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    Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe

    In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible

    Maureen Dowd Unconcerned About Fake News
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    Image of momo momo
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    Yes, please let's decorate the fucking CEO's offices in fucking IKEA.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    Maybe Dowd is all mad at the bank for turning down her home equity loan application to finance her 400-celebrity Georgetown kegger.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    "It would probably be unfair and pointless to ask about how much money Dowd has sunk unto the home office at her 1819 Georgetown townhome. Not that she's received government bailout money for it! Though the Times did need Mexican Billionaire Bailout Money and she's probably paid a bit better than your average "actual reporter."


    Thain remodeled his office pre-bailout. It's even less different.

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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    Did we send all the poor people to Detroit? I was wondering what we did with them. We'll have to annex Canada soon to fit them all. Or all just ride them around on a garbage barge destined for nowhere. Or the Middle East.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    Boobs.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/28/09

    In reply to Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman Play Make-Believe
    Now that is not so much of a viable option for lots of reasons that everyone in the comments can argue about.


    OK. Let's spark this argument.


    I say we kick both the Israelis and the Palestinians off the land and build Super-Mega-Disney World there instead.

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/28/09

    @Mount_Prion(allrightsreserved): Death to Space Mountain!
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    01/28/09

    @saythatscool: Mission to Masada!
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    01/28/09

    @TableNine: And the less popular "It's A Small World Far Too Small For Us To Peacefully Coexist In A Two State Solution" ride.
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    01/28/09

    @TableNine: *grumblelousycommastealingwebsi...*
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    01/28/09

    @Mount_Prion(allrightsreserved): Pirates of the Al-Jazeerean!
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/08/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    Dowd stole "Obambi" from John Kass of the Chicago Tribune.


    Just sayin'.

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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    Never mind the merits. Ms. Dowd looks quite fetching in that there photo. Grrrrrrrraahwerrrrr.
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    Image of AddisonPers?phon AddisonPers?phon
    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    see also: Glenn Greenwald's Salon post on this very subject.

    Even Clinton/Gore's macho $22.2 million job (even low-paying service industry jobs are a boon to poor blacks/Latinos and whites, etc.) creation and virile $250 billion dollar surplus didn't absolve them in her eyes.

    It drives me crazy that so many otherwise intelligent liberals and progressives have internalized this type of Clinton-bashing insanity. It astounds me how many of my friends will villify the Clintons without a word of contempt for the Bushies.
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    Image of SinisterRouge SinisterRouge
    11/07/08

    @AddisonPers?phon: Yeah I'm not exactly sure where it comes from. I like Obama as much as I do now because he's basically Bill economically.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    I fucking hate her. She's such a hateful old hag. She was the one calling Gore a liar and saying that his policy-wonk-ness was boring. Yeah bitch, boring, but he would have been great.


    I also fucking HATE how she refers to Bush as W. God, she makes me want to pull her hair out.

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    Image of GoFish GoFish
    11/07/08

    @SinisterRouge: I can't stand Dowd, but you hating on her because she's a hater is a wee bit hypocritical.
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    11/07/08

    @GoFish:That makes no sense. I hate her for being a liar and a terrible journalist and an overall nasty bitch who has no business having a column in the high school paper never mind the Times. That is why I hate her. She's an asshole. And "journalists" of her ilk are responsible for selling enough of the country on Bush in 2000. Fuck her.
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    It bothers me that people equate "the media" with lunatics like her.
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    11/07/08

    @Trixie from Toronto: Um...cuz she is in the media, babes. Quite a big and notable one to boot. Add to her that idiot Frank Rich and Judith Miller, too. Obvs, not ALL the media is like her. But when the NY Times kicks her ass to the curb maybe they'd regain some respect.
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    11/07/08

    @SinisterRouge: Piss off, whore. She's a columnist who lost it a long time ago. She is not a reporter/
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    11/08/08

    @Trixie from Toronto: Fuck you, bitch. She's a well-known "journalist" You can't pick and choose who's in the tent. She's right the fuck ini it.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    Hooray, Hopey is President and now everybody associated with the White House will shit rainbows that smell like happiness!


    Except Maureen Dowd, who will spend the next eight years in the peanut gallery trying to pry the unicorn horn out from up from her haughty, cynical anus.

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    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    Assholes. She’s been diagnosed with Dowd Syndrome.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/07/08

    @iplaudius: Ha!
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    How could the White House be classy when the Clintons were turning it into Motel 1600 for fund-raising, when Bill Clinton was using it for trysts with an intern and when he plunked a seven-seat hot tub with two Moto-Massager jets on the lawn?


    For fuck's sake, Pareene! You just can't pass up a fucking opportunity to bash the Clintons, can you?

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    11/07/08

    @Moff: Sorry.
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    11/07/08

    @Moff: That's not fair! He's sexist -- he can totally pass up an opportunity to bash Bill.
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    11/07/08

    @Meg: I forgot! But Bill is married to Hillary, and was written about by Maureen Dowd—whom Pareene is also bashing.


    Pareene wants Roe v. Wade repealed, as well as all abortions performed in the last 35 years retroactively nullified. He also advocates foot binding. Q.E.D.

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    11/07/08

    @Moff: Ugh. What a prick! Maybe he can be Palin's running mate in 2012.
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    11/07/08

    @Moff: See that -- I can't tell if you're being serious!
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    11/07/08

    @Helman: I was joking about everything except for Pareene advocating foot binding.
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    Image of Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou
    11/07/08

    @Helman: Don't worry, sometimes Moff is a can, sometimes a cant.:)
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    Image of Helman Helman
    11/07/08

    @Un Chien Andalou: Heh.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to In New Era, Maureen Dowd Will Still Be Terrible
    I don't know who this woman is, have never read her column. I have also never seen any of the High School Musical movies. In summary: I win!
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