This week, Maureen Dowd’s Big Sexxxy Sunday Column contains exactly one interesting thought: “Obama is the victim of the elevated expectations he so skillfully created in 2008.” Well that is very fascinating, Maureen! That would even make a good Thesis for a Column. Too bad this cogent statement arrives 85 percent of the way into an otherwise muddled word salad.
Oy, does this one start with a hell of a zinger aimed directly at OBAMA! “Atticus FLINCH” (OH SNAP MUTHAFUCKA!) is Our Lady of the Hackneyed Pun’s latest hilarious play on words. She thinks our lawyerly prezzy-dent waffled in his opinion regarding the mosque in Lower Manhattan. Hmm, this might be worth investigating further, in some sort of intelligent, well-reasoned analysis. Haha, but this is a Maureen Dowd column, so that is obviously not going to happen.
Instead, she abruptly moves on to attack the dummies who think Barack is an Islammedhan. And even though she just basically called him a flinchy wafflepants pussywillow a few sentences ago, she suddenly begins to defend him.
Obama is the head of the dysfunctional family of America — a rational man running a most irrational nation, a high-minded man in a low-minded age.
The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown, with the right spreading fear and disinformation that is amplified by the poisonous echo chamber that is the modern media environment.
LOL, what is the point of sticking with a “subject” anyway, in an Op-Ed piece? She tells us all about how that persnatchety Muslin rumor is the fault of the Right Wing Media. She blames pill fan and serial husband Rush Limbaugh, who is a giant piece of human excrement molded by scatological elves into a kind of talk radio golem. She also blames the Reverend Franklin Graham, who is exactly the sort of sweet-talkin’ son of a preacher man who drove Dusty Springfield to eat box (and drugs).
Then we move on to a new paragraph, which means it’s time for Dowd to zig-zag her way to yet another self-contradiction! Whee! This is what a lifetime of white wine spritzers for breakfast will do to a writer. She goes on to blame Obama for … the thing for which she just blamed Limbaugh and Graham!
The president who is always talking about wanting to be perfectly clear is ever more opaque. The One, who owes his presidency to the intense feeling he stirred up, turns out to be a practical guy who can’t deal with intense feeling.
What? Who? One cannot shake the “intense feeling” that Maureen Dowd has lost the capacity for “linear thought,” in her “brain region.”
Ramble on, MoDo!
Too lofty to pay heed to the daily bump and grind of politics, Obama has failed to present himself as someone with the common touch. And to the extent that people don’t know him or don’t get him, he becomes easier to demonize.
Haha she made a reference to fucksies; Charlie Rose just blew a dusty load in his shorts.
Let’s review this Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest scattershot mind-vom thus far. Obama is a “rational” and “high-minded” gent in a nation of dumb fucks who believe everything Rush Limbaugh says (true!) Therefore, it is Obama’s fault everyone thinks he is a Muslim (?!?!?)
Did Madame Dowd generate this waterfall of nuttery over laudanum tea in the labyrinth parlor with Sally Quinn? [New York Times]
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Sara Benincasa = Ken Layne?
I never have seen them in the same hot tub together ….
Okay, the part about Limbaugh being a talk radio shit golem was really good.
“She also blames the Reverend Franklin Graham, who is exactly the sort of sweet-talkin’ son of a preacher man who drove Dusty Springfield to eat box (and drugs).” = *opera clap* Good show, Ms. Benincasa!
Also, didn’t the whole bowling incident in the primaries prove Obama doesn’t have “the common touch”? That he actually IS better than the vast herds of racist, stupid, fat slobs that populate this country? And that people didn’t care, because they actually want someone who knows what the hell he’s doing doing things?
“Persnatchety.” No idea what it means, but it’s definitely le mot juste, as the Swedes say.
Brian Williams has really put on some weight!
Also, Dowd’s (not-valid) point seems to be that Obama is only the President of smart people. Rush is president of everyone else. It is confusing, as the Constitution does not indicate how this is possible.
Hope you had a good show on Sat. night Sara.
Sara, are you saying a metaphor for MoDo’s topical coherence is a popcorn popper with the lid off.
I know, I know that is showing my oldz. Since the microwave and all many of you kids have never made popcorn on the range so you haven’t a clue what I’m talking about.
People compared Obama to Atticus Finch as frequently as people compared Dowd to a great columnist. Never happened.
Another lie by Maureen Dowdy. See, I can make a word into another word by adding one letter. I can haz big column now?
