Comments on: Austen to MoDo: You’re Doing It Wrong http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:51:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ThatSinger http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567516 ThatSinger Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:44:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567516 <p>Aside from Joe Wilson, the two people I was most excited about meeting at YearlyKos 2006 in Vegas were Harry Reid and Maureen Dowd… at this point, it’s a toss-up as to who’s turned out to be the bigger disappointment…</p> Aside from Joe Wilson, the two people I was most excited about meeting at YearlyKos 2006 in Vegas were Harry Reid and Maureen Dowd… at this point, it’s a toss-up as to who’s turned out to be the bigger disappointment…

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567240 earlofhuntingdon Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:03:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567240 <p>Miss Mow Down is only interested in the tantalizing <em>au courant</em> slur, the last refuge of a lemon with no twist. </p> <p>She once described the still beautiful and widely appreciated Catherine Deneuve, having tea with friends at a chic Parisian hotel, as “a Chanel bag surrounded by Chanel bags”. Miss Mow Down seems determined to go out as a burlap sack, Irish green with an air of Jameson’s.</p> Miss Mow Down is only interested in the tantalizing au courant slur, the last refuge of a lemon with no twist.

She once described the still beautiful and widely appreciated Catherine Deneuve, having tea with friends at a chic Parisian hotel, as “a Chanel bag surrounded by Chanel bags”. Miss Mow Down seems determined to go out as a burlap sack, Irish green with an air of Jameson’s.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567111 libbyliberal Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:04:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567111 <p>I think Obama is too Mr. Bingley-ish… people pleasing and too easily influenced by others. I would like to see MORE Darcy in him…. an IQ (integrity quotient) that gives him a spine we can count on. FISA … the news he said the Blackwater guys had gotten a bad rap…. the generalized rhetoric rather than taking a stronger populist stance. Darcy was a fair land owner.. justice was important. </p> <p>Maureen analysis had potential… but her tone really has gotten arch.</p> <p>Colin Firth….. loved him in the BBC version.</p> I think Obama is too Mr. Bingley-ish… people pleasing and too easily influenced by others. I would like to see MORE Darcy in him…. an IQ (integrity quotient) that gives him a spine we can count on. FISA … the news he said the Blackwater guys had gotten a bad rap…. the generalized rhetoric rather than taking a stronger populist stance. Darcy was a fair land owner.. justice was important.

Maureen analysis had potential… but her tone really has gotten arch.

Colin Firth….. loved him in the BBC version.

]]> By: Mauimom http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567083 Mauimom Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:27:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567083 <p>Worse than terrible is the WaPoo’s editorial page today:</p> <p>David Broder finding Ted Stevens “poignant” and praising his “ability to get $$$ for his constituents;” saluting Sununu as one of the “ablest;” and looking forward to new Senators, who he sees as “centrist” and ‘not given to ideological extremes.”</p> <p>Jim Hoagland and David Ignatius, plus George Will lamenting “Obama Eloquence Fatigue.”</p> <p>Crap, just crap.</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/outlook/index_20080803.html" rel="nofollow"></a></p> Worse than terrible is the WaPoo’s editorial page today:

David Broder finding Ted Stevens “poignant” and praising his “ability to get $$$ for his constituents;” saluting Sununu as one of the “ablest;” and looking forward to new Senators, who he sees as “centrist” and ‘not given to ideological extremes.”

Jim Hoagland and David Ignatius, plus George Will lamenting “Obama Eloquence Fatigue.”

Crap, just crap.

]]> By: njr83 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567050 njr83 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:01:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567050 <p>okay, i read MoDo again…<br /> “Can Miss Bennet teach Mr. Darcy to let down his guard, be more sportive, and laugh at himself?”<br /> dunno about Miss Bennet teaching Mr. Darcy, but Obama is utterly wrapped around the fingers on his daughters’ hands… and is being taught NOT to leave his bag on youngest daughter’s shoes in the entry hall when he comes home from the airport. I can’t believe Michelle allows youngest daughters shoes to be left in the entry hall to be targets for papa’s bags, but they will surely get this all worked out.</p> <p>having read MoDo again after a lapse of some time, I’m not sure she will get much worked out in future.</p> okay, i read MoDo again…
“Can Miss Bennet teach Mr. Darcy to let down his guard, be more sportive, and laugh at himself?”
dunno about Miss Bennet teaching Mr. Darcy, but Obama is utterly wrapped around the fingers on his daughters’ hands… and is being taught NOT to leave his bag on youngest daughter’s shoes in the entry hall when he comes home from the airport. I can’t believe Michelle allows youngest daughters shoes to be left in the entry hall to be targets for papa’s bags, but they will surely get this all worked out.

having read MoDo again after a lapse of some time, I’m not sure she will get much worked out in future.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567035 earlofhuntingdon Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:38:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567035 <p>Miss Maureen is not a character out of Austen at all. She is Bronte’s mad wife, haunting the family pile and preventing a more fruitful union betwixt the Times and its OpEd page readers. </p> <p>The Times should remind Miss Mo that the valuable acreage she occupies, like a decrepit slum spanning London Bridge, is not hers by right. It is not entailed, it is not even a life estate. It can be freely alienated to whomever can make the most of it for Father Times and his horde of trust fund kiddies.</p> Miss Maureen is not a character out of Austen at all. She is Bronte’s mad wife, haunting the family pile and preventing a more fruitful union betwixt the Times and its OpEd page readers.

The Times should remind Miss Mo that the valuable acreage she occupies, like a decrepit slum spanning London Bridge, is not hers by right. It is not entailed, it is not even a life estate. It can be freely alienated to whomever can make the most of it for Father Times and his horde of trust fund kiddies.

]]> By: njr83 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567033 njr83 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:35:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1567033 <p>rectitude and Pose OF Rectitude</p> <p>“…MoDo is more like Mrs. Norris, the selfish, self-absorbed, money-obsessed person whose pose of rectitude is a vehicle for her efforts to use others.”</p> <p>brilliant observation: pose of rectitude<br /> because I don’t read MoDo any longer, and this observation demonstrates perfectly why I don’t read MoDo any longer</p> <p>rectitude, yes, Poser, YES</p> rectitude and Pose OF Rectitude

“…MoDo is more like Mrs. Norris, the selfish, self-absorbed, money-obsessed person whose pose of rectitude is a vehicle for her efforts to use others.”

brilliant observation: pose of rectitude
because I don’t read MoDo any longer, and this observation demonstrates perfectly why I don’t read MoDo any longer

rectitude, yes, Poser, YES

]]> By: Julia http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566983 Julia Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:08:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566983 <p>heh.</p> <p>Actually, that’s what Caroline Bingley had to say about a woman she thought Mr. Darcy might be interested in (she was hoping he would marry her instead, since her resume was so sparkly).</p> heh.

Actually, that’s what Caroline Bingley had to say about a woman she thought Mr. Darcy might be interested in (she was hoping he would marry her instead, since her resume was so sparkly).

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566980 Phoenix Woman Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:03:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566980 <p>Eggszacktly.</p> Eggszacktly.

]]> By: Julia http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566979 Julia Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/austen-to-modo-youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-1566979 <p>Shame, that. I think it would derail the whole Obama as wannabe Godlet meme the McCain campaign is trying to float if people saw him as the guy who’s married to Michelle Obama…</p> Shame, that. I think it would derail the whole Obama as wannabe Godlet meme the McCain campaign is trying to float if people saw him as the guy who’s married to Michelle Obama…

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