WEHT Maureen Dowd

I used to like her columns, too. After a while, she starting loving silly wordplay even more than she hated the Clintons.

The NYT had its pundits rate the last Democratic debate and Dowd was the lowest score for EVERY candidate. She hated everyone.

She's gotten so sour.

Dowd has been visibly insane for quite some time right now. She is just as dumb and venal as ever, this is nothing new.

She was one of the main group of journalists who normalized Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Dowd even managed to write a column that segued Robin Williams suicide into how much she hated Hilary Clinton. As far back as 2000, Dowd was smearing Al Gore as an effeminate "lactating " wimp who sung to himself in the mirror .As recently as 2016, she was shitting out columns titled "Donald the Dove, Hilary the Hawk ".

I'm still big, it's the newspapers that got small!

Her shtick got old, and she never married and she gets paid what is no doubt a handsome sum of money to regurgitate the same column (Clintons Bad! Bush Bad! Obama Wimpy! Trump Crazy!) every week

SEE ALSO: Friedman, Tom; Blow, Charles; Kristof, Nick.

At least Paul Krugman seems to have woken up after three years of writing "I Hate Donald Trump" 350 times and calling it a column.

I used to think she had a clever way with words (back in the 80s), but it went to her head and she got too cute with it.

Hillbotz seem to have a special hatred for Dowd, which is unsurprising given how much Dowd seems to hate their Queen.

Though I don't seem to recall Dowd making it onto the list of "99 Reasons I Lost And I Was A Shitty Candidate Ain't One" which must have really pissed Dowd off, given how vested she was in taking down Hillary

Anybody know why she hated to Clintons so much?

Was there some other politician she was friends with that the Clintons ran over in their bid for the presidency?

It’s the menopause.

Dowd is a pathological liar that has been caught misquoting and misleading for years. Media Matters has been pointing this out for quite some time but she still has her job because she schmoozed the right people. Dowds social circle consists of socialite cunts like Sally Quinn and an assortment of powerful and smarmy DC nerds. Clearly these connections have allowed her to remain employed.

She and Bret Stephens seem to have "found religion" these past several years; rarely does Dowd mention Secretary Clinton now.

R4 - What is your beef against Nick Kristoff and Charles Blow?

She was very clever but then it got too much. Instead of letting her wordplay come naturally, she started forcing it and her writing became painful to read. Embarrassing actually. And then she became bitter about everything. Too bad. A very talented writer who obviously started believing her reviews. Peggy Noonan is going down that dark alley, also. She had a good run with Bush the First. And that was that.

Kristof and (especially) Blow write the same column over and over again.

R10 Dowd the imbecile has found nothing. So many journalists (including Dowd ) created the impression that nobody was more terrible than the Clinton's and now we have a Trump presidency. While they undoubtedly feel no remorse as this doesn't affect them, they know full well that the history books will not look kindly on journalists who pushed this narrative so they are starting to get a little quieter.

Just a few months back, Dowd was giggling on twitter that supposedly no one wanted to see the Clinton's speak. She is still a cunt.

I actually think Noonan is doing okay R11, and what she says these days makes a lot of sense.

I love that her "Trump is an huge embarrassment to the GOP and to America" attitude infuriates the commentariat at the WSJ.

She's never going to be a liberal, and I may not always agree with her, but at least I can understand where she's coming from.

Obama supposedly hates her, according to his former advisor David Axelrod.

What is Dowd's political affiliation? Does she consider herself a Democrat, a liberal?

[quote] supposedly no one wanted to see the Clinton's speak

Outside of a small coterie of DLEGs, R13, she did have a point. The tour was an embarrassment

R16 She pretends to be a democrat but has been attacking democrats for years. Dowd only pretends to be liberal because it is seen as respectable in her social circles.

She went on a date with Rush Limbaugh. That says it all. Desperate, sleazebag bitch.

Someone threw a bucket of water on her and she melted.

