The country is a hot mess---and Maureen Dowd uses her column to write about undergarments.

[trumad]

unreal

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/opinion/sunday/dowd-the-tortured-mechanics-of-eroticism.html?hp&_r=0

[In_The_Wind]

1. It's called: Distract 'em with BS.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. It's par for the course with Dowd

After all, she rambled on about Al Gore's "earth tones" during the 2000 election, as if that had any significance in a presidential-- or any-- election.

[NoPasaran]

3. Not everything has to be about outrage

[trumad]

9. It's the NYT opinion editorial page---

valuable real estate for Journalism. Not the first time Dowd has waisted the space.

[NoPasaran]

10. Interesting freudian slip there, trumad.

[trumad]

11. Please explain.

[NoPasaran]

12. "Waisted" for "wasted"

While complaining about a column about corsets.

[byeya]

4. Dowd is a waste of space on several levels

[BainsBane]

5. If you read the column

You'll see it's about much more than undergarments.

You know she didn't write this last night. Firstly, it's date the 13th, so she probably turned it in on the 11th.

[Paladin]

6. That's what MoDo SHOULD be writing about, 24/7.

She lost all credibility as a political commentator, long ago.

[Orrex]

7. absofuckinglutely.

Her work is garbage, and she used her column to campaign against both Gore and Kerry.

She's been crap for about 15 years, but her stuff is still cited here frequenly as if it were relevant or insightful.

[Paladin]

8. MoDo has attained Peggy Noonan status, as far as I'm concerned.

I can't think of a worse insult for someone with pretenses towards journalism.....