State-controlled Harpie
Maureen Dowd, distaff pit viper of the snark-infested cesspool known as 'The New York Times,' serves as the epitome of everything that is wrong with what passes for political analysis in state-run media. If only she owned a mirror...
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 and designated Alpha shrew for the Democrat Party house organ, The New York Times. Insecure? Why else would a 58-year-old use a glamour shot from more than 20 years ago as a press photo? Although savvy and smart, Dowd routinely hides these attributes and allows an inner ugliness to surface.
Her opinion pieces regularly rest upon the unstable pillars of gossip, innuendo, and meanness. It matters not that she is commonly wrong or purposefully deceitful - after all, it is the gravity of the aspersion and the degree of cruelty that are important. Normally, The B2J takes great pains to refrain from giving notice to state-run media's elite propagandists, but there are exceptions.
Today's exception is Dowd's October 16 hit piece, a venom-filled slurry on conservative women in general and Governor Jan Brewer and Sharron Angle in paricular. Dowd has gained ignominious notoriety for churning out hurtful, hateful fantasies about Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and other conservative women, but her latest scribbling is in the running to surpass even her benchmark for slime and clever cruelty.
Condescending crone
To her followers, Dowd serves as the poster girl for what passes as credible opinion journalism amidst the urbane elite; her twice-weekly column is popular. However, one must wonder at the mindset of those who enjoy her banal and sophomoric treatment of those she considers her inferiors. This is especially puzzling when one considers her consistent lack of civility, professionalism, and journalistic integrity.
Examples abound of Dowd's wart-pocked drivel, which clearly illustrates her pretentious disdain for strong, successful women, 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"Just another button-down amongst millions plying her wares along the liberal elite-infused I-95 Corridor." 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 speaks volumes.
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 as a lap dog in state-run media ever since. That's it. Nothing else. Just another button-down amongst millions plying her wares along the liberal elite-infused I-95 Corridor. Dowd possesses no other extended lifestyle experience, certainly no deep-rooted comprehension of the lives, mores, or traditions firmly established throughout the rest of America -- which to her is predictably nothing more than a vast wasteland teeming with rabble.
Fear or envy?
Allison Kilkenny took stock of an inner tension and bitterness in a 2008 portrayal of Dowd. Here is a bit of what she noted: "I can think of no two women that better illustrate the battle of good versus evil than Molly Ivans and Maureen Dowd. If we lived in a super hero movie, Maureen and Molly would fight with knives on a mountaintop. And in the final moment of the final scene, Molly would tear off Maureen's head, hold it up triumphantly and shout to the"Dowd has proven herself to be an habitually vicious and relentless blusterer." villagers below, YOU ARE FREE! Unlike Maureen's weekly abortions, Molly wrote brilliant columns and never sullied her readers' minds with anything less than kick-your-teeth-in wit and fearlessness."
Dowd has proven herself to be an habitually vicious and relentless blusterer. Why? Douglas MacKinnon attempted an explaination in an insightful 2009 article. MacKinnon believes "Dowd may be threatened or envious of strong, independent, conservative women like Palin ... or both." If one were to judge from her offensive, polysyllabic, metaphor-laden harangues, Maureen Dowd must think herself terribly clever, terribly amusing, and 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. Nor is there honor.
Hype and Chains for 15 more days.