Maureen's New Age Exorcism

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Is America ready to be led by a New Age pundit? There's been much scrutiny of the respective religions of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. But do we need to reconsider Maureen Dowd's fitness for op-ed office in light of her revelation that she has apparently embraced New Age spirituality, even undergoing a New Age "exorcism" complete with swinging crystal?

I kept waiting for Dowd to say it was all a joke -- but she never did. Her column of today, "Am I a Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon?", describes her experience, conducted by one Faith Green: "a pretty, curvy 31-year-old green-eyed blonde, [who] says she has studied tribal shamanism, rolfing, Pilates, tango, movement and stretching."

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While Dowd evinces a modicum of doubt about the process, she also makes clear that this wasn't something she undertook as part of an expose of charlatans or simply as a goof. She writes [emphasis added]:

I’m having my house and body “cleared” for 2008, whatever that means. I’m more of a believer in mystery than mysticism. But I know for sure that New Year’s resolutions require too much discipline. An exorcism seems much easier.

She adds that rather than resort to other alternatives, it was "simpler to do a spiritual detox."

Dowd describes the daffy goings-on, from Faith "twirling a crystal over my green couch," to asking the shaman whether she, Maureen, had ever been a nun in a previous life [she hadn't].

So, is a pundit's New Ageism irrelevant, or . . . is it time for Dowd to address America and explain how her New Ageism affects her exercise of power on the pages of the New York Times?

Bonus Coverage: The Cackle Lives

Just for the heck of it, view the video here. From George Stephanopoulos's interview of Hillary broadcast on today's This Week. Hillary tries to laugh off Peggy Noonan's unflattering comparison of her to . . . Richard Nixon.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Huh?

What on earth is she talking about? John Sununu?

What's A Karma Chameleon?

More like Boy George . . .

The Curse

In 1995, Dowd claims that John Sununu cursed her and vowed vengeance. I put a snippet of that column on my blog.

http://dowdreport.bl...

Maureen's still here. Where's Sununu?

Dowd Report: All MoDo, All The Time

Dowd the Liberalgion

I realize this was written in satire, but Mr. Finklestein there is more going on in this than religion.

Maureen Dowd by her own admission is an Irish girl raised in an Irish family with all the trimmings where men are real men and women are real women cooking turkeys, trusting in God and having babies.

Dowd like all liberals are in rebellion from that life of orderly happiness and in fear their "lives" are going to be exposed for the theft they are.

Dowd honestly when fixed up is a pretty woman. Rush Limbaugh in being out with her said when the "boys" came over to rib him with typical "baby maker" humor and he cringed........he said Dowd just giggled and loved it.

I have posted here before that women like Dowd just crave, yearn, scream and are ornery over the fact all they want out of life is FOR A MAN, a Conservative man to tell them which end is up, that they are screwed up, made a mess out of their lives and that Dowd is going to go home, HIS HOME, cook, clean, make whatever kind of babies she can with her age and bring him a beer and chips while he complains about how girly she has with those panty hose in the crapper.........using terms like crapper, babe, sweetie, hot stuff and telling her he will beat the bajesus out of any guy who looks at her.

That is all Maureen wants just like all liberal women. They want a man they can pretend they roll their eyes over and are shaping for good and know they will never change him.........and they love it.

Dowd in her entire life has bought presents for jerk liberals she thought she could marry, but all they did was lie to her and take sex and run........later when Bill Clinton came into office she thought she had her replacement male as national daddy who cheated on Hillary with her like he did with all liberal women.........but that shrew Hillary won out again like all these women found out in the successful beefcake who was "leaving his wife" instead went back and there Dowd and all of them were with a big void again by liberal males.

Dowd like all liberals has called to God and God did not appear in a puff of Holy fire.........so they ran off and used sex and dope........ridiculed Ma and Pop for their shackled marriage.......hate George Bush and Christians.......eventually got such a load of sin they ran from God instead of getting things right........and now have crystals, Al Gore and Happy Holidays where enough vodka can't drown it all out.

