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Thought Process Flowchart: Maureen Dowd
Maureen has finally been explained—by Maureen Dowd. The explanation came in response to a column by the Times' public editor Clark Hoyt in which he said that Dowd's writing about Hillary Clinton was "loaded with language painting her as a 50-foot woman with a suffocating embrace," and compared her coverage with that of Chris Matthews, Mike Barnicle, Tucker Carlson and William Kristol (what a fun dinner that would be).
But Modo fired right back, explaining that she's forcing "the reader to be conscious of how differently we view the sexes." Which always seems to work out like this: Maureen likes Republican tough guys, helps them get elected, and then about a year into tough guy Republican's administration, Maureen realizes the election wasn't about which guy she'd rather have sexual intercourse with.
In other words, Maureen has some kind of issue with her father. And it's working itself out, twice a week, year after year, in the pages of the New York Times. So what's Maureen thinking when she puts together one of her advanced gender studies seminars columns?
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Stephen Colbert talks to the audience and does a little Q & A as a pre-show warm-up. I was there once the night after Maureen had been the guest.
During the Q & A, someone in the audience asked Colbert why he hadn't asked her any serious hard-hitting journalism-type questions and instead just done a puff piece on her new book. Colbert looked a bit confused and then replied he couldn't imagine why anyone would ask Maureen Dowd a serious journalism question; she's like a high-school gossip columnist, and it would be silly to expect her to answer questions like a journalist.
I thought that captured her perfectly.
BD
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