Dowd: Palin Sees Obama As 'Human Prey' She Seeks To Shoot

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Nothing like a presidential assassination metaphor to spice up an otherwise insipid Sunday column . . .

Churning out yet another anti-Sarah screed, Dowd descended to this today [emphasis added]:

"At the moment, what she wants to do is tap into her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey: cerebral Ivy League Democrats.

Just as she was able to stir up the mob against Barack Obama on the trail, now she is fanning the flames against another Harvard smarty-pants — Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a White House health care adviser and the older brother of Rahmbo."

So Sarah wants to shoot the brother of Pres. Obama's chief of staff, along with the president himself.  Per Dowd, they're nothing but "human prey" to Palin.

Demonstrating that she is as clueless as she is reckless, Dowd dings Palin for using Facebook to advocate against anti-ObamaCare. Maureen mocks Facebook as "a forum . . . more commonly used by kids hooking up and cyberstalking."

So Maureen, who are Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Rahm Emanuel or . . . you yourself, hooking up with or stalking? 

Note: elitist Dowd also manages to condescend to average Americans.  Are you opposed to PBO and his policies?  You're nothing but a member of a pliable "mob."


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Obama Taught from Book Dedicated to Lucifer

Barack Obama taught ACORN using the Saul Alinsky book 'Rules for Radicals' (a book dedicated to Lucifer) as his textbook.

Saul Alinsky taught in his book, that the only way you could get the American people to accept 'Radical Change' that they would NOT ordinarily be willing to accept was:

“They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.”

RG... Right you

RG...

Right you are...only this time their perfectly laid plans are backfiring on them...big time.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Will somebody please...

Sedate this woman!!!!!!

 Maureen it not the people

 Maureen it not the people in helicopter you have to worry about, it’s the dogcatcher.

 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

I bet Sarah has a

I bet Sarah has a tranquilizer gun that would come in handy.

Will somebody please...

...treat this woman for chronic vaginosis -- you know, the putrid scaly kind.

~Will somebody please...

Treat this guy for chronic vulgarity -- you know, the putrid scaly kind.

Dissent: It's not just for liberals anymore.-kudzupolitics, USA Today

Keep poking the MOB, MoDo

The more these liberal journalists defend Obama's policies and his indefensible advisors, the more informed people will become.

Brother Zeke is a dangerous man.  In his own words on the allocation of scarce medical resources (which he calls Complete Lives System):

When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated (figure).

I find it obscenely sick (sorry for the bad pun) that Obama and his liberal supporters are accusing the right of using "scare tactics" when their core systems theory is enough to scare a sane person into the asylum after one reading.

For people who are so into nuance, they willfully and maliciously misunderstood (h/t Brian Williams) Palin's death panel metaphor.  I suspect she was attempting to wake people up by using this language, and if she has, good on her!

I truly hope the leftists keep poking the sleeping giant on this issue, because it's not going to go away, and the MOB is not going to shut up.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Barack Obama's Agenda -> Redistribution of Everything

Redistribution of Health Care

Redistribution of Wealth.

Redistribution of Housing.

Redistribution of Food.

Redistribution of Automobiles.

Barack Obama's goal is all about 'REDISTRIBUTION' period.

Barack Obama is advocating 'Stealing' money from some citizens to redistribute to other Citizens.

It is NEVER right to do wrong to do right.

Any deed no matter how 'Good' it may seem, is wrong when it is based on 'Stealing'.

I would add to that: Obama

I would add to that: Obama is against -

  • Big oil/energy
  • Big pharma
  • Big banks
  • Big auto
  • Big insurance

And completely over the top FOR Big government.

D

 

Write Congress and Senate and tell them what YOU think!

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Dowd dings Palin for using

Dowd dings Palin for using Facebook to advocate against anti-ObamaCare.
Maureen mocks Facebook as "a forum . . . more commonly used by kids
hooking up and cyberstalking."

LOL...another liberal smarta$$ hoist on her own petard.

Apparently someone as smart as MoDo sees no need to do research.

I will allow that Dowd is using the "shooting" thing metaphorically. But even at that, the comparison isn't legitimate.  "Aerial shooting" implies attacking from above, out of range, with no fear of counterattack.  Sarah Palin has definitely put herself out there for counterattack.

This is more proof that Dowd has left the land of reasoned debate and now uses her column as a personal tool to vent her spleen about whomever she takes a dislike to.

If she can't pull herself back, she just gives people reason to call her a hysterical, menopausal b!tch.

Motherbelt

"... a hysterical, menopausal b!tch."

That's a good one.

The reason Maureen Dowd

The reason Maureen Dowd hates hates Palin with such supernatural strength is because Dowd made the mistake of her life when she gave up having children and a happy marriage. She bought into the false premise a woman could not have a carreer and a family too. Typical '70's Feminism. Now, poor old Maureen is a childless harpy, a straight razor toe'd woman as they say. Palin has children and a husband, and was a Governer, and VP candidate and emerging as a national leader. And she still has a family. No wonder old Maureen hates her success so much. She must denigrate Palin to vindicate her own sad life. Maureen will NEVER admit the truth: Palin is a success, Dowd is a failure in life. HATE, HATE, HATE, is Maureen's mantra.

