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FOR CLARITY’S SAKE: For clarity’s sake, let’s say it again: In today’s hard-copy New York Times, Dowd compares Obama (sorry—“Obambi”) to a “Hollywood starlet.” But that paragraph has been disappeared on-line, and it’s been disappeared from Nexis. It’s hard to avoid a possible thought: At long last, someone at the Times may have noticed the fact that their scribe is unwell.
Dear NYT: We've already had Nancy Drew Does Iraq courtesy of Judy Miller. Can you please pull the plug on the Norma Desmond Show already?
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Jane!
Modo needs to retire. Isn’t she old enough by now?
Jane!!!
OMG. I remember laughing at her columns five or six years ago, but I cannot read them any longer. She is filled with hatred. So sad.
Digby or Jane would be great replacements for Modo.
I like Maureen Dowd, she’s frickin’ crazy but you have to accept that in some of the ladies.
Modo’s up to her old tricks again, eh?
And a good number of the fellas, too, dude.
Easy does it.
XCUSE?
Totally.
You, my friend, are in a shit load of trouble.
Ouch. That’s Grade-A right there.
To MoDough’s credit, she did reference an Onion headline in her last Meet the Russert appearance. Maybe that’s it! She’s become an Onion wannabe, and is just failing miserably.
Oh well, the NYT doesn’t need to worry. The huge influx of readers with the Bill Kristolnacht addition, and the rabid and massive Bobo Brooks following will keep circulation up.
Sorry you all but I meant crazy in an artistic sort of way. Like they say all artists are loose in the head to be so creative.
To hell with MoDo. We don’t need any more like her. If anything, we need more Jane Hamshers.
The Times edited MoDo? That is more than they ever did to Judy Miller and she lied/ran stories with only one source about WMD.
I’m guessing Modo wants to be in on the expected GOP hit on Obama in response to Super Tuesday and the Times wants no part of it.
B S
OK, you need to quit digging…
You, my friend, are still in a shit load of trouble.
Artists are not crazy or loose in the head. Artists
reflect what is going on in the world. Or what should
be going on in the world.
Disclaimer:
I am an artist.
You are actually digging a deeper hole.
Run while you can!
(from an artistic female who has been described as “fricken crazy” at times)
You go person.
Dowd’s 55, a daughter of Irish immigrants. Not THAT old.
Maureen needs the hook. Her time has passed. She is like a ripe cheese — just off.
marshen, if you’re still digging, the Darcy Burner press office may have work for you…
well said.
I can’t imagine anyone describing MoDo’s work as “artistic”. I suppose she does use a high amount of creativity in dreaming up the crap she writes… of course, the same could be said about Bill Kristol. (He’s neither an “artist” nor a “fricken crazy woman”.)
I have noticed a slew of horrible pointless silly vacuous celeb pundit opinion columns in the NY Times over the last week. And also seems like normally reliable columnists such as Rich and Kristoff are lowering themselves down to the Dowd/Brooks/Kristoff level if dishonest tendentious inanity. This is bad since those two can usually be relied upon to include some solid anlysis, information, and even once in awhile, facts.
Half the time the bigshot opinion columns over last ten days have been clown shows.
I prefer ‘piffle’. I notice Glenn Greenwald uses ‘prattle’ Whatever it is, it is either vicious or silly, depending on your frame of mind. If many readers take any of it seriously, then it is dangerous.
Can you imagine how cool it would be to have Jane, or Christy,
Digby, and I am leaving out quite a few, as columnists at the NYT.
But no we cannot have sanity and compassion in this country..not allowed.
Modo is bat sh*t crazy and that has nothing to do with her gender.
Have you ever seen her on TV? - The girl needs to recheck her dosage.
Ouch! Dang, Doc…
Then how come Vincent Van Gough cut his ear off?
I am an artist too.
Big OOPS! when I typed
“Dowd/Brooks/Kristoff level”
I meant
“Dowd/Brooks/Kristol level”
Quite a difference there, even if I do often disagree with Kristoff.
I just ain’t gettin’ my props, man!
If Obama has a closet full of skeletons, as the Clinton campaign keeps suggesting we should fear, why hasn’t the Clinton campaign revealed them?
Serious question.
Isn’t there an ethical problem with revising a newspaper article post publication in print (assuming there is no note a revision was make)?
Because he was male and deranged…! ;-)
Jane,
i wrote a letter of complaint to the NYT after her most recent knife between Hillary’s ribs. i think she’s been hanging out with Coulter. Modo has become seriously repulsive ……
Cause he had a std and was really fucked up. Syphlis they say. Or was bi polar. Fucked up and beautiful. A wonder of a man.
