Maureen Dowd: The ‘Mean’ Mama Grizzlies Are ‘Belittling Obama’s Manhood’

by Glynnis MacNicol | 10:25 am, October 17th, 2010

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For better of worse nothing fires up Maureen Dowd like powerful women. In today’s column her sights are set on the ‘Republican Mean Girls.’ In other words, Sarah Palin‘s Mama Grizzlies. Perhaps not surprisingly she has some rather mean words for this group (in the words of Drudge: MAUREEN DOWD UNLEASHED):

These women — Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama. Whether they’re mistreating the help or belittling the president’s manhood, making snide comments about a rival’s hair or ripping an opponent for spending money on a men’s fashion show, the Mean Girls have replaced Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold. They are the ideal nihilistic cheerleaders for an angry electorate.

Emphasis mine, because no one knows “belittling the president’s manhood” better than Maureen Dowd. Meanwhile, presumably MoDo managed to escape deportation:

As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I worried that Governor Brewer might make a citizen’s arrest and I would have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all, declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her state.

Christine O'Donnell, Jan Brewer, Mama Grizzlies, Maureen Dowd, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle

http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

MoDo is your hero. She is a loon. Glynnis and MoDo are the comic relief today. On Nov. 2nd they will need to be on suicide watch.
Puter Boi

I can totally see MODO being shoved into a gym locker in Junior High School….it would explain the bile that spews weekly….and would explain why she hides under her bed with a bottle of gin….a jar of olives….whimpering like the whiny phony that she is….
TfT

Awe, poor MODO, poor Glynnis.

These liberal women can’t stand that strong, conservative, pro-life, pro-American women are winning the day.

Can MODO get more unhinged? Sure….just wait for November 2.

This site, and others like it will be fun to read on the morning after.
Moderate

Glynnis and MoDo will need to be put on suicide watch on Nov 3.
sarainitaly

“We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your locker and, just for good measure, spread rumors that you were pregnant.

Even sober and smiling beneath her girlish bangs, the 61-year-old Angle had the slightly threatening air of the inebriated lady in a country club bar, tossing off outrageous statements and daring anyone to call her on them.”

Wow, how very misogynistic and sexist of her.
JamesA1102

sarainitaly said:
Wow, how very misogynistic and sexist of her.

For once I agree with Sara (who loves America so much she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healtcare).

Dowd is the last person to call anyone else a “Mean Girl”. Dowd’s column is like reading a spoiled teenager’s slam book.
Patrick Henry

JamesA1102 said:
For once I agree with Sara (who loves America so much she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healtcare).

That sounds suspiciously like another poster we know. I agree with Sara as well
Azarkhan

“As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I worried that Governor Brewer might make a citizen’s arrest and I would have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all, declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her state.”
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Poor thing. One problem (among many) with white leftists is that they soooo much want to be a “victim”. But it’s kinda difficult to fulfill that burning desire for victimhood when you are living in Manhattan and partying in the Hamptons.

Or as Sara Benincasa put it in a column titled: Maureen Dowd Now Shouldering the White Man’s Burden:

“What a smart and well-informed lede! She is of course qualified to say this because she has a black doorman, and also there is a black receptionist at the dermatology office where she gets her daily Botox transfusion.”
notsofast

Mo, you can get off your knees now; Barry knows when he has been licked– all over!
puck30

So Glynnis, what you and MoDo are telling me if the Republican ‘Mean Girls’ were at Karaoke and Barry & Joe walked in. This is the song they just might sing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757Juix9sBg
Rogue-Comic

I guess Dowd changed her tune towards “Spock.”
JimBob

No one is belittling, Maureens Dowd’s manhood, except maybe Frank Rich.
And that is only because he is jealous Dowd has a higher level of testosterone.
newzmaker

I wonder if Michelle Obama would take issue with a white woman, having thoughts about Obama’s ‘manhood.’ LOL.
feminista

