I could bounce a quarter off of Mo Dowds face into my daquiri.

[trumad]

Watching last nights Daily Show I thought that at any minute the pins holding back her face would break and thus spew her limited brain matter all over J. Stew.

[cmd]

1. Why spoil a perfectly good daquiri? n/t

[frank frankly]

2. LOL

gawd that is funny.

she is nasty business, isn't she?

[seventhson]

3. I thought she was hot

Wound tight

and in a strange way extremely sexy.

But what do I know?

Who is she?

[frank frankly]

5. here you go, seventhson.

i think she looks plastic as hell, but i disliked her well before i caught a glimpse of her on the television.

http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/index.html

[burythehatchet]

7. i think so too.

but I think we might be in the minority

[LuminousX]

26. I think she is a hottie as well

a bit too 'New York' for my tastes, but I'm a sucker for redheads.

[pookastew]

4. Boy, talk about unlikable...

Was the voice on purpose? And what's with the sultry hair toss?

It was like watching Gilligan's Island: she talks like Mr. Howell and tosses her hair like Ginger.

Why would anyone buy a book of columns in which she can't bring herself to criticize the worst president in history because it might cost her an invitation to a Kennebunkport cocktail party?

Does she think people will pay to read her blaming Cheney for everything so she can spare her buddy GHWB's idiot son?

And most of all: does the New York Times really NEED a gossip columnist?

[Ripley]

6. LOL! Funniest post of the day and it's only 8:13 am...

I never saw the woman before except for her tiny photo next to her column in the paper. I was aghast when I was flipping channels and caught that head with her name on the screen under it. Not the same person.

[Atman]

10. Gotta say, she freaked me out, too!

I always imagined her as more of a real person. She looked kinda pretty in her column picture. If you could get her to roll around with Ann Coulter you'd have the beginning of a very interesting game of Pick-Up Stix. But with all the teflon and plastic, they'd probably just slip off each other anyway. Though you'd likely be so busy tending to your bleeding ears that you wouldn't notice.

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. "talks like Howell and tosses her hair like Ginger"!!

Perfect! ROFLMAO!!!

Her voice is downright grating. That must be the reason she's not made the jump from print to camerabunny.

Seriously, I can't stand her voice now that I've heard it but I think she was very, very, very nervous. Stewart did an outstanding job as host with her. He could see how flat it was starting out and turned it around like a pro.

[bigtree]

9. quote of the day!

"she talks like Mr. Howell and tosses her hair like Ginger"

Thanks for that. I'm actually laughing. Amazing.

[dissention]

14. I actually like

Maureen. I don't always agree with her, but there's always at least one thing in her columns that make me laugh. I couldn't believe her shilling for GHWB on CSPAN on Sunday, though. But she still has talent and is the only columnist I know who had the audacity to use "oil" and "imperialism" in the same sentence.

[buycitgo]

22. you don't read much, do you?

[Deb]

13. Excellent!

Gilligan's Island.... LMAO

[Junkdrawer]

16. Here's a link to her column comparing the Kerry to Gilligan's Island...

So here's the race: the Skipper takes on the Sheriff.

(And, of course, the undercard in the fight: Bambi meets Godzilla.)

Talk about drowning in metaphor.

At least Teresa Heinz Kerry kept her subliminal message simple: She wore a ketchup-red suit to introduce the second senator in her life.

Her husband, as usual, went overboard. The Democratic convention, which was focus-group-dial-a- metered to death, needed a dose of dramamine. It was awash in allusions about Commander Kerry steering the ship of state - from the curved design of the metal and wood-paneled lectern, meant to evoke a ship's bridge; to the Massachusetts senator's arrival in Boston Harbor on the prow of a ferry, making like Washington crossing the Delaware; to the dramatic Vietnam Swift boat scenes in the biographical film; to Jim Rassman's iconic story of being saved when Lieutenant Kerry reached down and pulled him from the water over the bow, to the nominee's hokey salute and "reporting for duty."

.....

Given that the Kerry convention featured a skipper brave and sure, a first mate who makes others comfortable, a millionaire called "Lovey" by her spouse, two pretty young Kerry castaways and a movie star (the ubiquitously annoying Ben Affleck), I suppose we should be grateful that Camp Kerry didn't introduce the nominee with the "Gilligan's Island" theme song.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/opinion/01dowd.html?ex=1249099200&en=f4851fd934f36ff2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

[pookastew]

20. Yeah. Figured one good TVLand slam...

...deserves another.

She can turn a phrase (although she fell off the "glib bridge" a while ago).

But she just can't get past her personal friendship with GHWB, and that renders her columns on his son pointless.

On TDS she tried the "Cheney is Darth Vader and GHWB is Obi Wan" thing she's been floating in her column for ages. Doesn't wash. She may think it's a good way to split the baby, but the fact is it won't fool anyone--it's really just concocted for her own and GHWB's consumption. Which makes it POINTLESS.

If anything, GHWB is Dorian Gray. But if she writes that she won't get to ride on his cigarette boat.

Too bad Al Gore's dad didn't have a cigarette boat, huh?

[Stuckinthebush]

11. Gotta say...I thought she looked good

Not that it really matters, but I have never seen her before except the picture on her on-line articles.

That being said, I think MoDo can be a little confused at times in her writings. I'd be interested to read some of her book to see what she has to say.

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. Having an office next to Saffire

would confuse Jesus Christ himself! That has to be maddening.

Her line about Krugman coming in and saying "Let's go get a daquery" was funny. I know there are people here who don't like her, but I don't read her columns so :shrug:

[trumad]

18. It wasn't Krugman...It was Friedman.

[Norquist Nemesis]

24. Ooop! Should have gone with my first instinct

on that one. I first posted Friedman then <in>corrected it to Krugman. *need more coffee...*

Thanks for catching it! :) :) :)

[SoCalDem]

12. She looked like she belonged at Madame Toussauds

Way too much makeup...and very harsh dye job on her hair.. (meow)..

TV lights bring out the harshness.. a woman "of a certain age" should wear soft colors..

[kentuck]

15. I think she knows how to turn a phrase....

I enjoy reading her....sometimes. :)

By the way, she came across better on TDS than she has on some other shows.

[spanone]

19. She has the look of an embalmed cadaver.

[Jacobin]

21. She is so in awe of power than she has become a complete

and useless sycophant.

She was getting wet describing how "close" she was to the Bush Crime Family and their fishing trips. It was disgusting, and she should move to England and report on the royals for one of the scandal sheets. She would be much happier.

[Trajan]

23. Mmmmmm ...

Daiquiri ....

[goclark]

25. Is she on the same thing GW is on?

She is out to lunch in her speech, sounds like pills to me.