The Questioning Christian

Maureen Dowd is an Egotistical Twit

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D. C. Toedt III

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I generally avoid reading Maureen Dowd’s column in the NY Times.  I couldn’t help but notice that her column of yesterday, My Private Idaho, excoriating President Bush for moving his base of operations to Texas for five weeks, is #1 on the Times’s most-emailed list this morning.

Reading the column merely confirmed my opinion that Dowd is a vacuous, self-important twit.  I never cease to be amazed at how virulent she can be in denigrating anyone who doesn’t meet her exalted standards (translation:  anyone who doesn’t agree with her views on How Things Ought To Be).  Dowd seems implacably opposed to admitting that President Bush might have any redeeming qualities to him, or that his so-called vacations aren’t exactly piña coladas on the beach.  It must be nice to be a Mistress of the Universe, able to shower down vitrol from the Times’s Olympian heights, without bearing any responsibility for little things like, oh, world peace or the lives of American military personnel.

I now return to my practice of not reading her stuff.

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4 responses to “Maureen Dowd is an Egotistical Twit”

  1. bls Avatar
    bls

    Don’t hold back, D.C. Tell us how you really feel.
    😉

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  2. bls Avatar
    bls

    (I agree about Dowd, BTW – I can’t stand her, either. I just cannot stand ideologues these days; there’s something really wrong, that they have so much power and influence today.
    My thinking is that we should conduct a righteous Via Media uprising against everybody who wants to force on us their own idea of How Things Ought To Be. The sad part is that ideological thinking is most often very shallow and unformed and contemptuous of empirical evidence – yet they look down their noses at everybody else.
    I’m sick unto death of it.)

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  3. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    Amen, bls. Here’s to the radical non-dogmatic middle!

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  4. Norris Battin Avatar
    Norris Battin

    With Gail Collin on the adjacent page you have a true dynamic duo in postmodern Gotham.

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