In all honesty if Hillary had a Conservative Christian as a husband like David Limbaugh, she would be such a different customer that everyone would love her. She just needed a man to make her into a confident woman instead of a rapist degrading her bringing home VD and infecting her with it.

Liberal women are not that hard to figure out. They want what they can not have and are protesting too much for what they desire.

Maureen Dowd desires God, a faith like normal people and a Conservative gentleman to tell her how the world rotates and hold her to it..........and to have the expectation she will hold him to that same moral code too.

I have enough problems putting a rope on my own intended, otherwise it would be a pleasure training Maureen Dowd. She would make a good Christian wife if a Conservative would just throw a lasso on her and put her into the pen for some training so she could grow to all she should be.

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

EvilCon555 "I have enough

EvilCon555

"I have enough problems putting a rope on my own intended, otherwise it would be a pleasure training Maureen Dowd. She would make a good Christian wife if a Conservative would just throw a lasso on her and put her into the pen for some training so she could grow to all she should be."

 

Ummmm, Lame Cherry - I...uh...am just thanking God that Conservative Women don't need to be treated that way....or I'd be in a heapa poo...

 As for Maureen Dowdy, she is casting about for acceptance of this theory, or just the opposite. She has stuck her typing finger into the wind to help her decide if she believes this hocum or not. And depending on the response to her "opinion" of mysticism she will either make a New Year's Resolution to improve herself (and I would bet that means gettin' some down home Conservative ideals)...or she won't and somehow have enough of an excuse to shun those who do. I'm bettin' on the latter.

 

Happy New You Mo...

 

And Happy New Year to NB!

 LC I think's that's a bit

 LC I think's that's a bit of a far stretch. If you really want to put that screed to the litmus test, try it out on Amanda Marcotte or one of those other femi-nazi's over at Pandagon.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

Blazer, Lame Cherry specializes in hyperbole...

....within that framework his posts swing between "interesting" points of view and near-satire.

So, what MoDo is basically

So, what MoDo is basically saying is that, like all liberals, it's the game you talk, not the walk you walk that "means" something. Rather than examine her life, get organized, make necessary changes, and in short "improve in the New Year,"she went for the easy "non-fix." Just like the liberals' "in it together society", "new kind of politics," "start a conversation" fluff, she opted for the easy liberal way....pretty words, nice atmosphere, magical thinking...that accomplished.....nothing. (Well she may feel better about the mess her life is in now, because she "tried" to fix it.

For liberals, it's the "intention" you know, the "attempt"...whether or not you succeed, get results, is immaterial. You "tried." That's all that matters.

EvilCon555 Absolutely!!!

EvilCon555

Absolutely!!! On the nosey, Motherbelt...

is this really important?

reminds me of nancy reagan and her astrologer.

 at least dowd doesn't have an inside track to the president.

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Just for the heck of it, view the video here

... no, thanks, really, there's only so many times I can hear that ... "hearty" "laugh".

Aw, go ahead. It's so

Aw, go ahead. It's so sincere. Doesn't everyone laugh heartily when told they're more mistrusted than Nixon?

Waste not, want not

There comes a point when people have more than enough money to support and entertain themselves but are still deadly bored. So go spend: Oh there's another new shiny thing I haven't tried. Why not?

When that thrill wears off, onto the next and the next. Perhaps in the New Year Dowd might reconsider presenting herself with a difficult challenge worthy of her time which will actually help her find what she's really looking for.

Until then, I suppose it's more magic and illusion.

As for this New Age stuff being the subject of her latest column: She's not running for office but if she were I'm sure the LMSM would give her a pass on her capricious tastes in spiritualities.

 

 

It's going to take more than an exorcism to

get maureen dowd a man ... i give the hussy credit for trying though

Hey, I studied rolfing,

Hey, I studied rolfing, too - in College - usually after drinking too much beer.  Is that rolfing the same thing?  Does it matter?

Who is Maureen Dowdy?  Does it matter?

