Portait of a Harpy, as a Humorless Has-Been
Posted on July 6, 2009
Filed Under Alaska, Americans, Conservatism, International, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Political lies, Republican Party, US, political arrogance, politicians, politics | 8 Comments
When a politician drops a bombshell, it is natural that there be all sorts of puzzled queries as to the meaning of that surprise announcement. Sarah Palin, in her first gubernatorial term, announced her resignation as Alaska’s governor on Friday. Immediately the speculation started as to what could be behind such a sudden decision. All this is understandable and very much expected. What isn’t expected, what isn’t natural, what is downright despicable however, is how some liberals like The New Times’ Maureen Dowd reacted.
Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer Prize winner, elitist snob, graceless harpy
Understandably all sorts of ideas, however far fetched, were floated as to the possible motivation. I have no problem with such reactions even if some are prompted by sheer malice. But… when you take someone whom the liberal media attacked because she was a woman, because she courageously and lovingly chose not to abort a foetus that was known would be born with Down syndrome, one must wonder at Maureen Dowd’s op-ed this past Saturday, July 4th.
Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.
Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.
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On the shore of Lake Lucille, with wild fowl honking and the First Dude smiling, with Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in the background, the woman who took the Republican Party by storm only 10 months ago gave an incoherent, breathless and prickly stream of consciousness to a small group in her Wasilla yard. Gobsmacked Alaska politicians, Republican big shots, the national press, her brother, the D.C. lawyer who helped create her political action committee and yes, even Fox News, played catch-up.
What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she’s not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn’t feel like finishing her first term as governor.
As Andrew Breitbart put it in The Washington Times:
New York Times Barbie strikes again
What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska’s governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall.
The assassination of Sarah Palin – by media.
For those who didn’t pay attention, Mrs. Palin’s unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political figure threatened the media’s preordained presidency of Barack Obama.
In light of how the Obama machine took down Hillary Clinton, which unsettled many feminists who believed 2008 was their time, many who saw sexism at play – the destruction of an ascendant Republican female icon was an urgent imperative for the Democratic Party.
In conjunction with the laws of political correctness as perfected by the Democratic Media Complex, it would take prominent women to take down an unlikely and unexpected conservative feminist symbol that threatened to steal away Mrs. Clinton’s votes from the Chosen One.
While the vanquished then-senator from New York conspicuously removed herself from this task – going so far as praising Sen. John McCain’s running mate as “a very composed and effective debater” – a trio of media partisans, each with a unique skill set, rose to the task of tearing down Sarah Palin.
Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey – Obama’s Angels (featuring Joy Behar in the role of “Bosley”) – used a potent mix of mockery, snobbery and vitriol to undermine Mrs. Palin’s feminist bona fides.
They are what my wife calls “pad throwers,” an allusion to the shower room scene in the Stephen King film “Carrie,” in which the popular girls throw sanitary napkins and tampons at the film’s namesake.
Simply put, they are bullies. And female bullies – “Mean Girls” as Miss Fey’s film calls them – are the cruelest kind.
Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion “safe, legal and rare,” female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.
But since Mrs. Palin, a mother of five including a boy who was known to have Down syndrome before he was born, is a potent symbol of the pro-life movement, she is considered an enemy of the sisterhood.
Miss Dowd’s attempted takedown of Mrs. Palin is less skillful surgery than it is name calling using fun noun and adjective pairings. Think “Mad Libs.” And, that’s exactly what Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey are. Once the ladies did their job, liberal men like Jon Stewart and David Letterman had the cover to join the hate campaign.
While Mrs. Palin is at ease with her gender, as well as her place in the workplace and at home, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey convey a base insecurity in their feminine skin. Their rage is fueled by liberalism’s false feminist dogma and they take it out on a woman who chose not to join their angry sorority.
The governor of Alaska’s compelling narrative – athlete, beauty queen, wife, mother, hunter, successful politician – shows adherents of narrow leftist dogma that, perhaps, women really can have it all. Most importantly: freedom of thought.
In calling Alaska’s governor “Caribou Barbie,” Miss Dowd used beauty as a weapon to diminish Mrs. Palin’s achievements. A man would be reprimanded for this, but Miss Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning pad thrower and is licensed for such vindictive pettiness.
