If Maureen Dowd had posted a joke aimed at John McCain referring to him as a "white asshole", her career would be over by now.
You must have read, or heard about, Maureen Dowd's latest anti-Clinton piece in which she quoted a comedian telling this joke about Hillary Clinton:
The joke goes: ''Obama is just creaming Hillary. You know, all these primaries, you know. And Hillary says it's not fair, because they're being held in February, and February is Black History Month. And unfortunately for Hillary, there's no White Bitch Month.
Context is everything, you might say, and I did not include the part in which Dowd pretended to be offended by this joke.
But the larger and most important context is Dowd's history:
This was, according to TPM blogger Greag Sergeant, Dowd's fourth straight anti-Clinton piece.
It is no secret that Dowd hates Hillary Clinton more than anybody in the world, and she and her husband have become not her central theme, but the only theme.
What David Shuster said about Chelsea Clinton pales in comparision.
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