Dowd

Right on the money, nada. 

 

"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY 

Ding, ding, ding.....

We have a winner! You hit the nail squarely on the head. Palin is the antithesis of MoDo and proves without any shadow of doubt a real woman can have it all; career, family, friends, and follow their own intersests. Palin has all that and more while Dowd sits in her apartment with her cats and has none or little of that lie foisted on women by feminists. Some of her bitterness and resentment is deep down inside she knows too that is was and is a lie. Meanwhile, all or most of her fellow feminist travelers have abandoned the cause, have grown up and gone on to have it all as well (even Gloria Steinham (sp) has married a "man").

She sees herself as the only one who has been true to their cause but meanwhile ironically she looks for targets like Palin to take aim at for illustrating her failures. The very thing she is accusing Palin of doing she is doing with each subsequent post about Palin. Most of the other MSM and columnist have moved off of the Palin story. She is just trying to resurrect some attention. No one cares anymore what she has to say and haven't for a long time. 
If she continues in this direction she will undoubtedly end up old, alone, clutching her awards and looking like Helen Thomas. A sad old bag lady who smells like onion soup and cat litter.

One other thing, Palin was a beauty contestant as well and is still a fantastic looking woman, MoDo was and is not. Just one more item NOT on her resume. NO man in his right mind would want to have anything to do with this woman or touch her with a ten foot gaff.

Right On !

Someone made a comment on the Foxnews.com opinion page that summed it up quite nicely.

 

"Sarah Palin causes these women to take stock of themselves, and they don't like what they find."

Free

What a straight up perfect answer to the harpies who inhabit the MSM and push the liberal failure agenda.

Wonderful quote and great catch!  That quote is priceless.  Can I borrow it?  Haahaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaa ha 

Free & Ex

I'm with expat .... GREAT FIND !!!!

* Jots down note-to-self for his next facebook status. *

 

MrShy

I am honored to be noticed.  Thanks for including me.

T

misplaced by author... Oops!

 

Totin'.... Not 'toed' nadadhimmi...

From "Poke Salad Annie" by Tony Joe White:

"A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman..."  (RE: Annie's Ma.  Working on the chain gang). 

Perfect description of MoDo.

Oh!  "Poke".  (NOT 'Polk')

A poke is a sack or bag and is the origin of the word pocket. The
word is still in use in several English-speaking countries, notably
Scotland and USA. A poke is just the sort of bag that would be useful
for carrying a piglet to market.  i.e. "Pig in a..."

Thus endeth the clarification of southernisms for today.

Yankees. :-)

I guess...

...that "spinster" tag is really taking a toll on ol' MoDo.

MoDo is 57 and still ...

Well, she's still a lot of things, but I was going to say that she's 57 and still bases her opinions of people based on where they went to college.  I guess it's a Manhattan/northeast elitist snob thing.

RE: Dowd dings Palin for using

"MoDo sees no need to research."

You got that right. MoDo has 2 friends on Facebook. Virtually all media folk who understand the new media have very active Facebook presence -- scores of friends, fan pages and/or group pages -- which they use to promote writing their thoughts and ideas. Savvy politicians, too.

Snarky, bitter old NYT columnists, not so much.

It is my two cents. Let me spend it.  -Anon

mb slight correction

a hysterical, post-menopausal b!tch.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

I just wish I had a

I just wish I had a fraction of Palin's power to drive these people nuts.

___________________________________ 

"Tax the rich" is a basically unstable way of governing - The NYT

"I just wish I had a

"I just wish I had a fraction of Palin's power to drive these people nuts"

Fortunately for you and me, a fraction is all it takes. Just existing is too much for these Death Panel Deniers.

Just the Reflection in the Mirror

Dowd's column highlights the hypocrisy of liberals.  Although they bill themselves as "enlighten" and "tolerant", they project their hate onto conversatives.  They believe all conservates want to "kill" their opponents just as they do.   

They are tolerant just as long as everyone else believes and acts just like them. 

 

 

Barack Obama is all about 'Power and Control

When studying the Saul Alinsky method of 'Community Organizing', certain basic tenets become apparent to a critical thinker.

One must remember that Barack Obama used the Alinsky book 'Rules for Radicals' (dedicated to Lucifer) as a Text Book when teaching ACORN radicals and when Obama was 'Organizing Communities'.

"You want to organize for power!" Saul Alinsky

Alinsky and his followers. realize that 'Do Gooders', people who actually care about poverty, unemployment, living conditions, hunger and so on - are and will actually become liabilities because they would side track the main goal which is 'Power and Control'.

Alinskyites believed that 'Power' was the real enemy and only by wresting 'Power' from the hands of the oppressors and and holding that power themselves, could they control what needed to be accomplished.

Vladimir Lenin taught that 'Political Power' was nothing more and nothing less, than the ability to decide who could do what to whom.

