tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post3143270707623382050..comments2024-03-19T09:48:30.107-04:00Comments on the daily howler: The absence of the intelligentsia!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30989139257090527552013-04-25T14:44:42.649-04:002013-04-25T14:44:42.649-04:00What exactly is the job of a "Public Intellec...What exactly is the job of a "Public Intellectual"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56181254844256762362013-04-24T17:29:38.410-04:002013-04-24T17:29:38.410-04:00http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/04...http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/04/21/gentry-liberals-and-brass-knuckles-the-case-of-maureen-dowd/<br /><br />This was a little alarming and almost got my back up a little for a fellow sistah.CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51581378796489573862013-04-24T14:11:09.792-04:002013-04-24T14:11:09.792-04:00Actually, Bob, Dowd does get a lot of guffaws, but...Actually, Bob, Dowd does get a lot of guffaws, but it's by people you might not read.<br /><br />R. Emmet Tyrell:<br /><br />Or how about the inimitable Maureen Dowd publishing a playful and girlish column at her venerated site on the op-ed page of The New York Times? Surely she could tap out a clever column about the Enron executives' neat haircuts, or their membership at posh golf clubs, or something about Rodeo Drive. Typical of her, it would have the Light Touch. It would bring in all manner of knowing detail about the typical Enron executive's lifestyle, his wife's lifestyle, his pedicurist's lifestyle or that of his highly pedigreed dog. It would be another of Dowd's "Makes-you-think" pieces. Surely I am not the first to observe that she is more than a writer of occasional columns, she is a sociologist -- like Flaubert!"<br /><br />William F. Buckley<br /><br />"Consider Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Her recent assault on Gingrich was ostensibly triggered by his confession that he was not schooled in foreign policy (he had blurted out that Taiwan should be recognized diplomatically). But Miss Dowd doesn't conceal the totality of her concern over the Speaker. She entitled her piece ``The Loss of the Dodo''; led off by remarking that Newt was ``sickeningly'' cute; and ended by confessing her ``distress'' at the prospect of ``the Speaker frolicking in the woods with a bunch of guys in sheets and dresses.''<br /><br />The ``cute'' business was a reaction to Mr. Gingrich's having told a visiting witness that she was welcome to ``come see my dinosaur.'' The reference is to a facsimile skull kept in Mr. Gingrich's office, which wouldn't strike most people as ``cute,'' so long as the addict stops short of dinosaur figures on his stationery or calls for a National Dinosaur Day."<br /><br /><br /><br />Mark Steyn<br /><br />"I get many e-mails from soldiers in Iraq, and they sound a lot more grown-up than most Ivy League professors and certainly than Maureen Dowd, who writes like she's auditioning for a minor supporting role in ''Sex And The City."CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9275689244573204112013-04-24T12:51:09.978-04:002013-04-24T12:51:09.978-04:00Worth noting where Gleick praises the Boston Globe...Worth noting where Gleick praises the Boston Globe and the New York Times: the NYT owns the Boston Globe.Larry Headlundnoreply@blogger.com