tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2875962466074228620..comments2024-03-28T15:22:06.016-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Supplemental: Maureen Dowd (publicly) speaks!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86487843145716117052014-07-17T23:05:10.932-04:002014-07-17T23:05:10.932-04:00Oh, I'm sorry. Were my comments not worth mor...Oh, I'm sorry. Were my comments not worth more than you paid for them? Then I promise to stop making you read them. Fair's fair.<br />deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89897566545766922742014-07-17T18:30:40.556-04:002014-07-17T18:30:40.556-04:00"Readers who enjoy deadrat's comments als..."Readers who enjoy deadrat's comments also may like: ...."<br /><br />That would be deadrat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87859100014524037922014-07-17T17:24:45.289-04:002014-07-17T17:24:45.289-04:00I read the Elon article and watched the video clip...I read the Elon article and watched the video clips. Dowd really is a delusional embarrassment. Her pinched, pedantic and nasal delivery makes her extremely hard on the ears. For an average of $30,000.00 a pop you'd think she would at least memorize her speech instead of reading it from a piece of paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30389312914957193382014-07-17T15:48:41.155-04:002014-07-17T15:48:41.155-04:00Not according to the one who knew him best.Not according to the one who knew him best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8393043834039392542014-07-17T15:06:49.427-04:002014-07-17T15:06:49.427-04:00The DSM5 is out. Why don't you check under &q...The DSM5 is out. Why don't you check under "trolls" to see if they have your picture?deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-85297765557775943462014-07-17T15:01:39.080-04:002014-07-17T15:01:39.080-04:00Yep. Bob's been carrying water by the bucketlo...Yep. Bob's been carrying water by the bucketloads for Hillary. About time somebody from that camp returns the favor.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42211337888777981692014-07-17T12:24:11.661-04:002014-07-17T12:24:11.661-04:00A set of superficial similarities that overlook Ni...A set of superficial similarities that overlook Nixon's defining characteristic, he was a crook.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87689432554961896782014-07-17T12:17:36.950-04:002014-07-17T12:17:36.950-04:00Hillary Clinton will triumph.
They made fun of ...Hillary Clinton will triumph. <br /><br />They made fun of her scant qualifications. They made fun of her clothes, her comments, her mannerisms, her money. They made fun of her family.<br /><br />She lost a tough, close race to a charismatic younger Senator with lesser qualifications than she.<br /><br />No, Maureen Dowd. Hillary will not just go away. No, Krystal Ball, she is not "our Romney."<br /><br />Hillary is our Nixon! Now, more than ever!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68296432241548328332014-07-17T12:07:08.751-04:002014-07-17T12:07:08.751-04:00I believe Bob's post could do some good if som...I believe Bob's post could do some good if someone important, like Chelsea's spokesperson Kamyl Bazbaz, would send it around to the regular working press covering the Clinton family activities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31650106151500471402014-07-17T12:01:47.321-04:002014-07-17T12:01:47.321-04:00No.No.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22000558154623755062014-07-17T11:58:36.362-04:002014-07-17T11:58:36.362-04:00And Mr. Stump's comment proves a point. Few H...And Mr. Stump's comment proves a point. Few Howler readers follow the links. Thus he furthers the notion that it is the students who bear the cost of these highly paid celebrity campus performances.<br /><br />Not always, Mr. Stump. And not in this case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45801275683498271772014-07-17T11:21:23.846-04:002014-07-17T11:21:23.846-04:00When I was in college I got to see people as varie...When I was in college I got to see people as varied as Lilly Tomlin & G. Gordon Liddy perform (the word being especially appropo in Liddy's case) at university expense. Best ever was William Windom's "James Thurber." About as good as Holbrooks's "Mark Twain Tonight." <br /><br />I doubt anyone functioning at a university level would mistake Dowd for the Edward R. Murrow or Walter Lippman of her generation. But there is room, apparently, in student services budgets across the nation for the frothiest kind of entertainment. The kids will wind up paying for it in their loans till they're toothless.<br /><br />A speech by Dowd may not be the choice for my entertainment dollar (I'll stay home and watch Jon Stewart mug for the camera), but to each his own.Jeeves Stumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17716700263908484003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55373478725156409052014-07-17T10:52:55.782-04:002014-07-17T10:52:55.782-04:00Maureen is a nut and Bob is a nut. Which nut does ...Maureen is a nut and Bob is a nut. Which nut does more damage? Does one of these two nuts actually do some good?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79757654948954359492014-07-17T08:39:00.746-04:002014-07-17T08:39:00.746-04:00Oh, I get it. According to the Rules of Somerby, i...Oh, I get it. According to the Rules of Somerby, it's perfectly acceptable to repeatedly call someone mentally ill and insane as long as you don't make a specific diagnosis.<br /><br />Glad to have Bob's sheep around to clear that up.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87737307353435876352014-07-17T07:56:16.445-04:002014-07-17T07:56:16.445-04:001:23, well duh.
