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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Wednesday, and the weather sucks in the northeast. Here's a winter mix of the pundits. Maureen Dowd: And believe me, she talks a whole lot better than the former junior senator from New York, Al D’Amato, who once wailed that he was "up to my earballs" in some mess, and another time complained to me that those "little Jappies" bring over boats full of cars and then take the boats back empty. Ich bin ein, you know, New Yorker. Tom Friedman: That is, Gaza is a ...
=Breaking News= There's actually someone about whom Maureen Dowd feels no need to snark
Brilliant at Breakfast —
And it's Caroline Kennedy: found it bizarre that when Caroline offered to use her magic capital — and friendship with Barack Obama — to help take care of New York in this time of economic distress, she was blasted by a howl of “How dare she?” People are suddenly awfully choosy about who gets to go to the former home of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli. Although Americans still have enough British in their genes to be drawn to dynasties, W. has no doubt soured the country on scions. And the camps of the other two New York ...
Mirror, Mirror
Whiskey Fire —
... I am not narcissistic enough to believe that me, or anyone like me, ought to be running the country. Would that MoDo had such restraint. ...
The Dowd endorsement
Ben Smith's Blog —
Not a small one for Caroline. MoDo writes:
...I found it bizarre that when Caroline offered to use her magic capital — and friendship with Barack Obama — to help take care of New York in this time of economic distress, she was blasted by a howl of “How dare she?”
People are suddenly awfully choosy about who gets to go to the former home of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli.
And:
I know Caroline Kennedy. She’s smart, cultivated, serious and unpretentious. The Senate, shamefully sparse on profiles in ...
Caroline Appointment: Mitchell Mimics Maureen in Mocking Al D'Amato
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Does Maureen Dowd moonlight at MSNBC as Andrea Mitchell's [file photo] writer? Here's how for, purposes of defending Caroline Kennedy in her NYT column today, Dowd mocked former New York Republican Senator Al D'Amato [emphasis added]: ...
Scritti Politti: January 7, 2007
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Caroline, or Change: Maureen Dowd defends Caroline Kennedy, opining: "People are suddenly awfully choosy about who gets to go to the former home of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli." Yes, yes, Maureen. Naturally, the Senate isn't exactly packed with sage geniuses. Nevertheless, one needs to remember that "choosy people" did, in fact, make "Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli" their choices, which is sort of the bone of contention, here. ...
Scritti Politti: January 7, 2007
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Caroline, or Change: Maureen Dowd defends Caroline Kennedy, opining: "People are suddenly awfully choosy about who gets to go to the former home of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli." Yes, yes, Maureen. Naturally, the Senate isn't exactly packed with sage geniuses. Nevertheless, one needs to remember that "choosy people" did, in fact, make "Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli" their choices, which is sort of the bone of contention, here. ...
Caroline: A Taxonomy of Blame
TPM Election Central —
... he not have seen that this was not the right niece for the job? Second, Caroline Schlossberg herself should have asked herself whether this was really the right job for her. Can someone so preternatually press averse plunge into electoral politics in the toughest of arenas? A reporter from a New York paper and I joked, shortly after her name was floated, about the kinds of questions the Gotham press corps would have no trouble shouting: "Do you want to reopen the Warren Commission?" Maureen Dowd had a point that Caroline was no worse qualified than the other 99 chuckleheads. ...
