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Brooks and Dowd debate Michelle’s biceps
Balloon Juice —
I wish I could tell you I was kidding about this one:
David Brooks and I were sharing a cab to the British Embassy the other day to meet with Gordon Brown. [....] Let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps. Her husband urges bold action, but it is Michelle who looks as though she could easily wind up and punch out Rush Limbaugh, Bernie Madoff and all the corporate creeps who ripped off America. In the taxi, when I asked David Brooks about her ...
Dear Maureen Dowd,
Rising Hegemon —
Thanks for being a couple weeks behind on the really frivolous bullshit stories. Journalists are never supposed to start a piece with a scene in a taxi because it signals either laziness about gathering facts or a tendency to embroider facts. Nonetheless, I’m going to. David Brooks and I were sharing a cab... Two and a half sentences, about 50 words in...it's both lazy and embroidered. Besides Maureen, you both know all you and Brooks did is talk about John Tierney being a dick.
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Maureen Dowd: Let's talk about Michelle's arms. Why? Because I'm Maureen Dowd. And my excuse is I'm only defending her right to show them off. ...
Read These Now Before Jupiter Eats You
Shakesville —
... David Brooks in a taxi with Maureen Dowd: "Sometimes I think half the reason Obama ran for president is so Michelle would have a platform to show off her biceps." ...
Maureen Dowd hearts Michelle. David Brooks not so much.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
David Brooks comes across as a catty bitch in Maureen Dowd's column today. She, on the other hand, captures the essence of our First Lady. People in DC love her (not the smarty-pants pundit types, the real people -- and yes, there are real people in DC): ...
Let's Make Poverty Less Enticing
Jon Swift —
The other day a shocking picture emerged when Michelle Obama went to a soup kitchen in Washington, DC. It wasn't a picture of her bulging biceps, which were mercifully covered, so David Brooks can rest easy and not have to worry about any more nightmares where the First Lady challenges him to arm wrestle. What was shocking was a photo of one of the homeless men she was serving taking a picture of her with his cellphone. Conservatives were outraged. At a time when Wall Street executives are being forced to give up their private planes, limousines, bathroom renovations and multimillion dollar bonuses, the idea that a homeless man has ...
Damned Media
N/A —
Maureen Dowd always writes about the really important stuff. Like Michelle Obama and her views on the Second Amendment. Or on her right to bare arms. Or something.
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... about the content of the Maureen Dowd's Sunday column. The column is up now, and I got a few details right, but Dowd went much deeper than I predicted into the shallowest presidential stories, focusing on every little mini-gaffe and trivial awkwardness in the Obama White House's interactions with Great Britain. (Dowd, shockingly, ignored a few less-than-smooth Hillary Clinton moments from the past week. I have to assume she's saving them for another column.) ...
They're just arms
Political Animal —
THEY'RE JUST ARMS.... Maureen Dowd wrote over 400 words today about First Lady Michelle Obama's arms. Seriously. Let's face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama's sculpted biceps. Her husband urges bold action, but it is Michelle who looks as though she could easily wind up and punch out Rush Limbaugh, Bernie Madoff and all the corporate creeps who ripped off America. In the taxi, when I asked David Brooks about her amazing arms, he indicated it was time for her to cover up. "She's made her point," he said. "Now she should ...
The Arms Race
David E's Fablog —
... , it was only a matter of time before MoDo weighed in. However what’s most interesting about her latest NYT blurt is the way it suddenly changes course, where she usually “moves in for the kill” (or rather what she imagines to be “the kill.”) Let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps. Her husband urges bold action, but it is Michelle who looks as though she could easily wind up and punch out Rush Limbaugh, Bernie Madoff and all the corporate creeps who ripped off America. In the taxi, ...
If Joan Rivers Had a Spot on the New York Times Op-Ed Page... She'd Be Maureen Dowd
Politics Daily —
... Oh wait, strike that last one. Checking our notes, it appears that last one is actually named Maureen Dowd, although you'll admit her column today about Michelle Obama's biceps made it pretty easy to confuse the two. ...