Sarah Vowell did a terrific job subbing last summer if they can’t bring themselves to hire “lefty bloggers”.
Is Jane still here? I ain’t touchin’ that age thing. Man, but she pounded Richmond this morning. I’m warnin’ y’all. Stay away from that.
Dosage of what, though? I’m always trying to guess what this or that person is on.
I was convinced during one of the Kerry-Bush debates that Bush was on Thorazine, but nah, everyone makes those cud-chewing jaw-thrusting facial grimaces, right?
That is true. She seems to have a number of ‘issues’ many of them connected to coolness, gender/power interactions, bring in on the kewl crowd. Maybe a good point of comparison would be Matthews on the other side of the gender aisle.
She is different than Kristol or Brooks, who are good old fashioned hack journalists. They have an act that earns them big bucks, celebrity and influence. They are like crusty old carnies who run freak shows. They are professionals, in the worst sense of the word.
This isn’t the first article I have seen on her seeming fixations, they have been appearing every once in a while at other sites too, with more frequency.
Ann Althouse is going to have a new friend soon it seems.
I have been reading Mike McConnell’s Threats Assessmnet off and on today. It is interesting for what it does and does not say and the Administration spin that permeates it. Basically, if this is the way the intelligence (and I use that term avisedly) community views the world, we are so screwed.
Jane forgot Michael Gordon. He’s just as bad as Judy.
I forgot to put in the link:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/p.....timony.pdf
wesgpc, it’s funny you say that. I happen to have CNN Anderson Cooper on in the background, and I’m amazed at the dribble/piffle/prattle/horsecrap “America’s Most Trusted News Source” is “reporting” tonight. They have Glenn Beck as the main host, talking about how he’ll vote for Hillary instead of McCain. They also spent a good amount of time discussing how sad and terrible it is that the media won’t leave poor Britney alone… including the footage of her being hounded by paparrazi and a medical expert (who doesn’t know her) talking about how bad her life is… along with another “report” on how Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose (with a medical expert that didn’t examine him). The worst part is that Anderson Cooper keeps talking about how they don’t like to report about Britney and Heath Ledger’s death, but geez… everyone wants to hear it, so they’re going to spend a bunch of time talking about it and how the media circus is out of control.
I’m not surprised at the dribble that files the TV and papers like the NYT today. The celeb punditry is vapid but cheap. The media consolidation rules in this country have dumbed everything down, removing competition for accurate content.
Thank goodness we have blogs.
You’re obviously not a psychiatrist - I am.
The assertion that one member of an occupational group had a given malady - and (by implication) all members of that group therefore have the same malady reveals woeful ignorance of biology and causality.
And - in the contexxt - really poor social skills,
Nevertheless, even boorish artists need work.
Since you enjoy digging so much, if you’re in the Bay Area, what’s your fee to get some unwanted blackeberry vines out of my back yard.
It is fine to pound it if you are female and older than Jane. I know that is hypocritical but I don’t fuckin care.
Probably because corporate media has decided who they want in the the.
general election…McCain v Oama. Any attack on Obama is framed, at some level, a racist. Obama and the Dems are getting sandbagged.
Ding ding! We have a winner.
Looseheadprop had a post up two down here tonight with some details, although much of it is pretty “inadmissable.”
Didn’t stop Ken Starr, of course.
Yeah. Whatever.
Yikes! She scares me!
Did you see TDS tonight? Do you know how “The Beard” always talks about “the best political team on TV” or some such nonsense? Stewart showed a clip of Hume saying Faux has the Best Poltiical team ever. CNN and Faux going over the edge. I better start buying popcorn.
Okay, now this is beautiful.
Are you spoiling for a fight?
Well, I won’t cause I loves ya.
Aww, c’mon no spoilers for us left coasters and beyond….
Who is investigating them? Is it the FEC? The Republicans screwing their own? Who would thought that???
Sorry. :-(
Please no TDS Spoilers for the Westies!
Obama is an Illinois Senator politics/crime is a joint GOP/Dem operation there, if you dig into Illinois you hurt Mayor Daley and you hurt Rep Rahm Emanuel.
Hilary needs Daley to win Chicago.
Who is investigating them? Is it the FEC?
No. The FBI!
“They have Glenn Beck as the main host, talking about how he’ll vote for Hillary instead of McCain.”
