Winging Maureen Dowd

At American Thinker, Stuart Schwartz fires another round at Maureen Dowd. A previous shot in August against at the elitist NY Times columnist seemed to us to be a silver-bullet bulls eye, but the rabid writer managed to survive. Schwartz must have only (left) winged her. Some tidbits from his latest Go-Fo-Mo shooting safari:

Dowd faces a new information age in which readers continue to turn their backs on her and her employer of 26 years, leaving a shrinking readership of aging elites from academia, politics and media. Her readers are disappearing -- and that's even before the Obama death panels for seniors kick in.

The result: she has become increasingly angry and increasingly shrill. The old gray mare ain't what she used to be.

Ouch! Now that's gotta leave a mark, no matter how thick the horse's hide. Back on target:

Family, wealth, friendship, school, and lifestyle. You either have it or you don't, which is why Dowd so despises the latest gatecrasher, Sarah Palin.

A week ago, Dowd again let her have it with both claws. Sarah Palin is just a mom -- a vicious epithet in the world of Dowd -- who is "fanning the flames" against someone she views as "a Harvard smarty pants." Palin is either jealous of his Ivy education or as "brain-dead" as her Down syndrome infant (she didn't say it, but that's "the unspoken word" she used).

Palin, with her public education, doesn't understand that Obama is Harvard "charming and informed." Dowd knows that charm is infused into the DNA of Harvard graduates, as Democrat Barney Frank, class of 1962, can attest. Barney's Dowd-like charm was on display during a recent town hall, where he called a constituent questioning his support of health care "vile and contemptuous".

As we say in the Keyboard Kingdom, read it all here.

- JP