Lenin and Alinsky were both correct from a 'Cold and Calculating' perspective

Barack Obama learned these basic tenets thoroughly and will discard any and all persons who actually 'Care' about Health Care for Altruistic reasons because the real Obama Goal is power and control to install the real Agenda of Marxist/Socialism.

Barack Obama's 'Health Care for all' cannot be understood
until it is looked at from the proper perspective.

Baracak Obama does NOT know what is in the Bills, doesn't care what is in the bills, doesn't care whether it comes from the Democrats or Republicans, Obama only wants the control of 1/6 of the American Economic system and the power and control over every American Citizen with databases on everything about each citizen.

Barack Obama has only one goal, everything else is not only secondary but is simply a method to realize that goal.

"REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH".

This woman needs a man...

Any volunteers? 

Support Our Troops. God bless the military.
http://adoptaplatoon...

I Got One!

I spoke to the town drunk in Lake Dallas, he said "buy me a couple of Forties and I'll take her."

 You see--there's someone for everyone!

"Beware the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden

Well

There is always Olbermann.Oh wait you said a man.Better make that Maddow.

How much longer before the

How much longer before the NYT folds and puts these worthless columnists and journalists out of a job?  

Semper suprene nitens

OBAMACARE: If it ain't good enough for my Congressman then it ain't good enough for me.  

 

They Won't Fold!

The Tele-Prez will bail them out! He needs Pravda to support his Communist Propaganda!

Sarah Palin threatens all that Liberals hold dear

Liberals are saying Comrades, er uh I mean fellow Democrats, "Palin has zero experience as a Community Organizer". How could she possibly be ready to lead America?

Why she has never even taught ACORN how to 'Steal Elections'.

Democrats say Sarah Palin has NO plagiarism experience, like Joe Biden.

One World Government supporters are afraid, Sarah Palin will NOT appease Iran and Syria, not to mention Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam.

Democrat Elitists scream, how many articles has she written for Harvard Law Review?

Democrat leaders scream we have not heard her say "um", "uh" or "er" once, how could she possibly communicate with Obama followers?

Affirmative Action advocates complain, Sarah Palin has NEVER even fulfilled any kind of quota.

Obama Cultists state, Our Obama-Messiah has created a whole new class of Americans, 'Bitterclingers' who might see this 'SarahCudda' as relating to them.

Quoting 'Messiah Obama' "this is NOT acceptable".

Pro-Choice feminists scream, this woman doesn't represent 'The American Woman', she didn't even allow her young to die in a dirty hospital utility room alone.

Code Pink supporters screech, Sarah Palin was pictured with a gun and a soldier. Need we say more about her lack of Patriotism?  

Metrosexuals recoil and hiss, Horrors of Horrors - she doesn't seem to know her place in the 'Collective'.

Radical Educators say, how will we explain to the children that the Palin family doesn't have two mommies or two daddies.

All Liberals agree, what Sarah Palin represents destroys all that they hold dear.

RT, You're right

You're right that Palin is a threat to everything liberals hold dear.  It scares them that she is so successful while living by principles that Liberals claim hold people back.  The point I think you're making is that all the attacks on Palin are personal - there's never any real substance to the liberals' criticisms.  It just goes to show how small Liberals can be when they're really scared of someone.

I know it's the popular

I know it's the popular theory, and many here say that liberals are terrified of Sarah Palin, but I'm going to disagree here, like I have done before. (I know I'm in the minority).

Going with the "they hate her because they are afraid of her" is too simplistic, in my opinion. 

I honestly don't think Liberals are afraid of Palin.  I think they quite simply  despise her.  It infuriates  them that someone who is so "beneath" them, so contrary to their own thinking and ideals is successful and popular. 

They simply cannot believe it, and therefore have to tear her down, which is why they have to paint her as a quitter and a loser.

 

 

Which is why they hate her and are afraid of her.

aposematic in VA

That's your opinion. I

That's your opinion.

I still disagree.  I don't think they "hate" her.  "Despise" is different.

It means they have contempt, no respect for her.

You don't fear someone for whom you have no respect, because you don't think they can hurt you.

I agree with you

And I think they despise Palin not only because of her politics, but because she is the antithesis of something liberals absolutely slobber over- royalty.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

nwahs

So long as it's Democrat "royalty".

 

We Common Folks Embarrass Elitists

Elitism is a state of mind NOT privilege and wealth. Many wealthy people are not elitists and many elitists are not wealthy.

Liberal Elitists expect us to recognize their “superiority” and give them the special treatment they so richly deserve – not because of skill or what they have accomplished – but because of whom they think they are.

Everyone has known an elitist, they name drop and have pictures of themselves with some celebrity. They often live well above their means and own pretentious homes and cars. They pay to be listed in 'Who's Who' and have all sort of certificates hanging on their walls.

Elite feminists scream, Sarah Palin doesn't represent 'The American Woman', she didn't even allow her young to die in a dirty hospital utility room alone.

The Elitists 'real' problems with Sarah Palin are threefold - religion, her role as wife and mother and her 'commoness' in intellect.

We 'common folk' are truly sorry we embarrass the Elitists, maybe they can keep enlightening us.