“Caribou,” of course, is a stab at Mrs. Palin’s backwater, Red State ways, attacks on which an Upper Westside liberal snob can never get enough. Miss Dowd goes on to ridicule “Sarah’s country-music melodramas.” This is her barely veiled attempt to call Mrs. Palin “white trash.” And this has been the loathsome subtext of all media criticism of the Palins. They even went after their children. Mercilessly.
And Mrs. Palin during the Letterman saga finally cried, “Enough!”
Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias, but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who in simpler times used to be considered valued customers.
While “empathy” and “tolerance” may be liberalism’s highest values, Miss Dowd offers her conservative victims none. They are caricatured, demeaned and dehumanized. They are to be mocked and ridiculed to the point where the other students point and laugh. The MoDo template is so simple and repetitive it could be written into a software program.
Perhaps resigning from her first term in office may hurt Mrs. Palin’s attempts to run for higher office. Even I, a Palin supporter, now have qualms about her seeking higher office. But politics is not the most important way to influence our country, and reinforce conservatism’s relevancy in the current global disorder. Media is.
Sarah Palin may best serve her country by entering the media fray. In the pursuit of taking her down, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey have created the person who burns the liberal media prom down.
Hopefully, when she leaves office Mrs. Palin starts to work on her telekinetic powers.
I fully share Mr. Breitbart’s every sentiment!
It takes no literary brilliance to turn acerbic in one’s criticism, it takes no talent to disparage without bothering to back up one’s words with facts. In spite of her 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary Ms. Dowd has long since become too lazy to offer us the benefit of her classical education and B.A. in English Literature from Washington DC’s prestigious Catholic University. All too often, as if to remind herself she once actually possessed a fine working brain, she does include ill fitting classical and literary allusions in her writing… forgive her, gentle reader, she truly knows not what she does!
Like The New York Times, Maureen’s days of glory are long past. Her disconnect with middle America becomes more obvious with every word she writes. One must wonder what deep attachment she must share with “Pinch” Sulzberger if he allowed this poisonous, unfunny drivel, to pass as witty commentary… I’ll leave all speculation of whatever sharing may exist to better informed minds than mine, meanwhile it pleases me that the traditional print media is loosing ground, loosing talent and are being left with the likes of… Maureen Dowd. A marriage made in heaven, no doubt!
Chaim
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Dowd, Fey and Kouric are three grownup college kids who are all puffed up and out of shape due to a sickness called, “haughtiness,” prancing, strutting, gossip mongers who pride themselves in kicking someone when they are down.
However, being “down” because of a Saturday Night TV program does not quite qualify for a sophisticated, intellectual, righteous attack. It was at best a chance to wow the high school kids who love to watch that program to feel like they’re in college.
Ms. Dowd, is it right to be a bully? We have all seen what bullies do and the results of those forays into the world of underhanded and sordid snipers.
Just who are you attempting to impress?
You are a sniper, watching from a safe position, until the time comes to hurt someone. Then, after the sneaky shot, you run back to your sergeant to report what a great soldier you are.
When Sarah Palin was in, you sniped at her. Yet, when Sarah Palin is out, you still snipe. Snipers whose sole aim is to hurt and sting and destroy, are anti heroes. In your case Ms. Dowd, you act like a typical inner city mugger. They never start up with the strong. Never.
Relying on a Pulitzer prize as an automatic seal of approval on anything you write, is not righteous. Sensitivity and the human heart are the wrong targets Ms. Dowd. The angry Chinese government will continue to use the same merciless and intrue methods to quell the sounds of freedom. I am a proud member of “Students fora Free Tibet” exactly for that reason. I 8understand what freedom is. It is the right to have a Down Syndrome child, not just to have an abortion. It is the right to have a teenager in trouble without insisting on going for the usual, typical, expected, endorsed abortion. Yet, the N.Y. Times was calling. It’s too bad Ms. Palin that you are not “in ” enough to realize that N.Y. Times gave you a chance to degrade yourself by writing for their “newspaper.” You are fifty years too late. Back then is when they were a respected, world class publication.
Follow your heart Ms. Dowd, not your ego.
