush and this war have been emphatically contradicted by actual events

You are describing Dowdland...

[jriemer]

Do you get the feeling that Maureen Dowd's continued yappings are becoming as shrill and unintelligible as the creatures from "Mars Attacks!"?

Bitterness is like acid...

And there's a growing resemblance.

[Fury]

Victor Davis Hanson has responded to Dowd's comments:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/889860/posts?page=1

[Timesink]

Catherine's looking a little ... beefy.

[Timesink]

Catherine is a purefied gene pool - why did she let her spawn be polluted by the graven Grampa?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. (Not that I see what's so "pure" about her.)

[Bluntpoint]

"shrill and unintelligible as the creatures from "Mars Attacks!"?

She is hitting the "Eleanor Cliff squeal" of total irrelevance.