Sarah Palin embodies the things elitists detest most and what most Americans represent .

Sarah's HOT , Dowd is NOT -- and THAT'S the problem!

I think Maureen Down USED TO BE hot ... but not she's NOT, and
Sarah Palin gets all the eyes in Washington. And Dowd  --  with her
self-adoration is not enough to feed an insatiable appetite. In other
words  ... Dowd has a  wierd sexual-tension/frustration for Sarah Palin --
and Palin doesn't even know she(Dowd) is alive. Which shoves back on
Dowd so hard ...  she's forced (like ALL 13 year old girls) to say
ANYTHING that will get the lunch crowd (and mostly Palin) to notice her
again ... and give her back her RELEVANCE.

Sarah is ... PALIN  --  but Dowd is PATHETIC.

 mclantiere

Angry White New York Times Female

Just as she was able to stir up the mob against Barack Obama on the trail, now she is fanning the flames against another Harvard smarty-pants

Smarty-pants -- that's liberal code for "dumb-ass."

Dowd is so scared of opinion, that after 11 comments, she has closed her article to comments

Here's an example of Easikill Emanuels "smarts" as he justifies discriminating against the old. Despite the fact that age discrimination is state and feberal crime in employment

His proposition is that, unlike discrimination on grounds of race, it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate agianst the older citizen because every 65 year old was once 25, while a person cannot change their color.

I'm surprised Obama hasn't banned this because it sure is tortured reasoning.  Consider the circular logic (sic) here.

By all statistics, apart from catastrophic events, the average 25 year old will not be consuming healthcare, though they will be paying for it. Forced to under Obama Bad Health.

They will be paying for it until they are at least 65, by which time they will no longer be assessed as being young enough for the state to benefit from the heathcare they have been paying for all their lives since they were 25.

Get that?  You have to pay from the age of 25 for something that by the time you are 65 will be rationed to you because you are no longer of the same utility to "society" as a 25 year old, as defined by weird nutjobs like Emanuel

Hey... that is so SMART. Who could object to that?

Nice piece of linguistic slang for my US chums. In Brit slang when you call something or someone "pants," you mean it sucks major league suckage.

So Ezekiel sure is PANTS.  Smart, not so much, except to weird liberals.

Barack Obama voted for a single payer government bad healthcare system before he voted against it!

Why does anyone pay

Why does anyone pay attention to this idiotic drug addict?

Maureen Dowd attacks Sarah Palin

Is this not a case of sheer projection?  Dowd thoroughly enjoys the act of the attack.  Harvard and other elite university graduates appear to be her favorite targets (including, interestingly enough, both Al Gore and George W. Bush. Both should qualify as Harvard "smartypants").  Perhaps Dowd harbors deep insecurities.

We just saw the deep-thinking Obama tell us that the Post Office has all the problems, particularly when compared with Federal  Express.  He managed, in one single sentence, to completely vindicate the critics of his healthcare initiative.  We have seen other examples off cerebral ponderings from, among others,  President Clinton  (another elite school graduate).  The lesser intellects thought they had already figured out "..what the meaning of 'is' is..." and moved on. Not so our favorite J.D. from Yale. 

 An impressive lot, these cerebral Ivy League politicians (William Jefferson, a now convicted Democrat from Louisiana, should also qualify among our more recent "stars").

MoDo didn't go to an Ivy league school

According to Wikipedia (yes, I know, but it's quick to navigate), MoDo earned her BS degree from Catholic University.  Maybe she learned in her DC and NY career that only Ivy League graduates are worthy of respect.  Let it go, MoDo.

How many of those responsible for our bank mess are Ivy League graduates?

 

  But if you read past the

  But if you read past the smugness and East Coast eliteism you'll notice that a mere entry onto her facebook page Sarah caused the Whitehouse and it's defenders to have to respond.  The term for that is power.

It's fantastic. One apt

It's fantastic. One apt populist phrase. They are right to be scared of her. Which is why they invest so much time and effort.

Barack Obama voted for a single payer government bad healthcare system before he voted against it!

Spot On

Great observation.  And it is this power Sarah holds that Dowd hates so much.

www.btreasures.com 

 

Smarty Pants

Mo and Zeke and the rest of the elite aristocracy in America today can put their money where their collective mouth is and give away all their possessions to those who do not have them.

That's right Mo -- give up your homes, cars, jewelry, books, health insurance, clothes, food, entertainment expenditures, etc to those who don't have the same.

Do it Mo, I challenge you and Zeke to do it.  Oh that's right. You want me and the rest of the "regular folk" to do it and give you guys a pass.

You will do it if I have to Mo or I will do it for you if it comes to that. Hear me Mo?

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...ah Mo, how soon you Ivy Leaguers forget history -- and you are the "smarty pants" crowd eh?

Hey honey, where are my knitting needles?

Does anyone read Dowd as a

Does anyone read Dowd as a serious thinker, or has her shock jock drivel been relegated to sites like this?  It is hard to imagine that anyone discerns any sort thought provocation from her mindless blather.  If newsbusters, Fox, et al just ignore her, maybe she will fade away?  The only time I ever hear of her is in this context....guess what Maureen the attention whore said today.....

