Maureen Dowd: It Was a Social Experiment! Maureen Dowd is a columnist for the New York Times who is well known for her obsession with Bill Clinton. To be more precise, a certain part of Bill Clinton's anatomy. In the 2000 presidential election, she spent a lot of time making fun of Al Gore for the way he dressed. To keep it short, her worldview can be summarized like this:
Republicans are manly men and Democrats are sissies.
As you may know, the Democratic primary has caused
a lot of sexism in the media, and many people
are objecting to it. So now, even the New York Times, in the person of their public editor Clark Hoyt,
is wondering if they could have handled things differently. The answer, of course, is...
(the rest of what they said, of course, like the cackle, the pantsuit references, etc... was found to be perfectly OK).
Kristol, it turns out, was only a sexist pig on Fox News, so the New York Times could wash their hands off him. Dowd was another matter, and her case they had to come up with a more sophisticated defense. And, wait for it...
Bob Somerby, from the Daily Howler,
calls bullshit (scroll down to "The Loathing that Dares Not Speak Its Name"):
Can someone explain to me why being Irish Catholic makes you lust after Bill Clinton in an unhealthy way?