rssDowd Gets No Love From McCain Camp
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 10:05 am
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What do the McCain campaign and the Bush administration have in common?
Neither one likes The New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd much. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz includes this little nugget in his piece today about the media circus surrounding Friday’s presidential debate:
Outside, on a summerlike evening, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs held forth for the likes of NBC’s Chuck Todd and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who was wearing an Elvis T-shirt. (The company may have been more pleasant than that of McCain aides, who have barred Dowd from the candidate’s plane….)
Those who follow such things may recall how Dowd complained about being denied White House press credentials in the early days of the Bush administration — though she was eventually credentialed. Is this an indication that a McCain administration may continue some of the more petty traditions of the current White House, including shunning disfavored journalists?
Perhaps — but you need not worry, Maureen. It’s not like being on the plane gets you any more access to the candidate than you would have, say, sitting at home watching television.
Quite the opposite.
8 Comments
Comment posted September 29, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Thanks for the tip. I just wonder why Dowd is being singled out. It's not like lots of other people aren't trashing Palin.
Comment posted September 29, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
I think Axelrod would be more accurate and fair than Maureen Dowd could be to McCain camp.
Comment posted September 30, 2008 @ 10:52 am
Just another indication of what the McCain/Palin ticket promises if elected………a continuation of the secrecy, vindictiveness and non-tolerance we've already experienced for the past 8 years of the Bu$h/Cheney administration. Wake up America!!!!!
Comment posted September 30, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I used to try to read Dowd's articles. I really, did. But I would have to give up on them half-way through because she writes like a friggin' Hollywood gossip columnist, only the “celebrities” are politicians. So, one day, I see she's going to be on George Stephanopoulis' Sunday morning show. Since I'd never seen her “in person” so- to-speak, I had to tune in – who is this woman? She sat there looking stoned (seriously!) and barely joined in the discussion. When she did have something to say, she spoke in a very simplistic manner that reminded me of characters in the movie “Dazed and Confused”. Needless to say, I don't even try to read her articles anymore.
Comment posted September 30, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Dowd is funny, clever and a partisan Obama apologist. Dowd goes to Alaska to find any bit of dirt she can dig up on Palin but ignores the mountain of trash in Chicago on Obama. We are treated to the lurid details of the pregnant teenage daughter of Palin but are somehow spared the ins and outs Obama's pal Tony Rezko and Obama's adventures as Chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.
Talk about audacity. Oy.
Comment posted October 5, 2008 @ 2:53 am
He should have removed her from the plane at 20,000 feet!
Comment posted October 13, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Sen McCain and Gov Palin more of the same as Pres Bush and VP Cheney.
Comment posted October 14, 2008 @ 3:01 am
Sen McCain and Gov Palin more of the same as Pres Bush and VP Cheney.
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