Enforce Term Limits if They Won't:  Vote Against ALL Incumbents in 2010.

              

                      Mob, yes. Pliable, no. Can you imagine what would happen if a conservative said these things?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Maureen Dowd, aka, Mainstream Dumb!

Maureen is just another in a long list of MSM mouthpieces for the Tele-Prez non-administration! For your information, Mssssssssss. dowdddddddddddd, I am in the process of reading this Congressional Monstrousity inappropriately called the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009! What a joke!

Take for instance the Obamlie [Obama lie], "if you like your current healthcare, you will be alliowed to keep it." Bull feathers1 Only if it remains exactly in line with the government plan from year to year. Do you think the government plan is going to stay consistent from year to year? Hogwash! Therefore, as soon as the government plan changes, you are Royally Screwed! You can't win becaused the provisions in the bill require your plan to be the same as the government plan with its inception and cannot change one iota! When the government plan is altered, your plan is no longer valid and you are no longer allowed to keep it! Thus you are forced into the "One Provider System."

As usual, the Communist Congress of the United States of Socialist Repuplics uses deception to sell a plan to us that takes away our freedom. Its a form of Government Date Rape!

Sorry for the side track but my point to Maureen Fraud and all the little Obunchkins in the press is, no one is calling for the death of anyone in the White House, aka the Wack House. We are calling for the defeat of the Communist style of government led by Comrade Mao See Obama!

Good Grief!! Somebody needs

Good Grief!! Somebody needs to get back on her meds and quick!!

Dowd, A Straight Shooter?

Apparently Ms Dowd is the worst shooter in the world. She has taken so many dirty shots at Palin yet Palin is not only still standing but standing way above the concocted stories in which Dowd's demented mind fantasizes.

aposematic in VA

When you go for walk in the

When you go for walk in the park and you see a stinky, steaming pile of "$hit*" what do you do?  You avoid  it. 

 

The NY Times with current ownership has become a stinky steaming pile of "$hit*".  Dowd, Rich, Brooks, et al. all part of the cause or covered in the "$hit*"

 

I would walk around it and ignore it.  It is not worth thinking about.

Dowd at it again

Shake your moneymaker--by that I mean Sarah Palin.

MoDo

Should the Secret Service be investigating the charge that Palin is planning to "shoot" the president and his supporters?  They would, of course, start with an interrogation of Ms. Dowd as to where she learned of such a plot, and if she knows any of the particulars of other participants, accessories, facilitators, etc.

Now THAT would be an interesting story for her to relate in one of her Sunday columns.

Nothing like a little intellectual dishonesty

Nothing like a little intellectual dishonesty to combat intellectual dishonesty, eh Mark?  Hell, intellectual dishonesty is appalling, except when we do it.

You think that would have been a presidential assassination metaphor or possibly an aerial wolf shooting metaphor? So I'm supposed to believe you are out of touch with news or completely forgot about Palin's administration paying $150 for wolves shot from the air.

Did you miss that, Mark or  perhaps you are entitled to be intellectually dishonest and no one else is?  I would hope you are not so out of touch that you didn't know about the wolf bounties.

I think this is more conservative entitlement. Conservatives are allowed, are entitled  to use intellectual dishonesty because they are intrinsically good.

Oh I get it. You're combating the numerous articles claiming right wing media is raising the threat level on Obama. More childish tit for tat. Yea I get it.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

Hhmm

her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey:

 Where is the word wolf, I see the word human, followed by names. 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

The word wolf isn't in there

 It isn't in there, and if someone didn't follow the Presidential campaign and the attacks on Palin by wildlife groups, her administration support for aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska, they probably wouldn't get the metaphor.

I sincerely hope Mark is not that out of touch with politics. I don't think he is, but I think he hopes you are.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

No I think

Mark pretty much summed up what MoDo had in mind. Why else would she use the term "Aerial shooting", thats right, to fit the campain metiphor, but this time subsituting humans for wolfs

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Yea, well I think its a dishonest article

You might think it fine, I just think its dishonest. If I had an accountant hold back information like Mark just held back, I'd fire him.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

I'd fire YOU

And if I had an accountant who added false information like YOU did (wolves weren't even mentioned, you added that) I'd fired him!

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

I'm saying thats where the metaphor comes from

I'm saying the metaphor come from the attacks on Palin during the election, for supporting a bounty on wolves that were shot from the air, and a front leg cut off and turned in for $150. Its not a presidential assassination metaphor. In fact the article never says a word about  anyone taking aerial shots at Obama. There is no presidential assassination metaphor in the column - NONE. The article is about Palin taking shots at Zeke Emanuel.

