Oh, Maureen. There You Go Again.
Rolling one's eyes at Maureen Dowd is probably just too easy--an exercise in shooting fish in a barrel--so I'll keep this brief. Writing today of the Tea Party, she tosses off this line:
The first African-American president, who wrote in his memoir that he trained himself as a young man not to let his anger show in a suspicious white society, now faces anger on an unprecedented scale from a mostly white movement.
Oh, Maureen, Maureen, my frolicsome little mischief-making leprechaun. You're actually smarter than that, I know. I greatly admired your piece about Saudi Arabia. So I'm sure you actually do realize that white people are in the majority in America--that's why they call non-whites "minorities"--and that therefore any random grouping of Americans would be mostly white.
I'm pretty sure from the way you've phrased it, though, that you're trying to suggest the movement is "mostly racist." That doesn't really elevate the tone.
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Re: Oh, Maureen. There You Go Again.
I'm afraid, Claire, that the shrillness from the Left will only increase over the coming weeks before the election. It's all they have left.
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In the spirit of Rob's most recent NR essay, I think we should, from now on, refer to the NY Times writers as "mostly white." As in, "Maureen Dowd, one of the NY Times' mostly-white op-ed writers, opines today that ...."
Jun '10
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I wood like to extend a most cordull invatashun to Ms. Dowd to actually attend a tea party. We could handle some serpents, listen to sum preach'n, an maybe later burn a cross or too. I'd like her to meet my kin, easy to spot cuz we got six fingers on each hand, and maybe I'll let uncle Ray outta the basement to do his drooling act. I might even fill the bed of my pick-up with wurm budweiser an we can all go for a swim. We cud mebbe shoot some beer cans off the roof of the neighbors trailor befor the bonfire. I unnerstand that Elvis will be there in person along with speshul guest Jack Daniels.
May '10
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Mark Steyn, National Post, March 18 2003: "The New York Times' elderly schoolgirl columnist Maureen Dowd".
Re: Oh, Maureen. There You Go Again.
That is precisely what we should do -- and we should do it for MSNBC as well.
Sep '10
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Perhaps taking this a tad too seriously --. As I said in a comment on another thread and as Drudge's headline this morn highlights, the lefties now have a meme about all the "scary" TP traits. One of these relates to the supposed fact that women don't like anger in politicians. MoDo's audience is primarily upper class white women; that explains her column today.
Aug '10
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But, for a hyper-partisan, elevating the tone is only an objective when you're winning and you want to score free points without looking like you're lording it over the other guy.
When they're facing an stinging electoral defeat... they're more concerned with throwing bombs and hoping no one notices. Civility goes out the window when you're about to have your beloved "mandate" revoked by those pesky voters.
Jul '10
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Were we ever really expecting Maureen to elevate the tone? Though while the tone is spiralling downwards, I'd like to pitch the idea of a talk show jointly hosted by her and Christine O'Donnell. Maybe with a cooking segment featuring Alvin Greene? Or he could just bark at the audience. (And can someone explain to me how his candidacy is somehow less horrifying than O'Donnell's? I mean, she's not on the sex offender registry at least...)
May '10
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I like it.
Claire Berlinski, Ed.:
There's actually a grain of truth here, though Dowd was probably completely unaware of it.
In the U.S. (perhaps everywhere), poor people tend to favor more powerful and unrestrained expressions of emotions and points of view, while wealthier people tend to expect more reserved behavior and more hedging. Thus, poor people often mistake behavior of the rich for haughtiness and condescension, while rich people often perceive the behavior of the poor as impolite, overbearing and melodramatic. Of course, people really can be stuck up or inconsiderate, but misperceptions are common between subcultures.
So a person might reasonably feel pressured into being more reserved (or, conversely, feel ashamed for being so reserved) when interacting within another subculture.
Jul '10
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"Oh, Maureen, Maureen, my frolicsome little mischief-making leprechaun"
As insults go, that is right up there with anything, anything, by Winston Churchill. Splendid.
Aug '10
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what was that about a vasopressin rate ? where do these womyn get their mercurial attitudes about commitment anyway ? these doxies ! these montanes !
yegads. the truth has a longer half-life at the NYT than the musings of Modo.
and where is the professional courtesy clause about casting aspersions on another sister's coven ? what's up with that ?
Aug '10
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heathermc: "Oh, Maureen, Maureen, my frolicsome little mischief-making leprechaun"
As insults go, that is right up there with anything, anything, by Winston Churchill. Splendid. · Sep 20 at 10:55am
And if that were my paper, Ma am, I'd eat it.