May God help any man or woman who ever marries that woman...
Aanya
· 1 year ago
If Obama is elected Prez, what in the world will MoDo write about?
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I hope that she will be as tough on him as she has been on Bush. The only way our government can properly function is when there is a true Fourth Estate.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
To have a true 4th estate, we need to end corporate control of MSM. Consolidated corporate control of the media is FASCISM, pure and simple.
Free press, not corporate profit press.
Aanya
· 1 year ago
I have lost all respect for the Fourth Estate, and with organizations like Fox News and everything else Rupert owns, it isn't too hopeful that anything will improve. Lately the only true reporting on the MSM has been on NBC and MSNBC. Dan Abrams has really come along, and Keith Olbermann is a" National Treasure"! If Obama is the 44th President, I honestly believe that it will be the blogs that demand transparency and complete honesty in the Oval Office from now on. I can't see any of us giving Obama a "pass" and allowing the debacle that was the Bush administration, to ever happen again!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Aanya, you are very right. The future of news is the blogsphere. The TV MSM is basically trash now. Even PBS has been watered down to pablum, although I think Jim Lehrer is still trying his best, without losing their funding, to keep at least SOME good fairness debate going. But the News Hour has lost some of the edge it had when MacNeil was there. I do like to watch Washington Week with Gwen Ifill when I have the time. Or TIVO it. Otherwise there is nothing out there that really pushes the edges of left and progressive thinking.
The government had better get control of this new fangled "the blogs" if they wanna keep their little white straight boys club in power.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Looks like we have a horse race; may the least effectual candidate win:
The republicans are scared to death of Obama. He's a democrat and he has brains. Rove et al just can't deal with this reality.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Rove's slide into irrelevancy is beautiful to watch
Zorba
· 1 year ago
A refreshing change for Mo Dowd, who has spent a whole lot of time trashing other Democratic candidates, recently and in the past. Maybe she's had a change of heart....or maybe not. She was spanked by the ombudsman of the New York Times (I think they call it "public editor") last Sunday, and maybe she's afraid of losing the Times contract. Although I agree with Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas, below, who wants her to be tough on Obama, as she has been with Bush. I just would rather have her trash Obama (or any other Dems) for substantive reasons, and not for the trivial.
popebuck1
· 1 year ago
Or maybe she just sees the writing on the wall, and realizes that shilling for Republicans and continuing to attack Democrats has little or no future in it after November 2008.
Come to think of it, the last thing I want to see is a repeat of 1992, when the press corps was absolutely in love with Bill Clinton, right up until the moment he got into office - at which point he suddenly turned into the Devil.
warsaw
· 1 year ago
She'll never lose her job at the Times. If you've ever been to a Times staff party where all the top guys and girls are in attendance you've seen how the center of gravity of the room tilts to whereever she sits. (She always sits.) Even Frank Rich is pulled into the vortex of Modo and her girl gang (Alessandra Stanley and MIchiko Kakutani are the other members.) They rule the room like uber-mean girls.
Zorba
· 1 year ago
Somehow, that does not surprise me. I can absolutely believe it.
warsaw
· 1 year ago
Modo doesn't want to be seen as creating any negative meme about Obama that might lead to her being blamed for contributing to a loss for him. She had no similar scruples about Bill or Hillary Clinton. she was fearless about hammering away at Hillary and we have to acknowledge her for pointing out continuously and relentlessly about Clenis' wrongness in the political life of this century. I think MoDo will hold her tongue until he does something to dis her personally. Then she will be unforgiving. She's a very vain woman.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
On FISA Obama has proven that he is a chump, fraud, coward, disrespectful of the Constitution and a slave to corporate interests like most other current politicians
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The FOX curse...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
It wouldn't be same sex marriage; it would be "no-sex" marriage. Yes, I'm three sheets. Please be kind....
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
I received an email from a conservative friend in Florida with the subject line: "Idiot quote of the Century".
This was the "idiot" quote: 'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' - Barack Obama
I asked my friend if that was the best he could do; especially after 8 years of George Bush's malapropisms or John McCain's bloopers and demented pronoucements. I told him I was tired of pandering to the lowest common denominator of the Republican Party/American dingbat voter. It's like a breath of fresh air wafting away the stench of turds with blossoms in them to hear intelligence in the air again.
ThingsComeUndone
· 1 year ago
The only way this country is going to stay the greatest nation on earth is if we keep changing/improving it. I'm sure conservatives complained after the wheel was invented and after every new tech since then like cloning, and stemcells. Remember Columbus all the conservatives thought that the world was flat!
Busboy
· 1 year ago
tb, you're much too rational to be on this blog...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
woodroad, that WAS an idiot quote. However, McCain has the upload on idiot quotes as things stand now. I may be voting for the vicepresidential candidate; whoever the poor suckers may be...
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
the U.S. government-funded Arabic news channel, paid former Bush and Clinton administration officials, lobbyists and high-profile Washington journalists tens of thousands of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to appear on the network as commentators
Maureen and Rove could be a Carville/Matalin combo. Stretch that out...
