She Fills Empty Space

by Molly Ivors

I dunno what happened while I was away, but Maureen Dowd must be on some new and very exciting medications. Though it is instructive, I guess, to hear the voices that echo in her head.

(Note the gratuitous slap at Jesse Jackson! Deft! That's why she's a pro, that cutting-edge humor from 1988!)

Everyone's being a grownup now, Mo. Just because you're still sucking on your rejection from Bill, don't assume everyone else is built on the same lines. Mkay?

Comments

[merl]

I've always thought that Bill Clinton must have turned her down.

[Pug]

I've often wondered about the Clinton's apparent affection for John McCain.

This is the guy who pub;icly told the joke, "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Her father is Janet Reno".

If someone made a joke like that in public about my daughter you certainly wouldn't see me knocking down shots with him and praising him as both Bill and Hillary have. I'd want to smash him.

So, you can wonder all you want about MoDo. I wonder about Bill and Hillary.

[steve simels]

Probably the craziest thing she's ever written, which is going some.

I can't believe her editors at the Times aren't profoundly embarassed by that shit.

[Trevor J]

What the hell was that? Is this like the New Yorker cover? Who else besides Dowd really thinks that? Sad, sad, sad.

[actor212]

I can't believe her editors at the Times aren't profoundly embarassed by that shit.

There's an old saying round these parts: Never insult the hooker with your cock in her mouth.

[Jemand von Niemand]

I read the column. And I enjoy the sensation of having my eyeballs stabbed repeatedly with knitting needles, okay?

Even after reading it a second time -- it still didn't make any sense. Not at all. It's puerile hackery; it's the nadir of Assclownery. It's filler.

Jesus Christ -- it's as bad as one of Kristol's things -- or Brooks', or Friedman's; and they use bigger words.

Pinch, Arthur: You can't spend yet another year dismissing each and every one of her columns by saying Well, it's not one of her best.

Why offer a soapbox to so many second-rate intellects on your Op-Ed page when you claim to have such high literary and journalistic standards? You may enjoy having an enema every few days -- but stop forcing the rest of us to have one, too. Hire better observers of the human condition.

[actor212]

Why offer a soapbox to so many second-rate intellects on your Op-Ed page when you claim to have such high literary and journalistic standards? You may enjoy having an enema every few days -- but stop forcing the rest of us to have one, too. Hire better observers of the human condition.

Hey, kids! I have an idea! Let's start an on-line petition for Thers and Molly Ivors to get their own day-o-the-week Times OpEd!

[Poopyman]

Gah! I wasn't going to read it, I swear, but the comments here made me too curious.

It reads like a particularly bad piece of fan fiction, although fan of what might be something I really don't want to know.

And it does bear a remarkable resemblance to something a sophomore would write about the girlfriend of a guy who had turned her down.

Blech!

[Steve M.]

I notice she's still saying that no one would be doing this to Obama if he weren't, er, asking for it.

[Auntie Claire's Hand]

I have to second what the Poopeyman says. It's so clunky, it's painful to read.

I am convinced that she and lots of her other media pals get all their information from right-wing sources. Because this so-called humor sounds exactly like what the right-wingers that I know think is amusing. It's an insulated point-of-view. So it's very strange to people who aren't immersed in their world-view.