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To: bentway who wrote (249967)	11/28/2007 8:46:51 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 281500

<MAUREEN DOWD> Just that line alone is 2 funny..............

To: bentway who wrote (249967)	11/28/2007 8:48:05 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 281500

Criticism Dowd's harsh appraisal of President Clinton and his feminist supporters during the Lewinsky scandal led to her being criticized by some liberals, and more recently her strong criticism of President Bush and the war in Iraq have made her enemies on the right. Her detractors have nicknamed her "MoDo". Shortly after she won her Pulitzer, a New York Press article analyzed Dowd's columns and concluded that Dowd appears to do little reporting and tends to dumb her subject matter down by viewing it through the lens of pop culture.[12] A 2002 Weekly Standard article explored Dowd's alleged narcissism and tendency to reduce "political phenomena ... to caricatures of the personalities involved." In 2003, Dowd was accused by Spinsanity.com and James Taranto of inserting ellipses to change a quote's intended meaning. This has resulted in the invention of a number of faux words ("dowdify," "dowdification," "dowdified") sometimes used by conservative bloggers and editorialists as derogatory terms to describe willful misinterpretation of a quote.[13] She has repeatedly been criticized by Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler for trivializing and making baseless accusations about Democratic politicians. For example, on January 31, 2007, the Howler criticized her for trivializing the campaigns of women politicians, and in particular that of Hillary Clinton.[14] In 2007, Dowd was accused by National Journal writer Jonathan Rauch as being a villain of journalism in an interview with Reason Magazine.[15] [edit] Bibliography

To: bentway who wrote (249967)	11/28/2007 11:54:04 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I love Maureen Dowd. It's like a little kid with toys isn't it. .........Waaaa, my toy broke, let's go play somewhere else. Except you shouldn't do that with a country. steve

To: bentway who wrote (249967)	11/29/2007 5:26:49 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In the final analysis Israeli-Palestinian peace will be achieved only when the Israelis are ready. The time may be approaching not because Bush or Condi want a legacy, but because Israel is starting to see very clearly the writing on the wall: rapidly decreasing US influence and power in the world, rapidly rising Arab wealth and influence via oil, and an inevitable isolation of Israel like the white ruled South Africa, if it insists on maintaining the status quo. I think the Israeli leadership is starting to see this, the Israeli public is still lagging.