I Can't Take It Anymore (Dowd alert!)

The New York Times ^ | 09/09/2001 | Maureen Dowd

[SiliconValleyGuy]

I thought I had heard it all. It looks like there's more to hear.

[billorites]

"I'm sick and tired and I (yawn) can't take it anymore."

Summer doldrums for Maureen.

[swampfox98]

Dowd has been an idiot since that date she had with Michael Douglas. Must have been some night!

[dighton]

In a culture so besotted with celebrity ...

Look who's talking!

[LarryLied]

Poor Maureen is just frustrated. She isn't getting enough dictatorship of the proletariat.

[habs4ever]

This stupid cow has conveniently forgotten that her employer happens to be a Big Business, in fact a very Big business, that should be picketed everyday by the dilletantish socialists that draw their paycheques from the very same business'.Go on food stamps honey bun if you don't like to associated with the evils of the capitalist system.Another boring screed from a dim bulb.

[M Kehoe]

Ms. Dowd's words show no liking for the President (nice to use uppercase again). This is a good thing.

The more W. irritates Dowd (like a burr in the saddle) and her comrades, the more confirmation I have that Bush is doing something right.

5.56mm

[tbg681]

The next time you make a total ass out of yourself -- like, say, having 22 drinks at a friends wedding and throwing up on the dance floor -- just think about how much superior you are than the Lonely Spinster on the Hudson. BTW, just saw (an obviously aging) Michael Douglas with his new squeeze (hehehe). Maureen, I suppose, would be quite sad and probably assuage her emptiness by whipping out "The American President" DVD and watching it for the 1437th time!

[AlphalfaMale]

Actually, aside from the anti W. stuff, it could have been written by a FReeper.

[beckett]

The column is just the latest example of Dowd's sloppy reporting in service to "witty reparteé". The factual errors are numerous and egregious, as usual. Dowd is a complete ass whose talent to amuse is way overrated.

[LenS]

There is only I.B.M. and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon.

Let's see AT&T has been broken into smaller and smaller pieces with the remnant in real trouble. IBM has survived but it no longer comes close to dominating computers like it did in the 60's and 70's. ITT has been a mess with no direction with most of it's divisions sold off many years ago. The other four have had good years, but they've also had bad. None of them come even close to running the world.

[UB355]

Wasn't there a ton of Oil company mergers duringthe Clinton Years ?

[Octar]

The only reason this bimbage still has a column is that she is as promiscuous as someone of her age can be. That Michael Douglas, Mort Zuckerman, and the rest didn't want her for more than a brief toy, is telling. Twisted and alone, it's no wonder she hates anyone who has a life.

[SongathuSouth]

I loathe Maureen Dowd's columns. She was particularly nasty during the impeachment hearings. She crawled so far up Clinton's. . .Anyway, I've noticed several times a year, she says something interesting. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

And it isn't good for freedom or democracy that most of the mass media is controlled by a few powerful men.

[Octar]

Just for laughs.

[537 Votes]

And it isn't good for freedom or democracy that most of the mass media is controlled by a few powerful men.

I agree. Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck have far too much power. They should be broken up into smaller men.

[ArcLight]

Ms. Dowd used to at least occasionally write a column that reflected some genuine wit and a smidge of originality. It's now been a couple months since she's written a good one. She seems so taken with hostility toward W. that week after week she just babbles about how she can't stand the guy. No particular reason. She just can't. That's all.

[ArcLight]

Did I mention that I'm a columnist myself? Trust me.

Anyway, having written my share of incoherent dreck, on days when I didn't have anything truly interesting to say, I know all the symptoms, and this column is awash in them. She starts out talking about TV shows on the dead, hops to the Microsoft case, tees off for awhile on Georgie, denounces the increasing concentration of our media--most of which happened during the Clinton years but is still somehow Bush's fault...it's just an incoherent mess. Oh well. Bad week. Trouble is, that's all she seems to be having of late. And Ms. Dowd used to write a pretty good column.

[lara]

Maureen's become such an elitist snob. I find her pretentious and boring.