If you want to know why the rise of Donald Trump (or someone like him) was all-but-inevitable, this Maureen Dowd piece about how Maureen Dowd was so very, very chummy with George H. W. Bush provides several clues. On the surface its a lighthearted memoir about how a Republican President and a New York Times reporter were fond of each other and stayed in touch even after Bush41 was out of office. But what it’s really about is how both came out of a stratified eastern coastal elite where everyone’s brother knew someone else’s cousin at Yale or Harvard, and everyone knew their place.
And, being a Maureen Dowd piece, it’s mostly about Maureen Dowd.
Note how Dowd’s memoir is filled with praise for the same Bush patrician qualities the media so savagely attacked when actual elections were on the line. “The most polite man who ever lived” of Dowd’s gauzy memories is the one the media dubbed “wimp” and “waffle” back before he was safely out of office.
There’s really only one quality our Democrat Media Complex really respects in any Republicans: Being a gracious loser.
Tags: Bush41, George H. W. Bush, Maureen Dowd, Media Watch, New York Times, Republicans
So Maureen`s assistant, Ashley Parker, blew off Maureen`s instructions and sent “somecheap drugstore hand warmers that you put inside gloves”? What is surprising is not that a NYT reporter would have an assistant or that she could pull such a stunt and stay employed but that Maureen would show her true character by using this anecdote. It is no wonder that HW humored her all those years; and Maureen still doesn’t get it.
“There’s really only one quality our Democrat Media Complex really respects in any Republicans: Being a gracious loser. ”
But they only respect it once the republican is dead. Before that, not so much.