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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot even "the alternative is the abyss" gives MoDo a moral compass. She can have all of the abyss.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/18/the-mystery-of-being-maureen-dowd.html
[font size=5]The Mystery of Being Maureen Dowd[/font]
Lloyd GROVE
.... Former top Obama aide David Axelrod revealed in his 2015 memoir Believer that when Dowd interviewed the then-senator aboard his 2008 campaign plane, Obama proceeded to blister her for a previous column she had written. No one got under Baracks skin more than Maureen
He was patronizing and disrespectful
After that awkward encounter, Axelrod continued, she seemed to take particular delight in psychoanalyzing Barack and belittling him in print, which only deepened his contempt
Why are you friends with her? he would demand after Maureen sent one of her acid darts his way. ....
With Trumplike Bush 43, Quayle and Palinyoud think that if somehow you fell into clover and youre on your partys ticket, you would get a tutor and study 12 hours a day. But they never do. Palin didnt know where Iraq was, and Dubya didnt know about Medicare, and Trump doesnt know anything. If you get rewarded for a lack of something, you dont think of fixing it, and it would never have occurred to any of them to think about (their) worthiness (for the job). ....
She added: There is plenty to reproach Trump for, and I do. But that doesnt mean that Hillary is above reproach. I think its really bad for democracythis idea that she should get a pass, that no one should say anything critical about her because [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the alternative is the abyss[/FONT], as she said at a fundraiser. I dont think thats a healthy attitude. ....
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stopbush
(24,396 posts)UTUSN
(70,708 posts)"For the *FIFTY* people who watch that show...!1"
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Bitter, angry, and HATEFUL person is she is.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Believe me, I know from deathwishes, and I'm sure our media culture has one.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Perhaps she had a tortured upbringing. Searing acid sarcasm is her modus operandi. It's what she sweetens her morning coffee with.
I liked her 20 years ago, but the way she writes makes me think she's too needy of something. Awed admiration perhaps. Or maybe she just wants to see blood too much.