EvilCon555 Oops..."Dowdy"

EvilCon555

Oops..."Dowdy" must've been a "Freudiany Slippy".....

jdhawk

You beat me to it ... Was going to say the exact same thing. 

It's the college mantra, ya know ... "I rolf, therefore I am a college coed ..."

Poor MoDo must be yearning for her lost college days ...

Get a life folks!

M.O. is what? 55 years old or something? She's not some hot babe -- maybe she never was -- but she is now just what used to be called a spinster. She has every right to look for something to hold dear -- be it cystals or pyramids. Has she considered dating Paul Krugman? Now there's a guy who's NEVER been with a hot, semi-hot or just plain woman -- 55 years old or 25 years old.

But Does It Have The Pony Interior?

Mark, you have to admit . . . anyone with a '65 'stang has at least one redeeming quality!

Not bad. But my '98

Not bad. But my '98 Firebird Formula will blow its doors off.

Fortune cookie

It would have been cheaper, healthier and probably more effective for her to have gone out for Chinese and just believed in whatever the fortune cookie prophesy said. I am not so sure Lame Cherry's assessment is so far off the mark, although I also believe any libs who read it are at this very moment lying in the floor having conniption fits.

good chuckle over that...

thanks doug1950, the fortune cookie vision, while not quite 'coffee spewing' level, was great

The only thing wrong with

The only thing wrong with Mo is she hates men......

 

mom

I believe its just the

I believe its just the opposite. She "wants" desparately to hate men but when it is all said and done she really likes men but ends up hating herself for doing so and that pi**es her off; so you end up with love/hate thing she has going all the time. She is constantly trying to convince everyone she hates men. She spends too much time on the subject. If she truly hated men she would be indifferent to them and would have moved on by now. She probably spends a fortune on therapy.

Maureen McDodo

is like a lot of girls who went to Catholic schools and then "chose" the sec-pro road to perdition. In my experience, they either chose booze or New Age jabberwocky.

A lot of ex-Catholics like Tom Cruise [former seminarian] and John Travolta & Jenna Elfman went the Scientology route.

I'm surprised Maureen writes about her personal stuff---she must really take it seriously because it ain't a career boost to get "exorcised."

"Only the lonely can play" - the Motels

"I'm surprised Maureen writes about her personal stuff---she must really
take it seriously because it ain't a career boost to get 'exorcised.'"

Maureen
Dowd is a middle-aged feminist who early on bought into the Movement's
false promise of "Having It All," believing that with a fulfulling
career, everything else would fall into place. Mr. Right would be
come knocking at her door, hormones and devotion boiling over at the
very expectation of courting an intelligent, wealthy professional
woman. He would be madly in love with her because she was a
feminist ideal.

With her Pulitzer Prize and sizeable
wealth and fame, she is certainly a success in her profession, but the
rest --- namely, Mr. Right --- didn't fall into place as
promised. But instead of realizing that her personality might
just put men off, she prefers to believe another feminist
myth: males can't accept feminists on equal terms.

So, Dowd
now looks woefully into a future devoid of the genuine male
companionship she yearns. The feminist promise was a lie.

 

}}---> OK, Mark

Thanks for the Hillary Clinton channeling Marie LaVeaux treat.

But rather than keep a bookmark on my computer of "the cackle", I'd rather keep a simple bottle of Syrup of Ipecac in my First Aid Kit for emergencies.  It's much less harsh on my system.

I ♣ My Seal

Not exactly a cackle

I would describe it as more of a titter.

Dowd Report: All MoDo, All The Time

}}---> Hillary's my cackle moment.

If she's pitching, it's a no titter 

I ♣ My Seal

  "If she's pitching,

 

"If she's pitching, it's a no titter'

 

Thank's Cool, you owe me a keyboard. Liquor and electronic's dont' mix as well as liquor and triple-sec does.

 

 

 

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

A classic case of morality

A classic case of morality dictates theology if you ask me.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.

BTW - Thompson/Hunter