They look for the hurt, the downtrodden and the victims. Yes, they search and find victims and then make sure those victims are preoccupied and are weak. Only after believing they are weak and swamped with personal problems, only then do they mug. “They,” is you Ms. Dowd.
What a shame that you weren’t able to buck the New York Slimes and tell them, “No thanks, I’llwrite about health care or, the politically wrong Muslims.” You were too busy following The European Times (oh, I mean The New York Times), to fight for the real victims, not against the victims.
MoDo the Dodo is striving for relevance as her ’star’ continues to tarnish. To call her a harpy does a huge disservice to genuine harpies. Ms Dowd would have to get up early, pack a lunch and invite her entire inventory of friends to make a pimple on Sarah Palin’s lovely posterior.
Bitter, has-been, elitist twits with empty, unfulfilled lives are scared to death of happy, smart, beautiful, successful and honorable women like Governor Palin. Envy combined with ignorance and arrogance make for a pathetic personality. Dowd and Company will fade into obscurity while Governor Palin will make a mark on history. She scares these twits to their empty core.
Washups like MoDo the DoDo (nice one, RVS) simply have to find a new target for their Derangement Syndrome, now that the Evil Bush/Hitler is out of range. Palin was obviously fed up with the attacks in her response to Late Night Dave, which the Dem attack dogs sniffed as weakness on her part. They have no shame.
Sarah Palin is everything those women aren’t. She refused to sacrifice her family for her own ego and desire for power. After bringing to life a dead John McCain candidacy, she suffered the slings and arrows of self-absorbed modern feminists who have failed at life and can’t accept the fact that this woman, Mrs. Palin had a husband who didn’t cheat on her, and children who were like everyone else’s children. She also refuse to violate her principles in the name of expediency. Maureen Dowd has serious issues and none of them are Sarah Palin.
WTH has happened to Maureen Dowd? I used to enjoy her work (even when I didn’t agree with her).
Palin probably got sick of the pot shots and smear the media was throwing at her family every chance they got.
I agree with Mr. Biga – Dowd has ISSUES.
LOL Perhaps these three fembot libs should read Andrew Breitbart’s article and think about what happened to the pad throwers in the movie. It might be educational for them.
I wouldn’t be outraged or saddened if someone gave Dowd, Couric and Fey Taliban a taste of their own medicine, it would in fact enliven all our days.
If mirrors could somehow reflect the inner persona these three used up toilet tissues could see how ugly and deformed their true selves really are.
When Maureen Dowd sold out to the very people she once hated, she not only gave sold her soul, she also gave us all a chance to see who she really is, underneath all the vocabulary throwing and syntax flinging. She loves to attack those who are down; she’s a true opportunist.
Maureen Dowd has attacked Sarah Palin only because Palin is in a weakened state, having resigned, having been slandered, having been wrongly portrayed on television kid shows. having been dealt rough blows in life.
Maureen Dowd attacked Barack Obama also, but ONLY back then, when he was a weak candidate. She only attacks the ones who have been hurt, because then she knows she will be agreed with. For example, here follows Maureen Dowd’s handling of Barack Obama’s campaign way back before he was to become the official nominee (since then, she has been quite the respectful, typical Liberal she used to be).
The following quote is directly from Maureen Dowd’s writing…
“Where Did Barack Obama’s Money Come From?
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their state as IR, often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as UK, the United Kingdom.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.”
The above Dowd quote shows how she hit the hurting Obama(from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s connection), only when he was down. Again, she goes after the weak. Now that Barack has made it big time, we cannot even hear a bad word from Dowd about him.
Wait for someone else to be down, and the next day, open the Times and you’ll find an article there from Dowd the Opportunist, showing why that person should be put down even more.
Sarah Palin is a good honess Christian. She has a problem and she tell the truth. She open it right in front of you. She don’t care to much if they know her inside problems. Ecept, there is a problem that this fancy writer Dowd trys to attack Sarah Palin when she is hurt from her kids and she has politics problems
How come Dowd doesnt attack the Moslem who kills holy Christian people who are inocent and didnt even start up? Why don’t she say something then? Why don’t we hear Mrs. Dowd when there is murders ?
I tell you why because she don’t want to look like she against all the moslems. I bet you Dowd is also a Christian but she don’t act like it.