Speaking of Paul Krugman, I have to say I was impressed that he did not launch into a Dowd style take down of Obama after he was rejected by that administration. PK had hopes to be part of that administration, I know it hit hard when no job offer came around.

R20 Krugman is a good columnist and an actual professional. We all know how Dowd would have handled rejection.

R7 A mix of classism and anti Southern prejudice towards Bill Clinton and resentment at Hilary for not being a cocktail sipping socialite. And probably some personal pathology that Dowd never addressed with a therapist.

And besides, many political journalists will absolutely rip any democrat to shreds who isn't a precious Kennedy. Which is ironic because the Kennedy's really were incredibly corrupt. Look at how Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and John Kerry were treated by the press.

R7 A mix of classism and anti Southern prejudice towards Bill Clinton and resentment at Hilary for not being a cocktail sipping socialite. And probably some personal pathology that Dowd never addressed with a therapist.

And besides, many political journalists will absolutely rip any democrat to shreds who isn't a precious Kennedy. Which is ironic because the Kennedy's really were incredibly corrupt. Look at how Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and John Kerry were treated by the press.

So Dowd may have thought of Bill as just some barefoot hillbilly totally not in correct league to sit in the White House.

As far as Hillary goes I would think that an Ivy League education in under grad and grad would be very respectable but I guess not to socialites used to spending their husbands money and drinking most of the day.

She's old and not getting any more dick.

It's instructive to recall that she dated the actor Michael Douglas.

So she aspired to that glamorous world, which she never really fit in, and aged out of.

Despite nominally being a liberal, she is actually in love with the idea of conservative machismo because of her adoration for her working-class father and brothers from Baltimore. This caused her to dote on W. (and even Trump a little bit), and be a complete bitch about men she saw as wimps like Gore and Bill Clinton. She wanted to mock Obama too, but fear of being labeled a racist caused her to temper her criticism of him quite a bit.

She loathes powerful women, and has always been a complete bitch about Hillary and other women she sees as strong (like Teresa Heinz Kerry).

She's not worth much. She's neither as funny as Gail Collins, nor as smart as Michelle Goldberg or Paul Krugman or Charles Blow, nor as practically wise as Frank Bruni. She's just bitchy and big mouthed. Like Thomas L. Friedman, she's pretty much a hack, just churning out crap.

R27 pretty much sums it up.

[quote] I would think that an Ivy League education in under grad

The Pantsuit Jesus did her undergrad at Wellesley, which while a fine school, is not Ivy League. (Though it did inspire the slogan "Wellesley to wed, Pine Manor to bed" in the 1920s, in reference to Harvard men.)

She did however, walk on water and heal cripples with just a touch.

Or that's what I read on Datalounge, anyway.

Dear god how I loathe Thomas Friedman, does he still write for the NYT?

R26 Poor dowdy really did try. She seems to have a great deal of resentment towards women who did manage the whole power marriage thing. Democrats wives seem to anger her the most.

"And probably some personal pathology that Dowd never addressed with a therapist."

Dowd's hardon for Hillary proves the theory that nobody hates women more than other women.

She definitely had a huge hate boner for both of the Clintons.

I found it amusing.

OTOH, she nailed it with today's column:

[bold] America's Parasite [/bold]

WASHINGTON — It’s funny that Donald Trump doesn’t like a movie about con artists who invade an elegant house and wreak chaos.

He should empathize with parasites.

No doubt the president is a movie buff. He has been known to call advisers in the wee hours to plan movie nights at the White House for films he wants to see, like “Joker.” And, in an early sign of his affinity for tyrants, he told Playboy in 1990 that his role model was Louis B. Mayer running MGM in the ’30s.

Trump interrupted his usual rally rant Thursday night to bash the Oscars, saying: “And the winner is a movie from South Korea. What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of it, they give them the best movie of the year?” He added: “Can we get ‘Gone With the Wind’ back, please? ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ So many great movies. The winner is from South Korea. I thought it was best foreign film, right? Best foreign movie. No. Did this ever happen before? And then you have Brad Pitt. I was never a big fan of his. He got upset. A little wise guy statement. A little wise guy. He’s a little wise guy.” (When he accepted his Oscar, Pitt complained that the Senate did not let John Bolton testify.)

