Maureen Dowd has been jonesing for her old habit, and today she finally gives in and binges on Clinton-Sex-o-rama. A tissue of lies, quarter-truths, trash gossip and shallow idiocy ensues.
Bill Clinton elevated his neuroses into a management style, running a chaotic White House that took its tempo from his adolescent indulgences and from his volatile marriage....In her acid flashback of a new book, "For Love of Politics," Sally Bedell Smith describes how First Lady Hillary routinely unmanned Bill and his aides, and engaged in sharp spurts of temper that sparked his temper. "Hillary’s anger was bound up in the intricacies of her marital bargain, which engendered rivalry and resentment along with mutual dependence," Ms. Smith writes. Political power was her reward for his marital infidelity.
Here's the one basic thing you need to know about Maureen Dowd: she has never lived anywhere other than Washington, D.C. Her dad was the chief of the Senate police force. She went to high school at Immaculata and college at Catholic U. She started her career as a ball girl at the DC Tennis Association, then got a job taking dictation at the Washington Star, and schemed her way up from there. Psychically, she's never really left the bitchy all-girl gossip sessions of Immaculata, with their fevered speculation about what lies in the mysterious realm of popular boys' pants, and their wrinkle-nosed disapproval of those same boys' sloppy study habits.
If Hillary Clinton wins the Presidency, I hope she uses every tool at her disposal to destroy Maureen Dowd. At a minimum, Dowd should never get a White House interview again.