Um…most of the comments so far regarding this story are sexist. But what seems to have been missed is the fact that MacNicol is actually subtly calling out Dowd. The opening sentence is clear evidence that she’s acknowledging that Dowd has a problem with strong women. Dowd is a notorious anti-feminist who thinks she’s a feminist. She was literally written up by the NY Times for her over-the-top sexist persecution of Hillary during the 2008 presidential primaries. The second big clue that MacNicol is criticizing Dowd is the bolded phrase “belittling the president’s manhood.” It’s just one more sign that Dowd has a serious, serious problem with women. No self-respecting feminist says crap like that with a straight face.

To lump the first self-made female billionaire, Meg Whitman, in with Sharon Angle and Sarah Palin as a “mean girl,” as MacNicol suggests, is not only just mean on Dowd’s part, but it’s just flat out wrong. Dowd needs to look in the mirror. She’s the original “mean girl” who likes nothing better than to tear down other women who are more powerful than herself and has taken delight in destroying women in print for years. She’s an embarrassment to women everywhere.
Big Eddie

And then spoke Dana : http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/250013/mean-maureen-dana-perino
Nahu Tuk

Moderate said:
Glynnis and MoDo will need to be put on suicide watch on Nov 3.

Why do that?

Got to admit, looks like Maurene has her drinking problem under control these days. I’m happy for her.
Ted-

Nahu Tuk said:
Why do that?

Got to admit, looks like Maurene has her drinking problem under control these days. I’m happy for her.

Perhaps someday you will get your spelling problem under control but somehow I doubt it.
shootfromthehip

Maureen Dowd nails it again. Great column today.

While we are on the subject, I’d nail Maureen any day of the week and vastly prefer nailing her to nailin’ Palin.
Mr.Papshmer

What do Maureen and Ted have in common? You can bet the farm that just about everything they write is really stupid.
Mr.Papshmer

shootfromthehip said:
While we are on the subject, I’d nail Maureen any day of the week and vastly prefer nailing her to nailin’ Palin.

Wow. Never mind that she’s like sixty years old. Just, wow.
SteveMG

Time out: I think (hope?) we all agree (on the left, right or center) that no public woman in America does more belittling of the manhood of men than Ms. Dowd. It’s her chief method of attacking men that she disagrees with.

And to top that with her complaint about the pettiness or snide commentary of conservative women is almost as remarkable. Dowd complaining about pettiness and snideness?

Does she have any self-awareness at all?
shootfromthehip

Mr.Papshmer said:
Wow. Never mind that she’s like sixty years old. Just, wow.

Is she 60?

Wow, looking good for 60!

I’d also bang Susan Sarandon, speaking of hot liberal older redheads.
Patrick Henry

shootfromthehip said:
I’d also bang Susan Sarandon, speaking of hot liberal older redheads.

Shoot, you crack me up! Are you serious?
Mr.Papshmer

shootfromthehip said:
Is she 60?

Wow, looking good for 60!

I’d also bang Susan Sarandon, speaking of hot liberal older redheads.

Well, regardless, you’re going to have to stick to masturbation as you visualize old ladies. The reason that liberals are liberals is because they’re jealous of the things other people have that they cannot.
Rogue-Comic

shootfromthehip said:
Is she 60?

Wow, looking good for 60!

I’d also bang Susan Sarandon, speaking of hot liberal older redheads.

You’ve only seen the heavily air-brushed pic that accompanies her articles haven’t you?
M Colins

Is there seriously any columnist on the national scene today who is in lesser regard than Dowd? What little respect she had years ago is eroded every time she publishes this nonsense.
shootfromthehip

Come on Comic and Mr. Papsmear.

I bet you both $100 that you would do Sarandon at least (and probably Dowd, too).

Redheads are hot.
Mr.Papshmer

shootfromthehip said:
I bet you both $100 that you would do Sarandon at least (and probably Dowd, too).

