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Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

She's not even the best writer on her page of the Times. She's Michael Lupica with ovaries.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

I think whole column shows disbelief.

Take this one sentence- "But as the administration inflates Iraq"

I think that's pretty clear that she does not believe the White House . There are a bunch of other columns Fenian but you'll have to pull them up . I must leave - 21 wants to show me a trick of how she can breath through her ears.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

OK, you're still overrating her.
But, enjoy yourselves, you crazy kids.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Hey fucktard I invite you to peruse my posts and find where I have ripped her.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Mo Dowd = Wildly Over-rated

I think that makes 9 things Fenian and I agree on

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Boom, I think we all know what you're doing here.

You sexist bastard.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

What's the big whoop? Mo bags on everybody. She's not in the tank for the Clintons, that's for sure. The hot smart girl just attacks power, that's all.
And she should be thankful she couldn't keep Michael Douglas.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

And when Maureen hits one out of the park, it's a tape-measure shot.

She's taken a lot of BP during the Bush Administration. But whose fault is that.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Very nicely done piece by Maureen.
Great writing. I always wonder if this is verbatim from what she sent to her editors, or was it edited here and there.
This is good writing.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

fixed. thanks.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Too bad Judy Miller wasn't a fan of Mo's writing style, either.

 

Re: Mo Dowd Sticks a Pin in the Obama Balloon

Based on this column it seems like it was mutual.

Woman of Mass Destruction


October 22, 2005
Op-Ed Columnist
Woman of Mass Destruction
By MAUREEN DOWD
I've always liked Judy Miller. I have often wondered what Waugh or Thackeray would have made of the Fourth Estate's Becky Sharp.

The traits she has that drive many reporters at The Times crazy - her tropism toward powerful men, her frantic intensity and her peculiar mixture of hard work and hauteur - have never bothered me. I enjoy operatic types.

Once when I was covering the first Bush White House, I was in The Times's seat in the crowded White House press room, listening to an administration official's background briefing. Judy had moved on from her tempestuous tenure as a Washington editor to be a reporter based in New York, but she showed up at this national security affairs briefing.

At first she leaned against the wall near where I was sitting, but I noticed that she seemed agitated about something. Midway through the briefing, she came over and whispered to me, "I think I should be sitting in the Times seat."

It was such an outrageous move, I could only laugh. I got up and stood in the back of the room, while Judy claimed what she felt was her rightful power perch.

She never knew when to quit. That was her talent and her flaw. Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, she was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers. She more than earned her sobriquet "Miss Run Amok."

Judy's stories about W.M.D. fit too perfectly with the White House's case for war. She was close to Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who was conning the neocons to knock out Saddam so he could get his hands on Iraq, and I worried that she was playing a leading role in the dangerous echo chamber that Senator Bob Graham, now retired, dubbed "incestuous amplification." Using Iraqi defectors and exiles, Mr. Chalabi planted bogus stories with Judy and other credulous journalists.

Even last April, when I wrote a column critical of Mr. Chalabi, she fired off e-mail to me defending him.

When Bill Keller became executive editor in the summer of 2003, he barred Judy from covering Iraq and W.M.D. issues. But he acknowledged in The Times's Sunday story about Judy's role in the Plame leak case that she had kept "drifting" back. Why did nobody stop this drift?

Judy admitted in the story that she "got it totally wrong" about W.M.D. "If your sources are wrong," she said, "you are wrong." But investigative reporting is not stenography.

The Times's story and Judy's own first-person account had the unfortunate effect of raising more questions. As Bill said yesterday in an e-mail note to the staff, Judy seemed to have "misled" the Washington bureau chief, Phil Taubman, about the extent of her involvement in the Valerie Plame leak case.

She casually revealed that she had agreed to identify her source, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, as a "former Hill staffer" because he had once worked on Capitol Hill. The implication was that this bit of deception was a common practice for reporters. It isn't.