Zorba
· 1 year ago
Oh, now, THAT would be a pairing made in Hell. Although I'd love to be a fly on the wall to listen to their disagreements.....
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
there'd be nothing left of Karl but a little puddle of grease!
ThingsComeUndone
· 1 year ago
Is Modo goig to the Netroots Nation thing is she trying to make nice?
mirth
· 1 year ago
I've read Dowd for years and generally like what she writes, but here's what I do not like in this column:
"If he means that Obama has brains, what’s wrong with that? If he means that Obama is successful, what’s wrong with that? If he means that Obama has education and intellectual sophistication, what’s wrong with that?
Many of Obama’s traits are the traits that people in the population aspire to."
So many of the political pundits express these same points, that we citizens are lacking success and intelligence and sophistication and we "aspire" to be like them (or in this case, like Obama)..
Well this person in the population shares with my fellow citizens our own achievements and intellectual sophistication equaling or surpassing yours, you elitist, patronizing wanker.
What we want is honest, effective, moral government and journalism integrity.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Manipulating stupid voters works for a while - until the results accrue.
Poor Karl Rove. Even mediocre people are figuring out that the Repugs are full of it.
NumberSix
· 1 year ago
Sorry, Mo.
Obama's stance on the FISA bill reeks of chumpiness. What point is there in rejecting the money from lobbyists, and then turning around and giving them just what they want? The only message that sends is that he works cheap.
This is so uncharacteristic of Obama that I just can't wrap my head around it. I would prefer him to McCain for prez, but I'm not very inclined to vote for someone who won't aggressively defend the Constitution.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Mirth has "mo" figured. Is Mirth a conservative "5th columnist" in a liberal encampment?
mirth
· 1 year ago
LOL I've been called a socialist, but never a conservative.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
sometimes the ends come together.... "come together, right now!...over me". Was that a song?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Zorba, the sex could be incredible; but, not the aftermath...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
tls? a little puddle of grease? Is that an attempt at humor? Saints preserve us!....
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
get off my case potato face.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
OK, for today....
kh7463
· 1 year ago
I just read a few minutes ago on another blog that Obama has now decided to accept public funds. Any truth to that? I really liked the idea of him not using public funds.
joshuasgrandma
· 1 year ago
Dowd only obliquely refers to the gross irony of Rove portraying Obama as a member of the 'countryclub' set - Has anyone noticed the one of the main features of Rovian framing is 'Projection' - accusing the opposition of the very qualities you yourself are most guilty of. It's a classic psychological defense mechanism - to deflect attention from your own sins by accusing other of them.
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Free press, not corporate profit press.
is basically trash now. Even PBS has been watered down to pablum, although I
think Jim Lehrer is still trying his best, without losing their funding, to
keep at least SOME good fairness debate going. But the News Hour has lost
some of the edge it had when MacNeil was there. I do like to watch
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill when I have the time. Or TIVO it. Otherwise
there is nothing out there that really pushes the edges of left and
progressive thinking.
The government had better get control of this new fangled "the blogs" if
they wanna keep their little white straight boys club in power.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108376/Gallup-Daily-...
Wes Clark For Obama
http://www.actblue.com/page/clark4obama
Come to think of it, the last thing I want to see is a repeat of 1992, when the press corps was absolutely in love with Bill Clinton, right up until the moment he got into office - at which point he suddenly turned into the Devil.
This was the "idiot" quote: 'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' - Barack Obama
I asked my friend if that was the best he could do; especially after 8 years of George Bush's malapropisms or John McCain's bloopers and demented pronoucements. I told him I was tired of pandering to the lowest common denominator of the Republican Party/American dingbat voter. It's like a breath of fresh air wafting away the stench of turds with blossoms in them to hear intelligence in the air again.
Remember Columbus all the conservatives thought that the world was flat!
http://www.propublica.org/feature/alhurra-paid-...
"If he means that Obama has brains, what’s wrong with that? If he means that Obama is successful, what’s wrong with that? If he means that Obama has education and intellectual sophistication, what’s wrong with that?
Many of Obama’s traits are the traits that people in the population aspire to."
So many of the political pundits express these same points, that we citizens are lacking success and intelligence and sophistication and we "aspire" to be like them (or in this case, like Obama)..
Well this person in the population shares with my fellow citizens our own achievements and intellectual sophistication equaling or surpassing yours, you elitist, patronizing wanker.
What we want is honest, effective, moral government and journalism integrity.
Poor Karl Rove. Even mediocre people are figuring out that the Repugs are full of it.
Obama's stance on the FISA bill reeks of chumpiness. What point is there in rejecting the money from lobbyists, and then turning around and giving them just what they want? The only message that sends is that he works cheap.
This is so uncharacteristic of Obama that I just can't wrap my head around it. I would prefer him to McCain for prez, but I'm not very inclined to vote for someone who won't aggressively defend the Constitution.
I've been called a socialist, but never a conservative.