She's been on a roll lately, but IB's take on the new Richard Cohen column is one of her better lines:He's kinda like a kid who, upon discovering that there is no Santa Claus, attempts to locate the precise moment in time that Jolly St....
the Dowdification of American political journalism
Bob Somerby correctly notes that Palin's extravagant claim that she "told Congress thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere" is simply an "outright lie." And this is true.
Bob Somerby makes what I would like to think is an obvious point about Michael Crowley's complaint about Obama returning to his home state for vacation. It's not just that.
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 the State of Perfect Complacent Vapidity has been achieved.And what's worse is that they weren't...
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.
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 authoritarian philosophy. Dowd always says she's speaking truth to power, but her obsession with "playing...
Maureen Dowd. (See also.)
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.
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.
Dahlia Lithwick infers them:1. It’s not sexism if it's women trashing women.2. Writing by women about women need not be held to the same critical or analytical standards as writing.