Comments on: Dear Maureen Dowd,

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:32:12 +0000

Hillary Clinton has run such an incompetent campaign. One wonders if this is how she would run a government.

Sorry but after the job Bush has done I feel more comfortable taking my chances with Obama.

By: Kim@Religiarchy

Kim@Religiarchy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:43:28 +0000

Dowd is absolutely a disaster and if the NY Times had any class left, they’d stop publishing her ridiculousness!

talknormal: I think you hit it on the head.

By: Smartpatrol

Smartpatrol — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:06:46 +0000

McCain is the one getting the hero treatment and the perpetual free ride. That shit has got to stop.

Double-Ewe-Oh-Arr-Dee Word.

By: Smartpatrol

Smartpatrol — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:55:35 +0000

I’m about three seasons late though, and Shane is hot, so don’t mind me.

…& cool, in that big-sister-I-wish-I’d-had kind of way.

By: pennylane

pennylane — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:53:37 +0000

THANK YOU Victoria. I completely agree. McCain is getting the easy ride here and the press fawn over him in the exact same way as Bush–though he’s the guy you’d like to have a barbeque with rather than a (nonalcoholic) beer with.

By: talknormal

talknormal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:57:35 +0000

What I don’t understand is how Dowd, who clearly knows WAY more about the election (and its coverage) than some layperson like me and presumably doesn’t WANT to come off looking like an oblivious jerk will still use the word “magic” in reference to Obama.

By: ellid

ellid — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:04:33 +0000

I’m with Felicia – since when has Obama been treated like a god? I’d really like to know, since I’ve seen a lot of veiled (and not so veiled) racism directed at him, beginning with Joe Biden’s comment about him being clean and articulate. And hasn’t he had to have far more Secret Service protection than the other candidates, and didn’t he receive it far earlier than the others because a few Klansmen swore to take him out?

And when oh when is the mainstream media going to play hardball with Clinton on her connections to a right-wing religious cult? Or ask why her husband has been her attack dog? Or why she gave an interview to a newspaper owned by the billionaire who financed the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that forced the impeachment of her husband and nearly destroyed her family? Or flat-out *lied* about being under sniper fire in Bosnia?

More important, when are feminists going to call her out for her support of “conscience clauses” for pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control and Plan B? And when is someone, anyone, going to ask her just what she plans to do for women in this country? I haven’t seen anything particularly supportive of women or women’s issues come out of her tenure in the Senate or her current campaign…and at this point I frankly don’t expect to.

By: PhysioProf

PhysioProf — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:39:40 +0000

Oh, just to be clear: The incident wasn’t “satisfying” because a smart female journalist was threatened with a “backhanding” on the air. It was satisfying because the horrible shit that goes on behind the scenes was made obvious in public, letting people know that, unfortunately, misogyny is alive and well in the newsrooms of the mainstream media.

By: PhysioProf

PhysioProf — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:37:04 +0000

Danakitty, you are so right about what women face in the mainstream media. I am loath to post yet another link to my own blog in this thread, but I have written about a particular satisfying incident in which Mika Brzezhinski called out Joe Scarborough for being the obnoxious asshole that he is, and goaded him into laying bare his raw vicious misogyny right on the air on “Morning Joe”, his show on MS-NBC. He basically threatened to “backhand” her right on the fucking air.

If anyone is interested, the post can be found by Googling physioprof and “lame wingnut ass”.

By: Victoria Marinelli

Victoria Marinelli — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:46:25 +0000

I'd have to insist that Kristol get the boot first and foremost - but, yeah. I totally hear ya. But to Tina Sokol's comment, that "the media is supporting Obama in a fashion very similar to the way they supported G.W. Bush in 2000..." and "telling us how Obama is just so wonderful, and Hillary is crap" - Actually, there's been an assload of bias being directed at both Clinton and Obama; McCain is the one getting the hero treatment and the perpetual free ride. That shit has got to stop.