Chattering class crone
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to understand that anyone who obsesses over their insecurities may sometimes lose rationality and lash out -- at anyone.
Such is the case with Maureen Dowd, Ogress of Snobbery and designated Alpha Shrew for the Democrat Party organ, The New York Times.
The B2J doesn't usually feature any of State-run Media's elite propagandists, but after reading Dowd's lastest hit piece on Governor Sarah Palin, an exception is required. In the past, Dowd has spluttered forth dozens of hurtful,
hateful fantasies about Palin, her family, special needs child Trig, Alaska, and Alaskans.
However, Dowd has outdone even her own benchmark for slime, but only after checking whatever civility, professionalism, and journalistic integrity she has left at the Times' entrance.
Haughty harpy
Miss Dowd's latest wart-tinged drivel clearly illustrates her pretentious disdain for Palin, average Americans such as you and me, and anyone else whom she perceives as beneath her and thus naturally contemptible.
And it is also indicative that she will use any back-alley allegations, tasteless, unverified clothesline gossip, and denigrating insults to do so. Dowd is the Baby Boomer Queen of baseless accusation.
The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and her mimicry of fellow filth slinger Todd Purdum's disingenuous, sleaze-ridden twaddle in Vanity Fair speaks volumes.
Privileged pomposity
Born to a Washington D.C. police inspector in 1952, Dowd was afforded a comfortable upbringing, quality education, and immediate employment after university in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the Washington Star. She has been employed in State-run Media ever since.
That's it. Nothing else. Just another button-down amongst millions plying her wares along the New York-to-Washington Corridor. No other extended lifestyle experience, certainly no deep-rooted comprehension of the lives, mores, or traditions firmly established throughout the rest of America -- which is predictably nothing more than Flyover Country to Dowd.
Hate from envy?
Dowd has viciously and relentlessly attacked Governor Palin, her family, and her lifestyle for more than ten months. Why? Douglas MacKinnon attempts to explain in a recent article entitled Palin, Vanity Fair, Envy, and Hate. MacKinnon believes Dowd may be threatened or envious of Palin... or both.
If one were to judge from her offensive, polysyllabic, metaphor-laden harangues, Maureen Dowd must think herself terribly clever, terribly amusing, terribly waggish. She is not; she is simply terrible, without humor, and a person with issues.
There is no humor in promoting unjust public contempt and unfounded public ridicule.
Hype and Chains.