Our president is nostalgic for a movie romanticizing slavery and a movie about an aging diva swanning maniacally around a mansion, living in a vanished past. (I am big. It’s the party that got small.)

Trump’s xenophobic movie criticism, combined with his mocking pronunciation of the name “Buttigieg,” harked back to the days when George H.W. Bush ran in 1988 wrapped in the flag, saying he was on “the American side,” while his celebrity endorser Loretta Lynn complained that she couldn’t even pronounce the name Dukakis. Too foreign-sounding.

It also echoed a segment on Laura Ingraham’s show, in which it was suggested that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an American war hero who immigrated from Ukraine, might be guilty of espionage.

And in his Vegas rally on Friday, Trump was again calling his predecessor “Barack Hussein Obama.”

This was another bad, crazy week trapped in Trump’s psychopathology. No sooner was the president acquitted than he put scare quotes around the words justice and Justice Department and sought to rewrite the narrative of the Mueller report, whose author warned that Russia was going to try to meddle in the U.S. election again.

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Philip Rucker wrote in The Washington Post: “As his re-election campaign intensifies, Trump is using the powers of his office to manipulate the facts and settle the score. Advisers say the president is determined to protect his associates ensnared in the expansive Russia investigation, punish the prosecutors and investigators he believes betrayed him, and convince the public that the probe was exactly as he sees it: an illegal witch hunt.”

Trump, who moved from a Fifth Avenue penthouse to the White House, is sinking deeper into his poor-little-me complex, convinced that he is being persecuted.

His darker sense of grievance converges with a neon grandiosity. Trump is totally uncontrolled now. Most presidents worry about the seaminess of pardons and wait until the end. Trump is going full throttle on pardoning his pals and pals of his pals in an election year.

The Republicans have shown they are too scared to stop him and won’t. The Democrats want to stop him but can’t. (Although if they win the Senate back, Democrats will probably end up impeaching him again and this time have plenty of witnesses.)

Now, in a frightening new twist, the president is angry at his own intelligence team for trying to protect the national interest. He would rather hide actual intelligence from Congress than have Adam Schiff know something that Trump thinks would make him look bad politically.

As The Times reported, the president’s intelligence officials warned House lawmakers in a briefing that Russia was once more intent on trespassing on our election to help Trump, intent on interfering in both the Democratic primaries and the general. (They also told Bernie Sanders that the Russians were trying to help his campaign.)

News of the House briefing caused another Vesuvian eruption from the mercurial president, who is hypersensitive to any suggestion that he isn’t winning all on his own.

The Times story said that “the president berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place,” especially because his nemesis Schiff was present.

A few days ago, the president replaced Maguire as acting director with Richard Grenell, the sycophantic ambassador to Germany whose qualifications for overseeing the nation’s 17 spy agencies include being a former Fox News commentator and Trump superfan who boasts a gold-level card with the Trump Organization.

As the Democrats sputter and spat and fight over federal giveaways and N.D.A.s, the unfettered president is overturning the rule of law and stuffing the agencies with toadies.

Nothing is in the national interest or public good. Everything is in the greater service of the Trump cult of personality.

In “Gone With the Wind,” Atlanta burned to the ground. In Trump’s version, Washington is aflame.

R26 Didn't he ditch her for the eternally youthful Catherine Zeta Jones?

I love Phil Rucker—especially how he makes no effort to hide his big sissies. He’s very smart, a good writer and speaker—and shows gaylings you don’t have to give up your fabulousness in order to succeed as a respected journalist. Same, to a lesser degree, with that youngster Josh Lederman.

Thank you for that r34/35.

That was a good one from Dowd, more like the old days.