Maureen Dowd's new Obama-bashing piece:

[impik]

It's not the media that is bad, it's Obama who can't play the game, or something like that. This woman is in a serious crusade against him.

[Joe Bacon]

1. What do you expect from Whoreen Dowd?

She's really the penultimate presstitute.

[depakid]

2. Meh, she smears 'em all with equal vacuousness

[havocmom]

3. Yep. It's just her job

Now that the ox getting gored (pardon the unintended pun) has a D after the name, too many people get their knickers in a twist. Too many forget IT'S HER JOB.

Really confident people don't need to get so defensive all the time. Methinks there is a lot of overcompensating going on with the chorus ;)

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Eff her. She's yesterday's news.

[rasputin1952]

4. Link?

:ahrug:

[NYC_SKP]

6. I'm guessing it's this one...

:shrug:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13dowd.html

:patriot:

[demtenjeep]

7. much like many here

sadly

[blogslut]

8. Silly Maureen

The relationship between the press and our elected officials is supposed to be adversarial. Like so many of her ilk, she's forgotten the basic tenets of her profession. She would rather be the news than report it.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Most of them are that way, for sure.

I'm so sick of them.

I wish they would report the news, not keep trying to manipulate it.

Asshats!

:grr:

[jonnyblitz]

11. umm, Dowd is paid for her opinion, she is NOT a news reporter.

you might want to learn the difference, it's not exactly rocket science. :eyes:

and i bet you didn't even read what she wrote. all she implied was that Obama sends Biden out to deal and shcmooze with the press because HE doesn't like them. :shrug:

yeah, real "SCATHING".

[Dr.Phool]

12. Which is a smart move.

Biden in person is a very warm, charming guy. And he's a bullshit artist of the first magnitude.

He's the kind of guy that you want to grab by the arm and say, "C'mon, we're going to the bar"!

[Kahuna]

14. The opinion addresses the administration's relationship with the media.

Ergo, poster's comments were completely in line with the content of her opinion piece. There was no need for you to take such a condescending tone. Did it make you feel better? :shrug:

[blogslut]

25. I read it

And I am fully aware Ms. Dowd makes her living as an OP-ED writer. I am also aware that there's no requirement that an opinion journalist be objective. However, when you compare the work of Ms. Dowd to her boss, Frank Rich, you find that Mr. Rich is able to express opinion without egoism. Ms. Dowd has always struck me as an insecure person, compensating through viciousness.

Regardless of all of that, in this particular piece, she comes to the defense of the Washington DC press. In doing so, she fails to realize the incredible irony of her action. The DC press have all become a bunch of Maureen Dowds, convinced that they are far more relevant and clever than the people and issues they cover. They run around scrounging up sensationalist drama because that gets them on the teevee. Instead of challenging Dubya and his minions, they took the lazy way out and fell for the myth of "access". They were cowed by that administration's threats and smiled gleefully during every dog and pony show. The ones who reported on BushCo favorably were featured on the air. The ones who didn't fell off the planet. The result is that we are now flooded with celebrity journalists who have forgotten how to report actual news. They think that being chummy with politicians is an adequate replacement for investigation.

President Obama is not playing that silly game. If the DC press wants a story, they're going to have to work for it. I've read a number of press pool reports where these "journalists" get butthurt because Obama sneaks off without telling them. They should be ashamed for allowing themselves to become so complacent that they aren't on top of his every move. He isn't going to schmooze with them or serve them canapés. If they want the story, they're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way - leg work.

RIP - Jack Anderson

[mitchum]

10. Dorothy Pucker

[Kahuna]

13. The comments are very good reading. Of the comments shown

so far (that have made it past the censors), most are sympathetic to the president and are taking Maureen and the M$M to task for their lack of serious attention to the nation's problems. If modo was expecting any sympathy she's not getting it. :applause:

[rasputin1952]

15. There is a general knowledge that this is not the Press of the JFK

years either, something she avoids. There are far more pundits than Journalists out there, and the whole thing has come back to Yellow Journalism as it's worst.

There is very little actual reporting anymore, it is mostly about people w/access to a camera and filling in time w/anything that comes along...except honest reporting. The days of Huntley/Brinkley and Cronkite are long gone, we don't get news anymore, we get editorials and spitball fights.

When we have a media and "news" organizations that find the death of a celebrity more important than the death of the Northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico, we can see just how bad off we truly are.

[Jennicut]

16. You are completely correct. The 24 hour news has a lot to do with that too.

Gotta fill up that time somehow.
I will say that watching CNN during the oil spill, there is some good reporting on the effects on the environment. But their pundits are terrible.

[BeyondGeography]

21. Agreed; but this is the same type of response she gets every week

and all she does is double down on superficial bullshit.

This is the Times at its worst. She's basically tenured; palsy-walsy with Boy Publisher, a columnist for life. And an utter waste of space.

[philly_bob]

17. 1999 Pulitzer Prize for mean-girl cattiness about Clinton/Lewinsky. (nt)

[Phx_Dem]

18. Yeah, cuz that's what he should spend his time doing -- playing games with the media.

Someone needs to tell the media to fuck off since it's obvious they either can't do their jobs, or they don't understand what their job is.

[JamesA1102]

19. She was on a crusade against Al Gore in 2000

And she lied about him repeatedly along with Frank Rich. They have no credibility at all.

[dsc]

20. back when she was trashing Clinton and praising Obama some of us tried to tell you

she was a crackpot who couldn't be trusted. We were called racist crackpots for our trouble. All I can say now is I told you so.

[PopSixSquish]

23. Maureen Dowd and Sally Quinn Have Long Thought Themselves the Arbiter of Who is In and Who is Out

when in reality both are nasty pieces of work who will turn on their column subjects at the slightest change in the breeze. Both trashed the Clintons and the Gores with gleeful abandon.

Neither went after the Obamas at first but certainly took the opportunity to sideswipe Desiree Rogers as the eviliest evil that ever eviled when the state dinner crasher fandango happened. Ms. Quinn actually stated that since Ms. Rogers was "not of Washington", then of course something like this was going to happen.

Fuck both of them...

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. Exactly. She's the prototypical Mean Girl who guards the clique

No one I know has read or taken her seriously since her Al Gore trashing days that gave us W.

No there there and never has been. Many posters on DU can turn a phrase better than she can with a lot more insight.

[Wandawilkerson]

24. +1 n/t

[Beacool]

29. Hear, hear!!!

Isn't it ironic? Now that the media's legs have mostly stopped tingling they get thrown under the bus. When they were endlessly trashing his opponent the same people thought that these members of the media were as insightful as the Oracle of Delphi.

:eyes:

[hatrack]

22. It's Ho-Do: What did you expect?

Maureen Dowd - the thinking man's Anne Coulter.

:puke:

[otohara]

26. Too Snarky for Me

and I like snark, but she does overkill

[Bucky]

28. Well, no right wing smear machine attack on a Democratic leader is complete without her twaddlings.

Seriously, can you tell me a Democratic leader with whom she has not found some "profound, yet heretofore unrevealed" moral flaw? It's like a game to her. What an utterly useless woman.

[jillan]

30. Here's to hoping that Maureen says something really stupid and is forced to retire.