I thought I was aware of most of the major pillars of Clinton-era foolishness, but I had no idea that there had been thigh-rubbing about Clinton having a hot tub (just like Saint Reagan, although the future Pulitzer Prize winner (!) MoDo neglected to mention...
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Peter Dreier and John Atlas break it down.In her own excellent article on the subject, Dahlia Lithwick has some good analysis of John Paul Stevens's unfortunate endorsement of the vote.
When you hear that the country's most prominent op-ed page can feature the Feng Shui Princess of Georgetown describing a conversation between Mike Barnicle and Margaret Carlson, you know that.
Shorter Verbatim MoDo: "Fictionalizing historical figures is fine. Fantasies about public figures are inevitable."Unlike (it seems) Somerby, I don't see the slightest problem with Sittenfeld using Laura Bush to write a roman a clef. I can't say it sounds especially promising, but the idea will...
What Digby said. Especially this:These negative "feminine" stereotypes not only perpetuate noxious myths about female and gay leadership abilities in the culture at large, they consistently favor the right wing.
Maureen Dowd. (See also.)
Shorter Verbatim Camille Paglia: "I for one have renewed questions about the 1993 suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, Hillary's former law partner and longtime friend, whose files were purged by Hillary's staff before they could be examined for evidence." Heckuva job, Salon!
MoDo seems regretful that she will have less reason (at least outside the context of blind dates) to snigger about Bill Clinton's sex life. But she holds out faint hope.
MoDo:Hillary and her posse pressed hard on their noble twin themes of emasculation and elitism.Yes. Hillary's theme.
You will be shocked to learn that Maureen Dowd's column today says that a male Democratic candidate is really a woman, and a female Democratic candidate is really a man/castrating bitch. And this crackpot nonsense is expressed entirely through witless cliches only Camille Paglia or...
Kathy unloads some snark on Maureen "Feminism Should Too Be My Dating Service!" Dowd for asserting that, whatever that condescending girly-man Barack Obama might think, she was never bitter:But there's.
When did Bob Owens get a gig with the NYT op-ed page? Nobody tells me anything anymore.