Totally a typical guy unable to deal with intense feelings. Also, leaves the toilet seat up on Air Force 1. That Michelle does have nice arms, the bitch. Barry doesn’t know how lucky he is. In conclusion, let’s do lunch. Where’s my check?
p.s. “a giant piece of human excrement molded by scatological elves into a kind of talk radio golem” — whee!, indeed.
Dowd’s completely wrong here; it doesn’t matter whether or not Obama shows the “common touch” or whatever other bullshit she comes up with, the wingnuts will believe whatever conspiracy theory about him is put in front of him because of his skin color and the (D) usually next to his name.
I wonder why professional pundits even bother to try to analyze the president’s increasing unpopularity in a country where the government is held directly responsible for the performance of the private sector, despite the fact that any attempt to exercise government control over the private sector viewed negatively by a majority of the same population.
You’d hope instead of concentrating on commenting on every changing second of one person’s popularity, they’d use their analytical skills and vast amount of information at their disposal to analyze and recommend plausible solutions, or at least educate the public in an honest way about the actual causes of our current economic problems (instead of the usual scapegoating and/or cheerleading using oversimplifications and sloganeering).
Or maybe they are really just as big of fucking retards as their readers.
I used to have a thing for Dusty Springfield. And Buffalo Springfield. They just don’t make Springfields like they used to.
[re=643611]weejee[/re]: “made popcorn on the range”
you were a pioneer? damn, that is old.
Sara– did you seriously compose that masterpiece on your Blackberry?
Wow, you just keep getting awesomer and awesomer.
Kudos Sara on mixing excrement with Hebrew folklore and flinging it rightly at Rusty Sharpe (all with Blackberry in hand, presumably); you’re like some sort of genius mega-baboon!
[re=643633]Norbert[/re]: Not that range you silly. However, when I was a kid in like the second or third grad I did ask my mother if she remembered when Lincoln got shot. She was born in 1920, so that didn’t go over so well. What did I know, she was over 13 so she was an olde. Guess when you’re 80 something you call those over a C-note an old fart. So it goes.
Thank you for reading Maureen Dowd so I don’t have to.
[re=643648]weejee[/re]: When he was about 5, my brother once asked our father “were you alive in the olden days?”
Hmmmmm….maybe Maureen Dowd slums at wonkette using the screen handle Jack Stuef?
But enough talk about douche bags. Seriously, this who “It’s Obama’s fault people have unrealistic expectations” and “It’s Obama’s fault that people have a problem with his skin color” BS is beyond stupid. America is stupid. Full stop!
[re=643600]Vulpes82[/re]: Yes, the whole reason I liked Obama in the first place was that he didn’t have “the common touch”, which, roughly translated into mid-America speak, means “He’s as fucking stupid as me! Let’s have a beer with ‘im and git ‘er dun!!”
[re=643628]BarackMyWorld[/re]: amen amen amen
So all Obama needs to do is pull a Bush & hold a photo-op at a two-bit county-fair somewhere in Banjostan, where he’s spraying spit all over the press-corps with half a corndog flopping around in his cakehole?
MoDo = Poo Radley.
She wishes she were Bill Hicks but winds up being Carrot Top.
[re=643736]lulzmonger[/re]: The thing is, whenever he does something like that the press makes up some bullshit reason to criticize him for it, like the low bowling score or somehow proving that he’s all fancy by putting Grey Poupon on his burger.
So is the headline suggesting that MoDo is enough of a (word) contortionist to toss her own salad? Makes sense to me . . .
Yes, I’m stunned, STUNNED, that forty percent of America claims not to know Barack Obama’s religion. After all, he goes to church every Sunday. Oh, wait…
Getting back to the point, Maureen’s a twit.
[re=643633]Norbert[/re]: We had to melt our own butter on it, to keep the buffaloes from eating it.
Too lofty to pay heed to the daily bump and grind of politics, Obama has failed to present himself as someone with the common touch.
That’s not fair, Maureen: Obama don’t see nothin’ wrong with a little bump and grind.
[re=643812]GreatRightHope[/re]: He goes to church just as often as Great Leader St. Ronnie and Dear Leader Shrub Jong Il, and I don’t remember anyone suggesting they were Muslims. Ya big poopyhead.
Why does this MoDo person have your Pulitzer Prize Sara?
[re=643658]Norbert[/re]: We were all alive in the olden days.
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