Mo Dowd channels Kerry's advisors regarding Gore.

What advisors MO? What's their names? When did you talk to them? Prove to me MO that you talked to them. Was it by phone or in person? You're a liar MO! You make shit up just to stay in with the Kool Kids who love to bash Gore. I guarantee Bob Somerby will pen a Howler kicking your sorry stupid insignifacant ass over this shit hit piece. Somerby's got your number you insipid Twit! And you have the nerve to call Al Gore "supercilious/smarmy"? You fucking first class Media Whore!

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John Kerry's advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Mr. Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don't want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party.

They would like Mr. Gore, who brought bad karma to Mr. Dean with his primary endorsement, to zip it and go away. But more and more Democrats think it is Mr. Kerry who should zip it and go away.

Mr. Kerry has made a huge $25 million ad buy in recent weeks, believing that the better voters know him, the more they'll like him. But many Democrats fear he's one of those supercilious/smarmy candidates (like Al Gore) for whom the opposite is true: the more you know him, the less you want to see him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/opinion/27DOWD.html?hp

She is one sickening person.

I send her those all the time and she is still writing shite. She is too busy spending all of the millions she earns being an idiot to care what the readers think.

She did a real put-down on Gore and MoveOn. She did NOT correct the other guy who called it a Dean moment. I was livid.

on Cable television. It's a strategy for sure.

Oh Jesus fucking Christ. That is the media in a nutshell. They have a famous picture so they compare it to another famous picture. It makes it all so easy for everybody to understand.

Everything is like everything else if you have a picture.

Hell, we have Elizabeth Smart part deux here in Oregon, guess why? She's a blond Mormon, disapeared without a trace, and bingo-videos of her blond self smiling and laughing.

Gore did not look like Dean or say anything in relation to that Dean "moment."

The media are lazy assholes, nothing more. They can't find a metaphor or an original analyis if there isn't a camera to show it to them.

Thank God for digital cameras in Iraq. Abu Gharib=My lai. See I can be a "journalist" too.

They all read what each other is saying and use it in their piece... Somerby exposes this like no other....

is the party invitation and name dropping it entails.

Her lame attempts at coming up with clever puns and metaphors are only made worse by the rest of the column that she uses to stretch them out. Like a bad comedy skit built around one funny joke but which goes on for 10 more painful minutes.

Old habits die hard. Apparently, the critical-mass meltdown of the Maladministration makes for a slow news week for Maureen. How about some earth-tones? The "Oxford-cloth" bit is vintage media whore, but overall a weak and unfocused column from this pre-eminent whore's whore.

He turned her down and that is why she attacks him now.