If they could stick to that kind of prattle, it would be OK. Problem is that they won’t.
Beck, along with Matthews and Dowd, have some interesting psych issues. But, I am no psychiatrist or psychologists, so I am not diagnosing anything. But, as a layman, they all have big issues, in the layman’s sense of the work.
I prefer them to Kristol, Brooks, Hewitt (or whoever the overbearing, rude, lying, pudgy Mitt-maniac is with the white hair and goofy little glasses.) The professional hacks are worse. They are sociopaths.
Normally I’m nuts for a readhead but, yeesh!
hee.hee.hee
I like Richmond. He didn’t mean anything by it.
I’m I understandig the assessment right that the bad fguys are goibng from Iraq to Pakistan? Is that right? I mean, it occurred to me that they were in Afghanistan/Pakistan to begin with. Some went to Iraq, I guess, after we liberated it. And now they’re going back to Pakistan. So we’re basically right back where we were after 9/11, except now we’re quagmired up to our necks in Iraq.
Hmmm… might have to watch to see if “The Beard” and “The Hume” can get into a mudfight this fall to prove just who is the best. Heh.
I haven’t watched TDS or TCR since the strike. I miss it dearly. Here’s hoping the strike ends soon (though I must say I’ve been enjoying Letterman, who just said “Mitt looks like the guy who has a crease in his jeans.” and “Hillary won American Samoa. It ends up, that’s where she’s hiding Bill.”
On that lovely joke, I’m outtie here. Time for bed. I hope everyone has a great night!
The Grey Lady has certainly gone greyer…
When I now read Dowd articles, I want to ask, “Who are you and what have you done with Maureen Dowd?”
Sleep well, Land!
Damn. I try to start somethin’ and ya go and make me blush.
Shoot… sorry about giving out a few of Letterman’s jokes from his monologue. I should’ve thought before I typed.
Confession: I think, if you look at certain pictures where the personalities don’t show through, both Dowd and Malkin are hot.
No, no, not Coulter, ever ever ever. Not that. NOOOO.
Aloha, LotF!
I think MoDo is still trying to matter. She has miscalculated her self-importance.
Or not.
Rabble rousing is important. Keep it up.
I know. I thought it was a fun exchange. I’ll tell you, though, after that exchange I’ve been pretty attuned to the “age thing” and that’s a good thing that I’m aware of that. It seemed I was missing something you found pretty dominant in this campaign. I’m paying more attention for it.
kirk murphy February 6th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
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Then how come Vincent Van Gough cut his ear off?
I am an artist too.
You’re obviously not a psychiatrist - I am.
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Kirk,
i was in touch with a psychiatrist about 25 years ago who had studied the literature on Van Gogh. he was intrigued by the possibility that Vincent’s instability was considerably increased by his exposure to the chemicals and lead that were contained in the paints he used, particularly the yellows. Any thoughts on that conceit?
Oy. Blackberry vines. I had the most beat-up old skunk saunter through my back yard for blackberries. Don’t know what ever happened to the old chap.
Confess to not having read all the comments, yet.
But, I got a huge rant from my best friend in CT when I stayed for xmas and NY.
“Modo is totally unprincipled. She contributes nothing of value. It’s all about her. etc. etc.”
Can’t say I disagree!
OT: I heard Nancy Pelosi on All Things Considered during my drive home. She used the work “bipartisan” three times, and each time I screamed: FUCK BIPARTISANSHIP!
But his brother eventually had the same problems.
Nancy Pelosi is a wanker.
Want my unvarnished opinion re: the hotness of those 2 ??
Never mind.
Then it was worth it.
Hope Richmond thinks so too.
*g*
The freaking FBI!
Smart move. Me, too.
Ha! Romney is apparently going to keep pouring $$$ into his campaign and keep fighting:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.....38;emc=rss
Keep attacking McCain! You idiot.
I apologize to anyone that was offended by my comments and especially to Jane Hamsher for being allowed to read, learn, and understand what is really going on everyday in our world.
ThingsComeUndone February 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
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In response to factotum @ 32
Obama is an Illinois Senator politics/crime is a joint GOP/Dem operation there, if you dig into Illinois you hurt Mayor Daley and you hurt Rep Rahm Emanuel.
Hilary needs Daley to win Chicago.
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veh ree in dah rez ding …….
you may be sure the Karlbots are all over that (LFOS).
You are forgiven times a hundred. We love you.