Why do I think the secret service are reading my post at this point?  I think if I post those two words many more times, I'm going to wind up in a folder somewhere.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

And I'm saying that you're ignoring the real metaphor

And I'm saying that you're ignoring the real metaphorical argument proposed by Dowd,  that Palin is attacking Obama's policies from afar, out of reach of the  opposition when, in fact, she's out there right now, in public, available for interviews and public debates, while Dowd is the actual sniper, shooting at Palin from that metaphorical helicopter.  In this case, the opinion page of the New York Times.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

nwahs:  " the article never

nwahs:  " the article never says a word about  anyone taking aerial shots at Obama."  Wrong. Please go back and read it. Dowd wrote:

 

"At the moment, what she wants to do is tap into her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey: cerebral Ivy League Democrats. Just as she was able to stir up the mob against Barack Obama on the trail, now she is fanning the flames against another Harvard smarty-pants — Dr. Zeke Emanuel."

In other words, Obama was the first cerebral Ivy League Democrat Palin "aerial shot" at and "now" she's going after  Emanuel.

Mark you know exactly what she was doing

She's making fun of Palin's "rugged" image, her administrations bounty on  wolves, and conservatives new found disdain for intelligence. There is nothing dark as assassination metaphors in it. You don't believe that but you are trying to make others believe that. Thats the intellectual dishonesty.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

It's about her "visceral talent."

"The article is about Palin taking shots at Zeke Emanuel."

The article is about Sarah's "visceral talent," at remaining out of range of her "favorite human pray" as Dowd has put it.  It's NOT about Sarah attacking Zeke Emanuel, he's just being used as an example. The truth is, Dowd is the one displaying HER visceral talent at attacking HER favorite human pray, Sarah Palin

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Talk about intellectual dishonesty.

Talk about intellectual dishonesty!  You're displaying quite a bit yourself.  Dowd is describing Palin as an aerial  sniper, trying to pick off the President's policies while, supposedly, staying above the fray (so to speak), which, of course , is totally dishonest (she's right there in the trenches, so to speak), but all YOU can focus on is the wolves! 

Why don't you focus on the actual topic at hand, that a member of the MSM is equating Sarah's display of public dissent as an act of warfare, all because the subject of that dissent is a Liberal. Care to have a intellectually HONEST debate about that? 

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really, nwahs?

So just because someone is an avid hunter, it's okay to evoke images of that in relation to the president?

Guess what else isn't explicitly mentioned by MoDo but still an important part of the context - lefty accusations that conservies want Obama dead. You think MoDo isn't aware of all the "tea baggers are shouting death threats" that the left is kicking around?

Once again the left makes public discourse even more intense, and your reply is to blame it on us. I mean hey, Rush Limbaugh is a jerk, so it's all good, right?

 

candance, I said above that

candance, I said above that I think Dowd was being metaphorical with her "shoot from the air" comment.  But it's still wrong, because unlike shooting prey from the air, without exposure, Palin is exposing herself to retaliation from the left.

I can't stand MoDo, (I  used to like her writing, but she has really lost her edge and  become petty and nasty) but I'm not willing to say her  comment indicates that she thinks Palin would literally like to shoot anyone.

motherbelt (& candance)

"but I'm not willing to say her comment indicates that she thinks Palin would literally like to shoot anyone."

MB, respectfully, you just don't conjure up something like that for an op-ed piece, regardless of how un-literal or metaphorical you're being and how much of a bad attempt you're making at being humorous. It adds fuel to the fire in the left's painting of evil, "killing" Republicans, and it's exactly what she wants to do. And her "playful" imagery is that of a Republican politician shooting a Democrat President and then someone in his cabinet.

That Palin does what Alaskans do -- hunt -- does not in any way put some kind of onus on her for when liberal lowlife "columnists" like Dowd write garbage like this.

 

→ If I may?

Since "shooting" and "lynching" produce the same result, Is it OK for MoDo to conjure either image?

One will get you just as dead as the other.  Could Palin also be caricaturized as the frontier woman hanging strips of meat in the smokehouse for jerkey?

What's the difference?

Am I being facetious?

Are there different variations of "dead"

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I would certainly hate to be

I would certainly hate to be put into the position of defending MoDo and her writings. She knew what she was writing and she did it so you could think what you want. Consider the source.

I'm not defending her writings

I'm stating a fact - there's no presidential ( there's the phrase again) assassination metaphor in the piece. There's an aerial wolf hunting metaphor in the piece, equating her attacks on Democrats like Alaskan hunters' aerial attacks on wolves. Taking it into some dark assassination metaphor is just being dishonest.

I'm not defending here writings. But I'm not going to stare at a pig and call it a cow. Thats stupid.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

I agree, shawn....but you

I agree, shawn....but you know that, from above.

Exactly

There's an aerial wolf hunting metaphor in the piece, equating her
attacks on Democrats like Alaskan hunters' aerial attacks on wolves
.

 Thank you.

talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey

Change Wolf to Human,  same as the pig to cow. BTW you havent stated any facts, just opinions, like the rest of us.

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No, I stated a fact

It contains NO presidential assassination metaphor, and if you examine all presidential assassinations and attempted assassinations, you'll see there is no assassination metaphor in the piece. Thats a fact, not an opinion. Those things  ( assassination) tend to be very dark, violent, and disturbed - certainly nothing one would compare to a sport or past time. The metaphor is wolf hunting/Democrat hunting - NOT presidential assassination/Democrat hunting and not wolf hunting/presidential assassination. The assassination thing is a LIE, and you have certainly corrupted yourself when you defend lies.

