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Sarah Palin and Maureen Dowd trade insults
Tea Party queen bee hits back at columnist Dowd - ‘or whatever the heck her name is’
Washington is being treated to a delicious bitch-fight between Sarah Palin and the auburn-haired News York Times oped writer Maureen Dowd.
Asked by a Fox TV reporter for her comment on a recent Dowd piece, Palin responded: "That's so funny, because I don't think I've ever met that gal, Maureen Dowd - O'Dowd - whatever the heck her name is."
A Pultizer Prize winner and one of the best-known political commentators in the country - whatever Palin might like to pretend - Dowd had used her Times column on Saturday to attack female Tea Party candidates and their "Queen Bee Sarah", accusing them of "ratcheting up disgust with the status quo".
Dowd wrote: "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 rumours that you were pregnant."
In her dismissal of the journalist, Palin told Fox that "liberty-loving Americans" should "just keep smiling" and that Dowd and the rest of the mainstream media were "all wee-weed up" about "the wonderful, pleasant, gracious, nice, hard-working mama grizzlies who are wanting to turn this country around".
How do you respond to that? Dowd was back yesterday with a column headed 'Making Ignorance Chic' in which she discussed Palin's struggles to name Supreme Court cases, remember what newspapers she's read or recall which founding fathers she admires.
Dowd used the recent publication of Fragments, a book of Marilyn Monroe's poems, letters and other musings, as an excuse to contrast the "dumb blonde" of 1950s cinema with the pin-up of current right-wing Republicans.
At least Marilyn, she wrote, "had a firm grasp on one thing: It was cool to be smart. She aspired to read good books and be friends with intellectuals, even going so far as to marry one [playwright Arthur Miller].
"But now another famous beauty with glowing skin and a powerful current, Sarah Palin, has made ignorance fashionable."
Over to you, Sarah... ·
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Duh - can't people read? The article says "auburn-haired". Looks like henna to me. Quoth the raven: "nevermore".
Looks like Sarah Palin has succeeded in making ignorance fashionable.
The obsession with the dimwitted Sarah Palin is what I use to demonstrate to my friends overseas the large moronic majority existing in the US.We may well end up with her as president in the not to distant future, and quite well deserved it would be too. Imagine discussing her in the same breath as Maureen Dowd! Only in America!
Moron Dowd or what ever, she ugly.
Dowd is not raven-haired - but a red-head (maybe the writer should look at the accompanying photo.
It was O'Donnel who could not name a Supreme Court case she disagreed with.
"that gal, Maureen Dowd - O'Dowd - whatever the heck her name is"
I suppose Palin is not informed enough to be hinting that 'Dowd' could really be 'Daud' - i.e., a Muslim terrorist? But with a name like Palin (Palinski? Stalin? - whatever the heck her name really is) perhaps SP could be another Russian pin-up sleeper dedicated to overthrowing the USA from within by sheer stupidity. After all, she bragged that she could see Russia from her window - perhaps this was letting slip a subliminal nostalgic longing for home.
Dowdy Maureen vs. Sensational Sarah? No contest.