Comments on: Maureen Dowd and “White Bitch Month” http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:59:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273414 MarkH Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:54:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273414 <blockquote><p>McBush swallows his last ounce of integrity and votes for torture</p></blockquote> <p>Yeah, he might vote for it but consider this, the Democratic Congress and presidential candidates are actually <b>doing it</b> to America. First they let Bush have anything and let the 4th Amendment go and then Clinton & Obama fail to vote on FISA and talk about Progressive values. It’s mind-bending stuff.</p> <p>Where is the real leadership America needs? I hear more leaderin’ here on this blog than anywhere else around. And, of course, there was that guy from NC who couldn’t be considered because he foolishly paid too much for a haircut.</p> <p>Woe is us. America is stupidly shooting itself in the foot over and over and there’s nobody with enough power to step in and stop it.</p>

McBush swallows his last ounce of integrity and votes for torture

Yeah, he might vote for it but consider this, the Democratic Congress and presidential candidates are actually doing it to America. First they let Bush have anything and let the 4th Amendment go and then Clinton & Obama fail to vote on FISA and talk about Progressive values. It’s mind-bending stuff.

Where is the real leadership America needs? I hear more leaderin’ here on this blog than anywhere else around. And, of course, there was that guy from NC who couldn’t be considered because he foolishly paid too much for a haircut.

Woe is us. America is stupidly shooting itself in the foot over and over and there’s nobody with enough power to step in and stop it.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273400 MarkH Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:47:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273400 <blockquote><p>Identity politics, so where does that get us. YOU can’t possibly understand what I have been through. So lets all get in our group and fuck everyone else.</p></blockquote> <p>Really. It makes me wonder how I’m going to decide whether to vote for Clinton or Obama if I’m to be called misogynistic or racist if I don’t vote for them.</p> <p>John Edwards for President — Leadership for everyone</p>

Identity politics, so where does that get us. YOU can’t possibly understand what I have been through. So lets all get in our group and fuck everyone else.

Really. It makes me wonder how I’m going to decide whether to vote for Clinton or Obama if I’m to be called misogynistic or racist if I don’t vote for them.

John Edwards for President — Leadership for everyone

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273393 MarkH Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:42:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273393 <blockquote><p>I’m going to be happy with Barack though, assuming he’s our guy. Didn’t I read somewhere today that he’s thinking single payer now? That would be fantastic.</p></blockquote> <p>I saw something on that too. Does Obama now support Universal Health Care?</p>

I’m going to be happy with Barack though, assuming he’s our guy. Didn’t I read somewhere today that he’s thinking single payer now? That would be fantastic.

I saw something on that too. Does Obama now support Universal Health Care?

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273374 MarkH Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:37:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1273374 <blockquote><p>When will Clinton explain why she failed to show up to vote on the FISA amendments yesterday. Compare and Contrast please. Hokey. Obama was there for every vote. McBush was there for every vote as well. Clinton was absent.</p></blockquote> <p>How did Obama, McCain and Clinton vote on the final bill?</p>

When will Clinton explain why she failed to show up to vote on the FISA amendments yesterday. Compare and Contrast please. Hokey. Obama was there for every vote. McBush was there for every vote as well. Clinton was absent.

How did Obama, McCain and Clinton vote on the final bill?

]]> By: jawbone http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272938 jawbone Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:06:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272938 <p>What struck me about MoDo’s column, besides her coy attempt to say that only the male MCMers (members of Mainstream Corporate Media) trashed Hillary, and certainly not sweet l’il Mo, was that the NYTimes has now given its imprimatur to the use of “bitch” to refer to the leading female candidate for the presidency of this country.</p> <p>It would seem, based on that precedent, that any female is now fair game for that term on the pages of the Times.</p> <p>Wow.</p> What struck me about MoDo’s column, besides her coy attempt to say that only the male MCMers (members of Mainstream Corporate Media) trashed Hillary, and certainly not sweet l’il Mo, was that the NYTimes has now given its imprimatur to the use of “bitch” to refer to the leading female candidate for the presidency of this country.

It would seem, based on that precedent, that any female is now fair game for that term on the pages of the Times.

Wow.

]]> By: linden http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272799 linden Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:29:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272799 <p>I wonder though, dmac, how much you’re getting paid compared to the guys? I know from personal experience that men doing the same job as women get paid more and promoted more often. It happens even in places where on the surface everyone seems to be respected and treated equally, because pay and promotion decisions are made in secret.</p> I wonder though, dmac, how much you’re getting paid compared to the guys? I know from personal experience that men doing the same job as women get paid more and promoted more often. It happens even in places where on the surface everyone seems to be respected and treated equally, because pay and promotion decisions are made in secret.

]]> By: Peteena http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272718 Peteena Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:28:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272718 <p>(and to PetePierce @18)</p> <p>Surely you not suggesting that mysogyny in the media is OK as long as you don’t like the target? This isn’t about Hillary Clinton, it’s about Maureen Dowd and her ilk. What do you think is going to happen if/when Barack Obama wins the nomination? All that bigotry and vitriole is going to be directed at him. We need to set the parameters for civil discourse, no matter who the subject is.</p> (and to PetePierce @18)

Surely you not suggesting that mysogyny in the media is OK as long as you don’t like the target? This isn’t about Hillary Clinton, it’s about Maureen Dowd and her ilk. What do you think is going to happen if/when Barack Obama wins the nomination? All that bigotry and vitriole is going to be directed at him. We need to set the parameters for civil discourse, no matter who the subject is.

]]> By: McEee http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272701 McEee Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:11:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272701 <p>Penn Jillette’s more of a hard-core libertarian than a Republican, tho its hard to tell the difference depending on the topic. Rabidly anti-religion, too.</p> Penn Jillette’s more of a hard-core libertarian than a Republican, tho its hard to tell the difference depending on the topic. Rabidly anti-religion, too.

]]> By: Diane http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272627 Diane Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:09:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272627 <p>Joan Walsh at Salon wrote about the boys club, then defended her position of continuing to appear on the programs.</p> Joan Walsh at Salon wrote about the boys club, then defended her position of continuing to appear on the programs.

]]> By: siri http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272612 siri Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:50:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/maureen-dowd-and-white-bitch-month/#comment-1272612 <p>EXCELLENT post, Jane. I used to LIKE Modo. Dunno what happened to her.</p> EXCELLENT post, Jane. I used to LIKE Modo. Dunno what happened to her.

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