I'm no fan of Dowd but I thought it odd how out of her whole screed that was the one detail you found noticeable. I'm not sure what religion you belong to but I can't think of many where the groom wears a white robe during the marriage ceremony (unlike the priest or the altar boys) which was of course the obvious oddity she was illuminating.
"I'm not sure what religion you belong to but I can't think of many where the groom wears a white robe during the marriage ceremony (unlike the priest"
The groom in a Mormon temple wedding *is* a priest.
It's a pity. One has the sense that Dowd is more than intelligent enough to be far better than this, if she just had enough moral character and humility.
Maureen Dowd is why we invented the term "tool bag" as an insult. Only in a wheezing degenerate republic can an old skank like Dowd get by with glib coquettish drivel.
It does show how retrograde and antiquated things have become in the cult. The aging hipsters that make up the left wing "vanguard" stopped being clever somewhere in 1972. Now they look like old vaudevillians struggling with the new talking movies.
It's just anti-religious drivel ... but it isn't even clever. Any one of the 19 year old writers of the Onion could have done a much better riff on this.
Her pointless and hateful column ends with a rant about some things that Romney's ancestors did that she presumably intended us to feel uncomfortable with. Wasn't the whole point of our breaking off from Britain that we wanted a country where it did not matter who one's ancestors were?
I think people like Maureen Dowd have trouble understanding that a lot the people she smugly thinks are creepy weirdos, who should be isolated, catalogued, and made fun of, think that SHE is a creepy weirdo who should be isolated, catalogued and made fun of.
She insipidly thinks her personal sample of small minded parochial views naturally reflects the views of the changing pluralistic population. She can't imagine herself going out of style or her views being deemed irrelevant, anachronistic, or just irritatingly, shrill, and off kilter.
She believes that the universe has somehow evolved her into a state of useful and preeminent superiority and intuitive correctness. She assumes that now that she's there, as the cosmos intended all along, nothing will ever change.
She is a portrait of hubris and narcissism transformed into a perfect static vacuole. I suspect her article writing could be easily simulated by a source file of rarely used negative sounding nouns and adjectives and an input to denote the subject subject she appears to be commenting on. Her column could be replaced by an algorithm and a bit of post production tweaking in the editor's desk, and we would probably never know.
The worst thing I can say about the column is it's disjointed -- with the bottom half forgetting the top as it meanders into a discussion about Romney's religious background. But I'm baffled how anyone could read it as an attack on Mormonism. It's very detailed, but the tone is entirely neutral throughout, and the details are undeniably interesting.
You know, it is possible for a person of average intelligence to learn and be curious that the potential next POTUS had bigamist ancestors without getting confused and thinking Romney is a bigamist himself. Or should all this stuff be off limits to the public just because you think it's weird?
I'm no fan of Dowd but I thought it odd how out of her whole screed that was the one detail you found noticeable. I'm not sure what religion you belong to but I can't think of many where the groom wears a white robe during the marriage ceremony (unlike the priest or the altar boys) which was of course the obvious oddity she was illuminating.
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I took it as it's a religious ceremony, and what's it to Dowd?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"I'm not sure what religion you belong to but I can't think of many where the groom wears a white robe during the marriage ceremony (unlike the priest"
The groom in a Mormon temple wedding *is* a priest.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAll too typical Dowdian jejune sneer/smear.
It's a pity. One has the sense that Dowd is more than intelligent enough to be far better than this, if she just had enough moral character and humility.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaureen Dowd is why we invented the term "tool bag" as an insult. Only in a wheezing degenerate republic can an old skank like Dowd get by with glib coquettish drivel.
It does show how retrograde and antiquated things have become in the cult. The aging hipsters that make up the left wing "vanguard" stopped being clever somewhere in 1972. Now they look like old vaudevillians struggling with the new talking movies.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's just anti-religious drivel ... but it isn't even clever. Any one of the 19 year old writers of the Onion could have done a much better riff on this.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNR readers: read the Dowd column. Cogent though these comments be, the column is bad beyond description. But short.
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Her pointless and hateful column ends with a rant about some things that Romney's ancestors did that she presumably intended us to feel uncomfortable with. Wasn't the whole point of our breaking off from Britain that we wanted a country where it did not matter who one's ancestors were?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think people like Maureen Dowd have trouble understanding that a lot the people she smugly thinks are creepy weirdos, who should be isolated, catalogued, and made fun of, think that SHE is a creepy weirdo who should be isolated, catalogued and made fun of.
She insipidly thinks her personal sample of small minded parochial views naturally reflects the views of the changing pluralistic population. She can't imagine herself going out of style or her views being deemed irrelevant, anachronistic, or just irritatingly, shrill, and off kilter.
She believes that the universe has somehow evolved her into a state of useful and preeminent superiority and intuitive correctness. She assumes that now that she's there, as the cosmos intended all along, nothing will ever change.
She is a portrait of hubris and narcissism transformed into a perfect static vacuole. I suspect her article writing could be easily simulated by a source file of rarely used negative sounding nouns and adjectives and an input to denote the subject subject she appears to be commenting on. Her column could be replaced by an algorithm and a bit of post production tweaking in the editor's desk, and we would probably never know.
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Maureen Dowd is still big! It is the op-eds that got small.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe worst thing I can say about the column is it's disjointed -- with the bottom half forgetting the top as it meanders into a discussion about Romney's religious background. But I'm baffled how anyone could read it as an attack on Mormonism. It's very detailed, but the tone is entirely neutral throughout, and the details are undeniably interesting.
You know, it is possible for a person of average intelligence to learn and be curious that the potential next POTUS had bigamist ancestors without getting confused and thinking Romney is a bigamist himself. Or should all this stuff be off limits to the public just because you think it's weird?
#nytimesderangementsyndrome
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