Dick Dastardly and His Amazing Torture Machine

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Sunday May 17, 2009 · 8:04 AM PDT

2009/05/17 · 08:04

Maureen Dowd gets to the bottom of the torture debate by declaring that Cheney's dastardly desire for harsh interrogation was always about finding a non-existent al Qaeda-Iraq link.

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Saturday March 21, 2009 · 11:50 PM PDT

2009/03/21 · 23:50

Maureen Dowd continues her screed against the Masters of the Universe making multiple allusions to the Tom Wolfe novel about wayward bond traders.

Plus a super movie poster parody in the extended post.

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 4:22 AM PST

2009/02/03 · 04:22

David Denby, an obscure film critic from a magazine nobody reads anymore, decided to make a name for himself by trashing Maureen Dowd in a book called Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal and It's Ruining Our Conversation. While the nominal reason is to advocate a return to civility, the real reason is to go on a character assassination tirade against Maureen Dowd.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 6:01 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 06:01

Anyone thinking Maureen Dowd wouldn’t go off on the reports of Sarah Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree was sadly mistaken.

Politico broke the news that the Republican National Committee spent over $150,000 on a "Pretty Woman"-style shopping spree for Palin, including about $75,000 at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and nearly $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and St. Louis.

But the Julia Roberts "hooker with a heart of gold and credit card of platinum" movie isn’t the only Movies With Maureen® we get. She also returns to the My Fair Lady motif she mined back in the "My Fair Veep" column by comparing Palin to Eliza Doolittle to the extend that the campaign hired a speech coach to make sure "the snow in Juneau falls mainly on the moose."

Maureen also makes a rather weird presidential succession hypothesis about Palin's presidential chances.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 4:54 AM PDT

2008/05/07 · 04:54

In today's New York Times, Maureen Dowd comes up with a baffling metaphor where Hillary Clinton is a scorpion and Barack Obama is a butterfly. A better analogy is the old tale where a scorpion is crossing a river on the back of a frog. The scorpion stings the frog even though both will drown. The scorpion just says "It's in my nature."

Similarly, pundits get their nose all out of joint when Maureen Dowd points out the weaknesses in candidates. There is nothing to be done about it; it's just in her nature.

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Sunday April 06, 2008 · 10:40 AM PDT

2008/04/06 · 10:40

In her Sunday column The Vodka Chronicles, Maureen Dowd goes through the vices that the candidates have. McCain despite having a nasty reputation is a surprisingly light drinker. Hillary, on the other hand, can really knock back the vodka while Obama tries to look like he's drinking even when he isn't.

And while Obama claims his days of weed and blow are behind him, his relationship with nicotine is more shaded. Not only does he smoke, he also litters. The only person to escape Maureen's approbation is Bill Clinton whose skirt chasing with his billionaire buddies seems quaint by comparison.

Pop references this week are movies Top Gun and Election related to McCain and Clinton respectively. She also uses the nicknames McNice and Big Dog. No Obambi in sight.

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Sunday March 23, 2008 · 7:04 AM PDT

2008/03/23 · 07:04

In her Sunday column, Maureen Dowd looks at the chances of Hillary sneaking out a win using superdelegates. She sees Hillary as some sort of unstoppable Terminator machine.

But, Dowd warns, Hillary has burned too many bridges with the high Democratic leaders to count on their support.

Pop cultural references this week include the aforementioned Terminator movies as well as Murder On The Orient Express.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 6:00 AM PDT

2008/03/12 · 06:00

In her NYT column today, Maureen Dowd briefly averts her gaze from the Clinton campaign to rubberneck at the Sptizer trainwreck. She has some suspiciously detailed insight into the world of escort services. And naturally the mention of sex scandal reminds of of Bill and Monica.

She also lays into Geraldine Ferraro for her racially insensitive remarks about her Obama. And then says that Geraldine will never be half the man that Hillary is.

Pop cultural references today include an old Bette Davis movie, Macbeth, and The Untouchables.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 4:14 AM PST

2008/03/05 · 04:14

Maureen Dowd, writing a column for that rag the New York Times blames/credits Hillary Clinton's latest primary victories on women that use pads. Shoulder pads, that is.

She goes for "ism" trifecta by saying that Hillary beat the upstart Obama by appealing to old white women. And the polling data bears it out.

Pop culture references are light this week with just one rerun of a Gloria Gaynor classic.

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Sunday March 02, 2008 · 4:33 AM PST

2008/03/02 · 04:33

In her Sunday column, Maureen Dowd accuses Hillary Clinton of Strangelovian fear mongering with the 3 AM commercial. But Dowd doesn't think it is particularly good or effective.

Pop cultural references this week include Dr. Strangelove, Saturday Night Live, Mommie Dearest and a special guest appearance by (O)bambi.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 4:20 AM PST

2008/02/27 · 04:20

In a color-filled column, Maureen Dowd says that Hillary may be wearing canary yellow, but she is pea-green with envy over Obama's continued status as the golden child.

Pop cultural allusions made today include Gone With The Wind, Sybil, The Golden Child, Do The Right Thing, The Manchurian Candidate, and Saturday Night Live.

But Maureen concludes that even as Hillary goes on the offensive, it may be too little too late as her bid for the presidency circles the drain.

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Sunday February 24, 2008 · 7:18 AM PST

2008/02/24 · 07:18

Maureen Dowd abandons any hope of staying topical and going after the McCain lobbyist kerfuffle and instead hammers home the effeminzation (if that's a word) of Barack Obama. Dowd pulls out every gender-based innuendo that she can muster.

In her Sunday column "¿Quién Es Less Macho?", she accuses Obama of everything feminine short of lactating. The title of the column is a reversal of a famous Saturday Night Live sketch where contestants have to guess who is more macho. Only Dowd thinks it is the least macho that will win.

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