Apparently the ‘Frank’ discussion was over how much more to contribute…
Well, when you have Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh all saying they’re going to vote for Hillary Clinton, what have you really got? I think it’s a bunch of whack jobs who think they can keep from getting her elected. Or, a group who wants to get Obama as the dem candidate because they know they can tear him apart.
Hope Hillary gets the nod from us. Heaven help us with an unknown/untested Barack.
Modo used to be funny I agree but for the last few years it seems that she has been suffering from writers block.
She has always been catty, and vicious, sometimes she even had some real insight.
Now is she overworked, stressed out, unhappy I don’t know but I do know that she has been phoning her column in her writing lacks something.
Also her insight seems gone too?
Modo was at her best attacking Bush and attacking Bill for cheating on his wife.
I think that she needs to ask herself why she wants to write.
“They have Glenn Beck as the main host, talking about how he’ll vote for Hillary instead of McCain.”
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this is a Repub talking point. meant to get our guard down. we should provide a camera to record Beck doing what he said he would do. like a snowball in hell …….
I don’t like reading her. I was raised by the “do unto others” rule. Why say cruel things about people? Especially, made up sh*t.
especially to Jane Hamsher for being allowed to read, learn, and understand what is really going on everyday in our world.
uh? that last is not entirely clear…
That’s cause you’re both sweeties.
Bagel recipe for BFL
Modo is quite a good writer.
But I wish she would start using her power for good - instead of evil.
I’m suspiscious of Hillary’s supposed 5 million dollar loan to her campaign and her claim that her staffers are going without pay. I’m not buying it actually.
Dowd is Not Hot.
She’s an email friend with GHWB. Enough said.
This state MD and MM attractiveness comes in short fits. I can’t explain it. I’ll never mention it again. Hasn’t happened in awhile.
But… recently Brooks is kind of growing on me somehow. Something about his seeming cretfallen disappointment in the Republican conservative downfall, his earnest hope that they can reform themselves, and do good once more, all the while retaining the true inner goodness of movement and crony capitalist corporate conservativsm that will allow his bosses to rake in the dough and give it to him for hacking around.
The poor man looks so vulnerable! His professional hackness is being stretched thin and perhaps I am seeing true soul searching. That is absurd of course, he is professional hack.
But.. I just feel like he needs a hug. Now, THAT is distrubing. Need to lay off these pundit celebs for awhile. They are doing something weird to my brain.
Lemme see. Kerry. Purple heart. Repubs wouldn’t have any of that. McCain. POW. Nope, none of that either.
They really hate the troops. Why?
Dang, VG, you’re a cynical one, eh?
Hooking pinky fingers.
should have said.. for allowing me to read….sorry!
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Those idjits don’t have the sway they used to. They’ve been pumping the Tax Whisperer hard, yet Mittmo is going down bigtime. They can’t even influence their own choir anymore. Who cares what they say or are gonna do.
Obama/Edwards 08!
I’m not suspicious of it, but at the campaign’s burn rate, I’m unsure how far it will take them. She had eighteen million on hand for the primary on 1/1. If that’s gone now, her loan of five million will not last until the end of this month.
Unless, of course, Penn’s going without pay. But I really doubt that.
marshen! thanks for the clarification and for your gracious response! Most appreciated.
Thanks. I dunno what it is about the bagels here. they don’t boil them long enough? i dunno. but they’re too chewey and doughy. i’ll try it sometime. thanks again.
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Ha! Romney is apparently going to keep pouring $$$ into his campaign and keep fighting:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes…..38;emc=rss
Keep attacking McCain! You idiot.
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i imagine not too many days will go by and Mitt’s wife and children are gonna call him on his stupidity. he don’t know when to fold ‘em.
What does Romney know that we don’t. Or that anyone else in the universe knows?
Amen! The RNC know they are so screwed… However, I truly hope our down tickets really benefit from the up surge with more and better Dems…
You probably do need to lay off. I did just that after NH. Didn’t watch coverage on TV for about a week. Only read headlines in the paper. no stories or articles. Might be heard for you to do. After the intensity of IA & NH, there was a bit of a lull until FL. Aren’t going to be any lulls now.
digg it
marymccurnin February 6th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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In response to fahrender @ 111
What does Romney know that we don’t. Or that anyone else in the universe knows?
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is that a trick question?
NO! To Late! I’m in love with poor little Brooksy! And I’m a straight guy. Too late! Woe is me! Celebrity TV pundits have driven me crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
I like her as a writer. Hard to put my finger on what I hate. the insider-ness, maybe? i dunno.