post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Just kidding. The only thing I have to say about Sarah Palin today is that she is in the news. I am a newsman. That is why I have been writing about her the last couple of days. It's not because I am in some circle of hell with Maureen Dowd, as mugsy puts it, or loving her or hating her in an emotional fog. How dare he say this when all my fogs are due to beer. She is in the news. Duh! Get over it,...
The Blue Voice (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Maureen Dowd provides an example of why Sarah Palin is not only a star within the Republican Party. She also has the potential for a wider appeal. MoDo's Palin piece is Rogue American Woman New York Times 11/17/09. There are two basic problems with MoDo's article. It treats Palin as a pop-culture celebrity, not as a politician with a potentially huge effect on public policy. And in treating Palin's...
The Paragraph Farmer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Hey, Andrew Sullivan : Even if your dubious premise about the value of sniping at Sarah Palin's memoir is correct, it would be a "civic responsibility," not a "civil responsibility." You and your flunkies aren't the least bit "civil" when declaiming ( 17 times in one day !) about all things Palin. And you'd best avoid getting into a war of words with people who can craft...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Columnist Maureen Dowd approached reading Sarah Palin's book with trepidation, worried she might learn that she is not a real American, just another dread "enlightened elite."
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Maureen Dowd's column today is a list of ways that she is just Sarah Palin. I was beginning to panic. I pored over the book to see if there was anything that I shared in common with this apotheosis...
The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Twice in two days we've come across an incorrect use of the verb "coin." Today's misuse appeared in Maureen Dowd's column. To coin a phrase or word means to invent it. Sarah Palin did NOT coin the phrase " bass-ackward s." The spoonerism has been around for years. For years! Let's not give Palin any more credit than she deserves. Feel free to interpret that as you will. http://spogg.org...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
MAUREEN DOWD gets more flack for her recent comments on Goldman Sachs: Maureen Dowd mines an anti-Semitic theme The New York Times columnist crosses a line in her condemnation of Goldman Sachs. by Menachem Z. Rosensaft and Jason H. Dolinsky November 13, 2009 ( New Jersey Jewish News ) We do not believe New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to be an anti-Semite. Nor is she either stupid or unaware of...
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Jack Kemp The New York Post's Andrea Peyser points out this Monday http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/confronting_ugly_truth_about_us_n2Wgd245AorCYLybodxaXP/1 that Maureen Dowd has been using phrases like "blood-sucking banks" in an article, similar to a phrase used by both Adolph Hitler and Louis Farrakhan in relation to the Jews. To quote her piece, 'In case you missed her point, Dowd...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Are Tea Parties Racist? Sifting through the anti-Obama-hysteria hysteria Matt Welch In retrospect, I suppose I should be surprised it took as long as eight months for someone to accuse me of racism in my criticism of Barack Obama. After all, by September 11, when Salon Editor in Chief Joan Walsh wrote that my “strange slur” against the president was a textbook example of “the racial...
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Mark Ndesandjo, the once intensely private half-brother of President-elect Barack Obama talks to the Telegraph in China. Remember the treatise from Maureen Dowd on the relationship of George W. Bush, to his father? Recall the vigor in which the press seized the chalice from her dowdy hands and carped and analyzed about GWB and George the elder. Theories and speculation shuddered through the media and...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
I find Joseph Bottum’s column on Archbishop Timothy Dolan a depressing mixture of fiction, misinformation and arrogance (“Dolan’s Crusade,” PostScript, Nov. 8). Bottum writes: “There’s no doubt that [Maureen] Dowd’s smug and nasty literary device mak...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Bruce Maiman When people talk about talk radio, I take interest. When Maureen Dowd delivered on this page a less-than-flattering take on Rush Limbaugh, like you, I read the column. But when readers reacted passionately and with predictable partisanship, it occurred to me, why bother? I understand: Having launched his syndicated career here, Rush is something of a "favorite son" in Sacramento....
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Appearing on Friday’s CBS Early Show to discuss the release of Sarah Palin’s book, ‘Going Rogue,’ author Ann Coulter told co-host Harry Smith: “[John] McCain...was the media’s favorite Republican. So any criticism his side made of Palin was instantly printed and now we finally get the pay back. And I’m looking forward to it.” Coulter made the comment...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
By my count, it's been six months since your last Obama-Spock comparison , so here's some material to inspire you, from a Boston Phoenix interview with Leonard Nimoy : I’ve met Obama a couple of times. The first time, my wife and I went to a very modest luncheon, very early, when he was just starting to put himself out there as a candidate. We were waiting for him outside on the back patio of...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
MAUREEN DOWD is taken to task by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield at Beliefnet for some unfortunate comparisons in a column on Goldman Sachs: IS MAUREEN DOWD AN ANTI-SEMITE? Thursday November 12, 2009 Categories: Judaism, News, Politics, Pop Culture, Religion The short answer is almost certainly not. But after yesterday's column in the New York Times , many people are asking, and not without some justification....
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