Maureen Dowd: The New Face of Bigotry and Anti-Feminism in America

Maureen Dowd sees racists behind every door.  Initially I thought it was just partisan politics. Now it appears to have grown into a full blown paranoia.  She's even "hearing" words that aren't actually spoken, like "boy".  Most people take medication for this condition. 

Her constant and stunningly vicious harping on Sarah Palin is enough to make most normal women queasy - normal meaning outside the Beltway and between the two coasts. 

Normal women whose old fashioned idea of feminism used to be that we could do it all. 

But while Ms. Dowd may be getting pats on the back from Soros-paid bloggers and the likes of Sally Quinn, doyenne of DC society (though many of us remember the very ugly way she got there and the bodies she left behind in her quest for power), we in middle America find Ms. Dowd an increasingly pathetic figure; a serial killer of truth, pathologically lacking in self awareness and delusional about her own importance. 

Maureen Dowd is quick to point out racism where none exists.  So who's the real racist?  It's getting to be such an old liberal refrain - or should I say auld liberal refrain - that most people don't  hear it any more without rolling their eyes.  If Ms. Dowd and her crowd can't win on facts, you don't need to read the rest of the article.  Yes, indeed, you're the R word.  End of argument.  She, and they, stick out their collective tongues and it's all over as far as they're concerned. 

But those days are over, Babycakes.  It took us decades, but we've finally caught on. As soon as someone resorts to that, we now know that not only have you no ammunition, we recognize who the real racists are, and it isn't us.  Do a fact check, unusual for you, I know, and find out if liberals or conservatives have been in charge of every political aspect of the ten most poverty stricken cities in America for the past one hundred years.  Bet the answer to that won’t get printed in one of your columns.

Sarah Palin has been a favorite target.  She is an ordinary woman who went to an ordinary university, married an ordinary man and is raising an ordinary family.    When she saw corruption at the local level in her government, she rolled up her sleeves and did something about it instead of whining; then she took on both Republicans and Democrats to clean up corruption at the state level and ran Alaska efficiently as its governor using good, old fashioned common sense.  Let's compare how things are in Alaska to say, oh, New York or California.  Add to that, she's in her mid-forties, has had five children and is lovely to look at.  That would seem to be right out of the feminist manifesto. 

But in Dowd World, that only applies to Liberal women, so she takes aim with what she apparently considers her acerbic wit and does what she can to destroy a perfectly nice woman. (Not that Ms. Dowd would recognize a nice woman.  I suspect most of them give her a wide berth.) Her post menopausal feminist friends line up behind her in lockstep and make fun of everything from the Governor's children, to her hair, makeup and clothes.  They quote bloggers who make up outrageous lies and don’t bother fact-checking.  She and the rest of the media go to bloggers like me and repeat what they read.as though it were truth.  For instance, I could make something up like, Maureen Dowd is bulimic, is dating a married senator, and secretly had his baby whom she put up for adoption.  She also said, through an unnamed source, that she thinks President Obama should dump that tasteless cow of a wife of his and find someone with more class and grace.  ‘Journalists’ and columnists being what they are these days, would take that and run with it – if she were a conservative.  They wouldn’t bother to check the source, or to say they’d gotten it from some nutty blogger.  

If Ms. Dowd and Ms. Quinn had taken a step back and examined their words through the eyes of the ‘normal’ people reading them, they would have seen what we did.  Unhappy, old, bitter women leading shallow lives with shallow "friends" who have lost all touch with kindness and civility. 

And then we saw the pack mentality of the media who has its own liberal agenda that Sarah doesn’t fit into. And how did they attempt to destroy her?  This woman who gave one of the best untelepromptered speeches at any convention in memory after two hours of preparation?  You say she’s stupid over and over and over again, regardless of how well she governed Alaska, until people who don’t pay attention to the media’s agenda, or don’t bother to do their own research, begin to believe it. 

And as for their making fun of Sarah’s looks, you’d think they’d never walked past their own mirrors. 

As angry as I got at how a fellow human being was treated by these women - at how these women in essence verbally gang raped another woman because of nothing more or less than a difference in political philosophy - I felt sorry for them.  When all was said and done, Sarah Palin still had her dignity, at least to those of us who recognized what was going on.  These women with Maureen Dowd leading the charge, had nothing more than a few good snickers behind their hands and their journalistic credibility in tatters.  And worse, they were too stupid to realize it and kept the personal and snarky attacks coming.  I felt like I needed a shower if someone even described a Dowd column to me.

Ms. Dowd's apparent crush on President Obama's lanky frame and Mrs. Obama's sculpted bare arms notwithstanding, Ms. Dowd appears incapable of even a semblance of intellectual honesty.  She hammers her points home in column after column, and if she can't make them legitimately she, devoid of imagination or intellect, pulls out the race card or the dumb broad card.  It must really gall her that Sarah was such a successful governor without an Ivy League education.  And she must have cheered when she stepped down as governor to save Alaska from fighting the millions of dollars of frivolous lawsuits filed by liberal operatives who went after her for everything from wearing a jacket with a logo to one of her husband’s sporting events, to saying the name of a tea she drank and claiming she was promoting it illegally.  These same lawsuits cost her family personally nearly half a million dollars.  Money they didn’t have because they were just ordinary people put in a in an extraordinary situation..

The nation should probably thank Maureen.  I suspect I'm not the only one who feels as though they've been inoculated from this race charge permanently now.  And for having an understanding of how the media works to assassinate people’s character and reputations if they consider them a threat.

Bring it on, Maureen. 

Clearly you weren't aware of it, but you unmasked yourself on this one.  When you start hearing racist words that no one said, those are the words that are dancing in your own head.  When you hear someone say that a woman used the term ‘retarded’ in regard to a special needs child she knew would be special needs and chose to bring into the world anyway -  well, you figuratively threw a bucket of water on yourself. 

You're meeeeeeeeellllllllllllllting.

Ding dong, the witch is dead.