Tracking Maureen Dowd on Al Gore.

[NNadir]

I have never forgotten that Maureen Dowd translated the 2000 election - and other elections since - as though it were a fashion show.

Apparently someone else has not forgotten either:

Dowd now believes Gore "prescient" on several issues, despite previously belittling him...

...In a 2001 column, Dowd described Gore as "the champion of Kyoto and author of a chicken-little polemic warning of 'an ecological Kristallnacht' and 'wasteland.'" (8/5/01)...

...In 1999, Dowd claimed that "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he's practically lactating." (6/16/99)...

...In October 2000, Dowd wrote about how then-presidential candidate Bush was "still milking the flap over Naomi Wolf's alpha-male advice to Mr. Gore, the spectacle of a woman instructing a man how to be a man." (10/25/00)

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703010001

If you want to know why our country is not being run by grownups, you need to ask who defines what grow-up is.

[hatrack]

1. If Dowd were standing on the sidewalk with her dress on fire . . .

I wouldn't walk across the street to piss on her.

It's time for the Kool Kidz to have a big mug of STFU and let the rest of us have a chance at little things like recognizing reality.

Dowd is pretty much what you find on the bottom of unattended petri dishes, but a bit more glib and amusing.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I, on the other hand would at least do that, however

with an enlarged prostate, it might take a while to put the fire out.

[hatrack]

9. BWA-HAHHAHHAH!!!

:evilgrin:

[Joe Bacon]

2. The Daily Howler has a long dossier on Whoreen

Check out http://www.dailyhowler.com and look at Bob Somerby's incomparable archives which document every detail of Whoreen Dowd's Republican bias.

[Bucky]

3. I don't think if you call someone "Whoreen" you still get to complain about their immaturity

The first step to being one of the grown ups is acting like one. I'd apply that rule equally to Republicans and Democrats.

[Elidor]

5. Given a choice of Gore and Bush for targets...

She chose to mock Gore as a phony and a liar. She decided that Gore was guilty of self-importance and arrogance and barely noticed the blustering empty cowboy hat from Texas. It doesn't say much for her powers of discernment. What she does is not journalism: she is a pimple on the ass of journalism. She's part of the problem.

Nothing she will ever write in the future will change my opinion of her. She is without merit.

[NNadir]

7. Pimple on the ass of journalism?

:bounce: :yourock: :rofl:

[MasonJar]

6. Fortunately for me I never read Dowd pre-Bush. She has some cracker-

jack anti-Bushista articles. However, since Gore is my guy all the way, if I had seen the 2000 crap y'all describe, I would not be reading her today.

[Skittles]

8. I refuse to give her any kudos until she apologizes for being a whore

she was disgusting and she has never explained it

[tomreedtoon]

10. Bartcop said it first: She hates EVERYBODY.

Why anyone would pay attention to such an unconcerned, fashion-driven flake, I don't know. Unless she decided to copy the Bush method of how to be popular and influence people.