Fatuity, Thy Name Is Maureen
JustOneMinute —
Maureen Dowd, evidently worried that she has not yet retired the Gold Medal for fatuity, goes on and on about Michelle Obama's arms. A snip:: Let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps. Her husband urges bold action, but it is Michelle who looks as though she could easily wind up and punch out Rush Limbaugh, Bernie Madoff and all the corporate creeps who ripped off America. In the taxi, when I asked David Brooks about her amazing arms, he indicated it was time for her to cover up. “She’s made her point,” he said. “Now she should put away Thunder and Lightning.” Jiminy. Let me help ...
On Int'l Women's Day, Maureen Dowd Writes About Michelle Obama's Bare Arms
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
Maureen Dowd -- the New York Times embarrassment who once had the nerve to write: "Hillary is not a feminist" -- celebrated International Women's Day this year by writing yet another frivolous and useless column. And while Hillary Rodham Clinton was calling for full equality for women on International Women's Day, Maureen Dowd was opining on the important subject of Michelle Obama's bare arms. Maureen did manage to get a snide remark about Hillary into this week's total waste of New York Times column space. Is this ...
Bonnie Fuller: Why Wimpy David Brooks Insults Michelle Obama's Biceps!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That can be the only explanation for Republican lite David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, to tell his fellow Times columnist Maureen Dowd that Michelle Obama should put away her arms, "Thunder and Lightning." Thunder and lightning? Has he actually named the biceps that offend him? ...
Bonnie Fuller: Why Wimpy David Brooks Insulted Michelle Obama's Biceps!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That can be the only explanation for Republican lite David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, to tell his fellow Times columnist Maureen Dowd that Michelle Obama should put away her arms, "Thunder and Lightning." Thunder and lightning? Has he actually named the biceps that offend him? ...
If Sleeveless Is the Newest Culture War, Enlist Me on Michelle Obama's Side
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... I was just starting to listen to you after an election season of intense annoyance, but now you have set back that cautious détente, perhaps irrevocably. Of course, what I'm referring to is that conservative commentator David Brooks has criticized the First Lady's bare arms, displayed in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress -- and a chorus of conservatives have chimed in with disapprobation of their own. It was Brooks' New York Times colleague, Maureen Dowd, who fired up the controversy by quoting Brooks as saying, “[Michelle]’s made her point. Now she should put away ...
Keli Goff: Michelle Obama: Wonder Woman
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
As if there hasn't been enough written about Michelle Obama's arms please allow me to be the one-millionth writer, blogger, journalist, pundit to weigh in with an opinion (like just about every florist, dentist, minister, accountant and any other human being living in America, including my mom.)
One of the things that has struck me most about the
coverage of "Sleevegate" is how no one seems to have really delved into what I consider to be the fashion elephant in the room in any discussion of Michelle Obama's wardrobe choices: namely that she's not only tall ...
Who Is The New York Times Trying To Kid?
Daily Kos —
... have deemed these developments so. While there has always been a hearty appetite for stories — and trivia — about the people in a new administration, today’s White House press corps (competing for up-to-the-second news) has elevated the most banal doings to a coveted “get.” I'll have to double check, but I'm pretty sure that it was the New York Times that carried a story about Obama's hair, about Michelle Obama's arms, and about Sasha and Malia's bedtime. And I must have missed the clarion call ...
Home Alone
Whiskey Fire —
... Dowd has been struggling to find her stride with Obama. The situation is so serious, and he himself taking it so seriously, that her particular brand of dismissive Freudian snark is having a hard time finding a hook. (She even had to impute the fear of Michelle Obama's mighty biceps to her weasely colleague Bobo, who no doubt has to check his penis several times a day to make sure it's still attached. At least, I assume that's why he's playing pocket pool.) She's tried ...
