Quote of the Day (October 20, 2010)

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Michael Knox Beran on The Corner at NRO:

"In a piece called 'Making Ignorance Chic,' Maureen Dowd continues to use the kind of slips everyone makes on occasion (particularly when under pressure) against Sarah Palin, who in her words has 'made ignorance fashionable.' ... Dowd writes, 'You endorse a candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate seat who is the nominee in West Virginia? Oh, well.' Yeah, that’s almost as dumb as forgetting you stuck a paragraph from someone else’s work in your own column without attribution."

Quote of the Day (August 22, 2010)

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Alan Caruba at Warning Signs:

"How far from reality has [Maureen] Dowd wandered? The nation is irrational? Obama is high-minded? Being angry regarding the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor is wrong? And surely the fearmongers she has in mind include Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. In psychology, the term 'projection' is used to describe imputing one’s own emotions to others. 'The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown, with the right spreading fear and disinformation that is amplified by the poisonous echo chamber that is the modern media environment.' The echo chamber to which she refers has been and is the liberal news media that sold us on Barack Obama, equating him with Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Engaging in what media pundit Bernie Goldberg called a 'slobbering love affair.' Dowd is looking in the mirror."

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 6, 2009)

Curtis Dahlgren:

"Right away, you see why New Yorkers like Maureen Dowd can't relate to Sarah Palin... Mo Dowd compared Sarah Palin to Liza Doolittle, the cockneyed flower seller in 'My Fair Lady.' The modern 'Sophists' have compared her to everything from 'slutty flight attendant' to 'Governor Gidget'... Obviously, they haven't read the Book."

- JP

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

Quote of the Day (August 22, 2009)

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Wynton Hall:

"Now ask yourself this question: If conservatives like Gov. Sarah Palin are such vaporous fools, then how can they 'hijack' a national debate from the most powerful man on the planet…and all with a simple Facebook posting no less?

Indeed, if Sarah Palin is the 'whack job' and 'intellectual lightweight' Mr. Begala claims her to be, then what does that make Mr. Obama who, according to Ms. Dowd, just got his clock cleaned by a Facebook message written by the unserious likes of a 'nutty puppy' like Ms. Palin?

And therein lies the rub:  Democratic elitism never ceases to backfire."

- JP

Political Pit Bull Mauls Mo Dowd

If you don't believe that Robert Stacy McCain is a political pit bull with ChapStick®  -- just read his evisceration of Palin-obsessed NY Times columnist maureen Dowd here. Warning: It's not a pretty sight.

Nope, no doubt about it. We're just thankful he's on our side.

Related: Even some Dowd fans are turned off by the scornful scribe's latest catty column, as we note in this critique from the tech angle by Tanya Gupta. Keep up the bad work, Mo! You're driving up sympathy for Sarah better than any Palinista could hope to manage.

Update 1: Clifton B. says Dowd is consumed by envy of Sarah Palin. Others have observed that Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker are similarly afflicted. To paraphrse an old Steven Stills song:

"PDS  it strikes deep,
in the minds of liberal creeps"

Update 2: The Blog Prof weighs in.

Update 3: Larry Amon, Baltimore Christian Conservative Examiner, on the fear factor.

- JP

Say It Ain't So, Mo: A Woman Obsessed

Not much Sarah Palin news this Friday, as the former governor and her family enjoy a well-deserved vacation. Let's kill some time with a Maureen Dowd Pwnapalooza... 

Randy McRoberts noticed a recent Mean Maureen trend:

"Half of her last eight columns are about Palin."

If this keeps up, Dowd may have to have a face-off with Kathleen Parker for the "Obsessively Palin-Deranged" crown.

Regarding Dowd's recent anti-Palin diatribe in a guest shot with PMSNBC's Willie Geist, BrianinMO observed;

"Maureen Dowd is the classic Eastern Liberal, who has no idea what average Americans are like, or how they think. She spends her life belittling and making fun of the very values and people that have built, protected, and preserved this nation."

Politik Ditto was a bit harsher with the criticism of the NY Times columnist:

"The venomous, foul-mouth, childless, husbandless, plagiarist that is Maureen Dowd just can't let go of her hatred towards a conservative, successful woman with a family who represents everything she's personally against"

Christine Flowers, in a Philadelphia Daily News op-ed, remarked on Mo's viciousness, as Dowd is increasingly compelled to attack now former Gov. Palin:

"When Maureen Dowd starts typing these days (her own thoughts, we hope), you can almost hear the creaking of her arthritic joints. This chick is so jealous of Palin's youth and star power that her columns - once enjoyable in a a poisonous sort of way - have become tiresome, the journalistic equivalent of Tina Fey's one-note shtick."

Posting at The Houston Conservative, Will Malven comments:

"It never ceases to amaze me what passes for intellectual commentary from those on the Left. Maureen Dowd is the definitive harridan of hatred. Hers is the voice of a shrill harpy whose talent, like her "beauty," is long since spent...if it ever existed; pathetic, pitiable and sad to say, laughable."

But Allan Willingham wins the Alliteration Award hands down with this:

"Another tumultuous tirade by the Serpent Queen and her poison pen for the frenzied fanatical masses. Maureen Dowd once again admits angst and acrimony as she arches back to the ink wretched stain she becomes when against her chosen Nemesis, Sarah Palin."

Yeah, a mud wrestling death match between Mo Dowd and Katie Parker might be fun to watch, but only after one beer too many. And if only both of them lose.

- JP