The Dowd Rule

National Review Online ^ | 10/17/02 | Mark Goldblatt

[jjm2111]

I might even consider paying $$$$ to see that! That would be hilarious.

[jjm2111]

She looks kinda pretty. How can she be that bitter?

[jjm2111]

Did she date Michael Douglas or something?

[Gothmog]

I thought an improvement on this nice article would be to replace:
"In this respect, she is simply...Michael Moore with table manners." With:

"In this respect, she is simply...Michael Moore with boobs."

But then I remembered what Moore looked like. My bad, the author's analogy is better than mine.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Wallflower is an apt description, athough I prefer the term "barren spinster."

Maureen continues to be driven by her lack of " Gravidas" !!

[Sloth]

Condoleezza Rice, who, in 2008, will likely become both the first African American and the first woman elected president of the United States. (For the record — and you heard it here first — she'll skewer Hillary, platitude by platitude, in a series of Nielson-bonanza debates and take the election in a landslide, thus officially dragging America out of the Clinton Era, that 16-year stretch of moral manure we collectively stepped in back in 1992.)

Man, what I wouldn't give!

[nickcarraway]

ping

[TRY ONE]

Even Immus said: "When is Dowd going to give up on the GW bashing ("GW is stupid").....he has an IQ of 140....."

[dirtboy]

Bump for the evening shift

[dirtboy]

Evening shift ping - this one is well worth a careful read, no matter what one thinks of GWBush...

[justshutupandtakeit]

Where did you get information that ole V.I. had syphillis?

[gcruse]

 Bush's detractors who cannot grasp the
concept that polysyllabic flourishes do not always signify
extraordinary critical aptitude or even common sense.

Maybe not.  But multisyllabics usually got that way
because they depict narrow, selective meanings
that add precision to speech.  Monosyllabics usually
are short and broad, susceptible to misinterpretation
because there are so many possible meanings,
sort of like wet sponges used to broadly smear,
as opposed to camel's hair brushes to finely paint.

[Darlin']

"In this respect, she is simply Al Franken with a bigger vocabulary or Michael Moore with table manners"

FOFLOL. About the only thing one can say in Dowd's favor is that she isn't muslim.... at least not yet.

[sinclair]

This is great writiing. Thanks for the post.

[jmstein7]

I think Maureen need a FREEPing!

[Consort]

Dowd is a member of the Lesser Liberal Clitorati.

[dirtboy]

night shift bump

[Mr. Mojo]

The Dowd Rule

I have my own Dowd Rule -- I never read the bitter has-been.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Wow.  Terrific article.

The problem isn't that the new elites are consciously attempting to paint whoever disagrees with them as stupid; it's that they really believe that only stupid people could possibly disagree with them.

Terrific line.

[hang 'em]

Where did you get information that ole V.I. had syphillis?

A History International Channel documentary the other night.