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What the heck are you talking about?

It contains NO presidential assassination metaphor,

Who other then you said it did?

Mark: " the article never says a word about  anyone taking aerial shots at Obama."

Even Mark suggested the same. MoDo did use the term "human pray", and I dont know anyone who uses the term "prey", unless they seek to destroy it. So if anyone is insincere here it is you. I suggested she meant "human prey" because she said it. Dont care if you like it or not, the only fact here is she used the term and the term suggest destoying a target.

Prey: an animal taken by a predator as food b : one that is helpless or unable to resist attack : victim <was prey to his own appetites>

BTW you can take your condensending remarks a shove em.

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Mark said it did.

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It contains NO presidential assassination metaphor,

Who other then you said it did?

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From the blog:

Nothing like a presidential assassination metaphor to spice up an otherwise insipid Sunday column . .

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Mark said it contained a presidential assassination metaphor. Its not condescension, its not opinion, its simple objective fact. The article being written about contains no presidential assassination metaphor and the blogger says it does. What would you call the statement in the blog- truth? Has truth got a new definition?

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

Oh well

Mark said it contained a presidential assassination metaphor. 

 I didnt, and I was replying to your post. I should had re-read the article, but I only looked at Mark's response.

MoDo still used the term "human prey" followed by names. And I still think it is very inappropriate.

her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey:

This leave a lot of room for suggestive thinking.Take it how you want, but I think her intention was to suggest Palin would like to aerial shoot her favorite human prey, "cerebral Ivy League Democrats". 

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I agree with you

This leave a lot of room for suggestive thinking.Take it how you want,
but I think her intention was to suggest Palin would like to aerial
shoot her favorite human prey, "cerebral Ivy League Democrats". 

It is suggestive, and if I thought for a second the author was incapable of catching the drift of the article, I would have worded my responses more along the line "I think you misunderstood." But Mark writes professionally about politics ( Oh forgive me - media covering politics), and he knows exactly what was going on.

In the past few days, I've affected a few times that right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter what party. I've said it was just as wrong for the right to invoke Nazi comparisons as it was for the left to invoke Nazi comparisons, and I've been called "sanctimonious" for doing so.

When did advocating honesty become a bad thing for conservatives, and when did adopting the dishonest practices of the left become a good thing for conservatives? Because from my viewpoint, all I see is conservatives starting to tolerate a little corruption. Someone posted "desperate times require desperate measures."

How desparate are we?

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→ Good question

How desparate are we?

I don't know about you, but I'm convinced our current course is a less than five year path to bankruptcy.

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They'll eat the seed corn, too.

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"I'm stating a fact -

"I'm stating a fact - there's no presidential ( there's the phrase
again) assassination metaphor in the piece. There's an aerial wolf
hunting metaphor in the piece, equating her attacks on Democrats like
Alaskan hunters' aerial attacks on wolves. Taking it into some dark
assassination metaphor is just being dishonest."

Now who is being intellectually dishonest? What would you be saying had Palin said it herself? What would the left wing media be saying? There's no doubt in my mind they would be claiming she wants to shoot the president.

The metaphor

The metaphor is the sport of wolf hunting/ the sport of Democrat hunting. Its nothing else. Its not the sport of wolf hunting/ the sport of president killing. Thats BS.

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"But I'm not going to stare

"But I'm not going to stare at a pig and call it a cow."

Well, nwahs. It depends on whether the pig is wearing lipstick or not.

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

And I've been a fan of both

True dat :)

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Hey nwahs. I'll bet you'd

Hey nwahs. I'll bet you'd like these. ;)

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

That would work

I've got a grill bigger than my laundry room. Now I have roots in Texas :)

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"wolves?" There must be a special on liberals getting labotomies

First you pointed out that Letterman didn't joke about Palin's 14 year old daughter and now "wolves?"  Oh my word, you must still be in kindy-garten.  What's next, polar bears? I know, let's rewrite Maureen's story for her some more. She really meant of how Palin ate a cheeseburger on the campaign trail, and that hurt PETA's feelings, which led to the recent Slaughter Meal (formerly known as Happy Meal) debate against McDonald's.  

You lost the debate then and you've already lost the debate with such a moronic invective.  And you're not even remotely intellectually honest, another overused liberal buzzphrase used when their emotion takes over any kind of logic.  I think the Brothers Grimm are looking for an heir apparent, interested? 

 

 

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Well at least you're reading :)

First you pointed out that Letterman didn't joke about Palin's 14 year old daughter and now "wolves?" 

Sooner or later some of its gonna rub off :) Yea, yea..look- there's a spot on you right there!

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Just for the record, I

Just for the record, I think she was using metaphor. I don't think she meant Palin literally wants to shoot Obama, though moonbat that Dowd is, and with a bad case of PDS to boot, I wouldn't put it past her.