Not being a liberal, I don’t dwell on those things that aren’t mine. Besides, those two aren’t exactly pin up material.
Ted-

Mr.Papshmer said:
What do Maureen and Ted have in common? You can bet the farm that just about everything they write is really stupid.

pap smear – man, you really got me on this one. Wow, that was good; I have no comeback for this kind of brilliance. Congrats!!
Mr.Papshmer

Ted- said:
Wow, that was good; I have no comeback

I know, it’s because you’re mentally retarded.
Rusty Shackelford

Maureen has had a complete bitch on since Michael Douglas dumped her for Catherine Zeta Jones a few years ago. Good pick by Michael I might add.
Ted-

Mr.Papshmer said:
I know, it’s because you’re mentally retarded.

pap smear – If given a couple of hours, you can come up some real zingers. Got me again Einstein!!
BlackWidow

Mr.Papshmer please tell me you are NOT a GYN0???????
Ted-

Rusty Shackelford said:
Maureen has had a complete bitch on since Michael Douglas dumped her for Catherine Zeta Jones a few years ago. Good pick by Michael I might add.

Don’t give up on Douglas just yet Rust.
crclarkNY

What a hypocrite! What about the Democratic mean girls? Were’s the nasty column about them?
Big Eddie

Sad Dowd . …http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/maureen_dowd_and_revenge_of_th.html
J Baustian

I remember distinctly when Maureen Down wrote something worth reading. It was in the early stages of the Lewinsky scandal, and William Safire was still around to take her to the woodshed when she screwed up badly. (I bet she still misses those paddlings on her bare butt.)
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

The ‘Mean’ Mama Grizzlies Are ‘Belittling Obama’s Manhood’

Hmmmm… I think the Prez should get fitted for a Lil Wayne mouthpiece, and start wearing some chains around his neck and maybe a baggy hoodie, or baseball cap screwed on side ways. He just isn’t going to get any respect from the Betty’s if he keeps dressing like his whiter half…..
Nahu Tuk

Ted- said:
Perhaps someday you will get your spelling problem under control but somehow I doubt it.

OK dimwit, check the spelling on this: I’ve been reading your inane, uncivilized, and non-substantive retorts for a few days. Your inability to add anything germane to any discussion on this site displays your many inadequacies that I would imagine transcend to all areas of your life.

You behavior displays a sad, inept, individual behaving like a child, which Freudian psychologists would conclude that you must have had a miserable childhood for you are psychologically locked into that time when you suffered whatever traumatic event that took place.

People who display your kind of behavior are generally those who were caught and subsequently humiliated by their parents or some other authority figure in some sexually related miscreance, e.g. masturbating, wearing a female relatives clothing, or peeking in on a female while they were undressed. This event, whatever it was, has marked you for life.

People like you seldom have any real friends in their adult life and almost never can develop a meaningful relationship with the opposite sex. Those who come into contact with you do not like you and those who find the means to tolerate you do so out of pity.

How’s that for spelling?
http://none pyrope

Nahu Tuk said:
OK dimwit, check the spelling on this

SHAZAM! That had to have left a mark.
Firstrate

The public discourse has gone to the gutter. It’s evident on the podium in debates and here in comments. “Mean girls” may be accurate, but it is still name calling. Let’s just debate ideas and stop name calling everywhere.
C.Moore

Jack Burns said:
The ‘Mean’ Mama Grizzlies Are ‘Belittling Obama’s Manhood’ Hmmmm… I think the Prez should get fitted for a Lil Wayne mouthpiece, and start wearing some chains around his neck and maybe a baggy hoodie, or baseball cap screwed on side ways. He just isn’t going to get any respect from the Betty’s if he keeps dressing like his whiter half…..

Funny. why don’t put on you white hood, call your friends, pick up your confederate flag, lynching rope and a cross to burn on somebody’s lawn? P.S. the next KKK meeting is in 5 hours.