Dowd?

Ewwwww.

Put that down, you don't KNOW where it's BEEN.

Guess I need me some Old Glory insurance. For when the robots come for me.

SrahW -

That is the funniest SNL sketch that's ever been aired. I almost had a stroke laughing when I first saw it.

okay. so MD's mom tells her (with a straight face? maybe she's just yankin' Mo's chain...) that Martha went down because all men hate women and find them useless, except as baby machines? I guess Martha wasn't cutting it as a baby machine - plus she was trying to play the market and make the big bucks like the boys - so they put her away? I'm thinking that either Mo's mom is related to WC Fields or she's bitter because Mo's dad is gay. well, good to see that the old saw about the apple falling near the tree is dead.

maybe I should skip askin' what this has to do with her point about anchors... but since I've veered back toward Mo's topic, what is this supposed to mean: "The attitude still seems to be, 'We want a daddy in that chair.' " was there another vote, and I missed it? was my November ballot truncated for some reason, and I didn't get to vote on Brokaw or Rather's replacement? 'cause I'd've voted for Gwen Ifill. I have no idea why, but it would be the right thing to do, apparantly. though Dowd would probably still loathe my backward, neanderthal, hatriot-style conservatism.

Shades of the Stepford Wives (original film) Bill?

criminy, Bill. I am going to have to avoid MoDo links from now on. to wit:

"Even if I felt like raising a ruckus about Boys Nation, who would care? Feminism lasted for a nanosecond, but the backlash has lasted 30 years."

if the past three decades are backlash, what, pray tell, constituted that shining nanosecond of feminism? and:

"Another friend said she devotes the "one little ounce of feminist annoyance" she has left for the excess of "young fluffs" on cable news - as opposed to substantial newswomen, like CNN's bespectacled Pentagon reporter, Barbara Starr, 'who looks like she could hit those generals with a handbag if they didn't give her answers.'"

does one have to buy feminist annoyance by the ounce? sounds expensive, and probably contributes to the nanosecond thingy I also don't understand. and:

"...The only way this is going to change is if women refuse to watch men. And the problem is, women like watching men."

liking to watch men is what drives choice of news shows among viewers? does dad know that's why mom wants to watch ABC instead of CBS? and what should mom watch if she takes Mo's advice and stops watching men? would that be the whole retro barefoot & pregnant thing Mo is alluding to by mentioning her mom's comment?

what planet is she from? all this because they [heh - cabal of white male network owners] are replacing successful media figures with similar media figures rather than following Dowd's ideal of equality, in which all white men disappear after apologizing for everything and offering to commit hari kiri.

tee bee -

You are making a classic mistake. It's pointless to analyze a MoDo column. Pointless.

She's a nannering idiot. I usually don't even bother to read her to get annoyed (and I read everything), because she's so incomprehensible.

I just happened to skim that line and find it revealing. Don't get sucked in - you'll go insane trying to make sense of it!

Perhaps she just forgot we just spent untold billions of dollars, not to mention the 1,200 lost service men and WOMEN, to liberate, what, something like 20 to 30 million Iraqi and Afgani women.

Gives one an idea about why MoDo's brother has conservative thoughts too. Apparently, Maureen is in the minority in her family. Hmmm.

She's a bitter lonely frustrated woman - all alone, naturally and understandably (except to her) given the choices she has made with her life - putting herself and her poison pen first instead of being willing (able?) to share a life with someone else.

Once you understand that she is projecting her unhappiness onto society as a whole (and Republicans in particular) her columns are explainable, if not understandable.

One final point - she probably thinks Republicans/Christians etc take pleasure in her personal loneliness when we don't - we'd be glad for to be happy in her personal life, if only because all the unhappiness which results in her columns would disappear.

Hitman -

You think that the thoughts of Dowd's mother are conservative?

No Bill, but her brother is. Maybe because he and the rest of the family grew up listening to such pap from their mother. MoDo drank the kool-aid and is bacically alone in her leftist leanings in that family. Probably makes for some strained if not strange Thanksgiving dinners.

Bill, as a follow-up to my post I give you this
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/opinion/28dowd.html?oref=login&oref=login

but Bill - I usually don't even bother to read her to get annoyed (and I read everything) - that's just it. could not take my eyes off the train wreck. however, the update link you excerpted is awesome. sensiblemom indeed. do you think MoDo reads her? hahahahaha! we could email excerpts and links to her, couldn't we?

Hey MoDo -
Me have a baby my a$$. As soon as I can train one of these here sheep to run the vacuum cleaner, yer outa here.

Muahahahahaha! And click the link to see how close the Robots are to completion!

(NSFW!!!)

Does anyone live in a tighter coccoon than MD? She really thinks Red-Staters are foisting a Brokaw look-a-like who picks fights with the blogosphere and toes the MSM line? Of all the hosts on MSNBC, Brian Boy is the most wooden and boring; Lester Holt has much more personality. And does she really think Katie Couric is anchor material? If Couric and Sawyer want to be taken seriously, they need to spend less time interviewing authors of pulp fiction and ask politicians of all ilk tough questions. The evening news isn't supposed to look like an episode of "Oprah" or "The View." Why didn't Dowd mention Cokie Roberts, who was forced to co-host with Sam the Vulcan? Or what about the job Rather did on Connie Chung? The men who are doing in the liberal women are liberal Blue-Staters, not the heartlanders.

Apparently, Dowd doesn't remember the announcement that our new Secretary of State will be a woman. Somehow, Prof. Rice doesn't strike me as the "stay in the background", "self doubting" or "weak" female that Dowd claims will clutter up her brave new world.

Re: this Dowd quote:
"We are in the era of vamping, self-doubting "Desperate Housewives," not strong, cutting "Murphy Brown." It's the season of prim "stay in the background" Laura Bush, not assertive "two for the price of one" Hillary. Where would you even lodge a feminist protest these days?"