Having said that, you're one of the last people  who should bring up intellectual dishonesty. Seriously, what's this "we" crap? You're not a Conservative, and everyone here knows it. I can see why you do it though....I'd be embarrassed to admit I was a flaming lib too. But you are, so let your freak flag fly. Why not, it's not like you're fooling anyone.

This chick is simply

This chick is simply nuts.

 

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The Obama administration has completely fallen apart.

The Obama administration has completely fallen apart.

 

This is all they can do to reply to their critics.  It makes Hillary's "Vast Right WIng Conspiricy" comment seem reasonable by comparsion.

Hypocrite, thy name is Dowd.

"At the moment, what she wants to do is tap into her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey: cerebral Ivy League Democrats."

Hypocrite, thy name is Dowd.  One again, you display your  visceral talent for attacking Sarah Palin while crouching behind the relative safety of the New York Times opinion page.

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Never Hot

I don't think she was ever hot. There's something about limousine liberal women, an attitude that makes them entirely unattractive. The bile that fills them shows on their face and it leaves a wake in their path. You don't dare open a door for them for fear they will rip your head off. You don't dare greet them with cheer for they might scold you for feeling optimistic in the middle of whatever crisis they are experiencing at that moment. Just stay away from them because they want everyone to be as miserable as they will always be.

Primus Motor

Misery motivates them.  As redistributionists, "equal misery for all" (Lady Thatcher knew the Left well) only seems fair and compels them to congregate with like-minded "miserables" (even the token Republicans at the NYT endorsed Obama, presumably to remain in-step with their colleagues).  There goes Sarah, attractive, talented and happy.  It just isn't fair...

The Obama campaign's use of Facebook was pure genius

Remember that one?

Yet there's something wrong with Sarah Palin using it?

These Liberal elitists should get off whatever it is they're taking.

According to them it's democracy in action whenever Democrats disrupt an event. But conservatives that do so are un-American evil mongers.

Obama uses Facebook = good. Palin uses Facebook = cyberstalking kids.

Conservative town hall protesters clothes = bad. Homeless ACORN; Union thug or Obama cultists clothes = good.

Fox News = bad. MSNBC = good.

What would Attila the Hun do?

If Attila the Hun were alive today even he would take a pass on Ms. Dowd, and I’ve read that he rarely discriminated when the urge presented itself. For him, a village was a village regardless of the quality of its ornaments. 

Every time I see that photo of Mo...

I get the feeling an "I'll get you my pretty, and your little boy too!" is about to come screeching from her lips.

I just can't understand anyone's obsession with anyone- and she's either deeply obsessed with Sarah Palin, or believes her readership is- though I suspect its both.

Dowd...

is dangerously close to becoming the ultimate caricature of elitist liberal print media. She is, by far, the leading candidate to assume the same lofty position that Keith Olbermann  now occupies on television. All she has left is outrage and insults. Why are liberals always so mad, even when they control everything?

 

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
 

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

Because.

the one thing they can not control is YOUR mind. They want to and try to desparately but the evidence is all around them that it will not succeed and that drives them nuts. That is why they want to control the airwaves, the media, the schools, the conversations when you see them on the tube. YOU are the biggest threat to them because you think for yourself. They believe if they can control all those other vehicles they will be able to control your thoughts and beliefs. It will NEVER happen as long as we are Free men and women. Generations have fought, died and gave their all for us to have that freedom but we are at a huge crossroad in America today. If we do not stop this here and now they will stop at nothing to control even your thoughts. They try to use fear, intimadation, thugs, names, labels but they are losing this war of ideas and words.

Marueen Dowd Is A Cartoon Character

And Paul Begala calls Sarah Palin half a whack job. Geez. Modo has been the standard for total whack jobs since she began her idiotic rants. But she's a "progressive," so her inanity is ignored by Begala et al on the left.

Begala? The human f'ing skull?

Begala is beyond a contemptible prick.  If he knew anything he'd be scarier than he looks.

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"We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains." -Li Po

Dowd is a

sick sick woman/lesbo/hard up slut? 

Am I being too strong or unkind?

TOO BAD!

 

All of the above - plus she is a GINGER

All of the above - plus she is a GINGER

→ MoDo

Hey MoDo!

David went up against Goliath with nothing but five stones and a sling.

He didn't need all five stones for Goliath.  I think he later took out all four of Goliath's brothers.

So while you're laughing at that little pea-shooter she's sportin'  you might want to put on a helmet.

Please God, let this not be the last time the mighty are brought down and exposed as fools at the hand of your servant, and ours, Sarah Palin.

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Thus proving how little Maureen Dowd knows

What an obviously stupid woman to be writing such drivel.  Maureen I think your vocational skills make you more suited to collect garbage.

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We weren't suppose to know

We weren't suppose to know about Ol' Doctor Zeke.  Thanks to Glenn Beck, we do...and thanks to Sarah Palin, more will.  :-)

Just like when that Army officer stood up and brought the birth certificate issue to the forefront.  That wasn't suppose to happen.  Even those on Fox News won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

You don't bring good intentions to a knife fight.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Like Shootin’ Moose In A

Good evening Mark

It was very gracious of you to post the photograph of Maureen from 1921. That was a good year for her.

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