But you're trying to tell it...1:23, well duh. <br /><br />But you're trying to tell it to a troll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51929157999121738452014-07-17T01:23:30.536-04:002014-07-17T01:23:30.536-04:00Bob is not performing psychoanalysis on Dowd. He i...Bob is not performing psychoanalysis on Dowd. He is contrasting her rantings with observable reality. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23034921725828634722014-07-16T21:41:57.672-04:002014-07-16T21:41:57.672-04:00Only takes a dipstick.Only takes a dipstick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1768826924004579012014-07-16T20:57:44.760-04:002014-07-16T20:57:44.760-04:00Anyone can point out that there is something serio...Anyone can point out that there is something seriously wrong with Dowd. It takes an expert to say what.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34865838354764251462014-07-16T20:33:00.413-04:002014-07-16T20:33:00.413-04:00Look, I am not going to defend Dowd or her powers ...Look, I am not going to defend Dowd or her powers of psychoanalysis. Intellectually speaking, she'd be a mile wide and an inch deep if she were only a mile wide.<br /><br />But let's be consisent, shall we? What are Somerby's qualifications to psychoanalyze her -- or anybody else? He also does it with great regularity and predictability.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73988187278774776122014-07-16T20:02:24.742-04:002014-07-16T20:02:24.742-04:00Dowd's education consists of a B.A. in English...Dowd's education consists of a B.A. in English. She is not qualified to perform psychoanalysis on public figures. People who are properly trained learn to respect the limits of their ability to attribute motives to people they have not met and know very little about. That makes her a complete fraud.<br /><br />It is fair to psychoanalyze people in novels because either the author gave their characters such motives or they deliberately created characters so that readers could attempt to analyze them. The analyses have no real consequences for the people in those novels. That is not true of people in real life, where such fantasies can hurt others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25238187078159265462014-07-16T18:55:08.462-04:002014-07-16T18:55:08.462-04:00At what point to "Supplementals" turn in...At what point to "Supplementals" turn into a "Series"? We've had three in a row, all about the same Dowd column, and this one going to great lengths to show that Dowd is just as dumb in person. Who wudda thunk it?<br /><br />And I wonder what this is "Supplemental" to? Bob's new "War on Aristotle" series?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52232023530068209952014-07-16T17:06:34.124-04:002014-07-16T17:06:34.124-04:00Didn't Daddy's issues define all President...Didn't Daddy's issues define all Presidential candidates and all human kind?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11419015098272959162014-07-16T16:55:28.515-04:002014-07-16T16:55:28.515-04:00Wouldst the waspish tongue be silenced by suitor s...Wouldst the waspish tongue be silenced by suitor strong to say these words:<br /><br />You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Mo, <br />And bonny Mo and sometimes Mo the curst; <br />But Mo, the prettiest Mo in Christendom <br />Mo of Mo Hall, my super-dainty Mo, <br />For dainties are all Mos, and therefore, Mo, <br />Take this of me, Mo of my consolation; <br />Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, <br />Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, <br />Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, <br />Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67193136932855848402014-07-16T16:35:30.202-04:002014-07-16T16:35:30.202-04:00Ain't fakin.
Whole lotta quoque goin on.Ain't fakin.<br />Whole lotta quoque goin on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64042804682242724992014-07-16T16:15:56.836-04:002014-07-16T16:15:56.836-04:00Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Ad Hominem Tu Quoque<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com