Maureen Dowd: Trump's 'Blood' Remark Wasn't About Megyn Kelly Menstruating

[DonViejo]

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in her Sunday column that she doesn't think Republican presidential front-runner was referring to Fox News host Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle when he said she had "blood coming out of her wherever."

Dowd's column was based on an interview she had with him recently at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist described Trump as trying to be more diplomatic since his attacks against the star Fox host who moderated the first GOP debate.

I’m trying to tell the freshly minted pol that Megyn Kelly had the right to ask him a question in the debate on how he talks about women, and that she should be tough on the front-runner.

He’s not buying it. In fact, in his stubborn “I win, you lose” way, he has an assistant come over to hand me a printout of Gabriel Sherman’s New York magazine piece headlined “How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News’ Audience, Over Megyn Kelly.”

But the 69-year-old is trying hard not to bare his claws at any women right now. His wife, Melania, and his daughter Ivanka have told him they don’t want him to come across as a misogynist when they don’t see him that way.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/maureen-dowd-trump-megyn-kelly-period

[Orsino]

1. So Dowd now believes Trump's press releases?

God, what a waste of pixels her column is.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Well, there is this:

How do you get a quote from Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal for a column you want to write about her? It helps if you're good friends with her husband—and it helps even more if you show him your column in advance to assure Pascal that the coverage is positive.

That New York Times op-ed columnists kiss their sources' asses and promise positive coverage seems so obvious as to be a given. But it's always nice to get a look behind the butcher counter. According to emails leaked from Sony servers, first reported by BuzzFeed, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd appears to have allowed Pascal's husband Bernie Weinraub—a former Times writer himself—to read an advance advance copy of her column—which centered on Sony Pictures, and co-chair Amy Pascal.

http://gawker.com/sony-leak-how-your-new-york-times-fluff-piece-sausage-1670271608

[Mike Nelson]

2. I didn't take it that way, either...

...but Ms. Dowd gives me pause. Her snarling grossness makes me recoil.

[realFedUp]

3. MoDo needs a better therapist.

There is no question to women he meant "on the rag."

[randome]

5. Sure, let's all keep talking about Kelley's menstrual cycle.

Good God, it's as if Trump is the key that unlocks all their ignorance! He is the Anti-GOP.
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[gratuitous]

6. MoDo into the Colorado consumables again?

I didn't know she could read people's minds, but I've known some folks in an altered state (shall we delicately say) who have claimed extrasensory powers.

[Starry Messenger]

7. Fifth column women. The worst.