Gene Lyons on Dowd - Democratic Underground

mooseandsquirrel

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:00 AM
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Gene Lyons on Dowd

Dead on.

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What’s significant about Dowd’s confusion is how it illuminates the paradoxical rise of the celebrity pundit, journalists who achieve sublunary stardom by treating politics as “infotainment,” appearing on TV and copping an attitude. Her witty eviscerations of President Bush would be more persuasive, however, had she not also mocked Al Gore as “the teacher’s pet from hell,” Bill Clinton as “the Animal House president,” etc. Back then, Dowd treated Bush as a down-to-earth alternative to the humorless Gore.

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Captain Hilts

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:05 AM
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1. I remember her being pretty rough on Bush in 2000.

She took turns trashing Hillary and W. We used to flip a coin at the office to guess which one would get it.

Maureen Dowd has, for a long time, avoided going on television. Evidently, she bombed on Nightline years ago and that was it for about ten years or so.

I've never heard it rumored that Dowd was sacking in with politicians as Miller has on several occasions.

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Straight Shooter

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:07 AM
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2. I agree with Gene Lyons.

I remember all too well how she wrote about Kerry during election 2004. It seems to be all fun and games to her, even if sometimes her analyses are right on target.

After the election, I wrote her and asked her if she was satisfied with the outcome of the election, having contributed in no small part to the mockery of Kerry as a national sport. Naturally, I didn't hear back from her.

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zbdent

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Wed Nov-09-05 10:29 AM
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3. What's funny about the "celebrity factor" in politics is this:

We, on the left(ish) side, do often listen to celebrities . . . we don't take them at full face value. (We're the ones who advocate researching things).

Repukes/freeptards ELECT celebrities to office - which usually turns out to be a far worse fate for the country than hearing a side of a story that normally would have disappeared if it were not for the celebrity bringing it into the open . . .

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rolleitreks

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Wed Nov-09-05 12:08 PM
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4. She eviscerates both sides, as she should.n/t

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freesqueeze

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Wed Nov-09-05 03:32 PM
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5. I agree

Satirist should attack the pompous and powerfull, regardless of party affiliation.

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