Correspondence
Correspondence BOTHERSOME BUSH NOEMIE EMERY GETS IT JUST RIGHT in "Why He Drives Them Crazy" (Oct. 14). When asked how he could stand constant criticism from the leftist press, Ronald Reagan,...
...The Democratic party would probably like the public to believe that Bonior is a freak on the fringes of the party, but Bonior's ten years as the No...
...However, up until January of this year, David Bonior was one of the chief spokesmen for the Democratic party...
...Dowd won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for doing the best job of articulating the Democratic party's main talking points during the Clinton impeachment...
...i do penance by reading her, and sometimes i even break out of my ignorance sufficiently to understand the fancy words and recognize the names that she, a smart college girl, uses...
...When asked how he could stand constant criticism from the leftist press, Ronald Reagan, reflecting his professional origins in show business, is said to have replied: "Well, there's reviews and there's box office...
...2 Democratic leader in the House suggest that he stands squarely in the mainstream of his party...
...This is Dowd's real formula, by the way, to criticize Democrats lightly and blame Republicans for the real problems...
...specifically, although what Clinton did was "inappropriate," the real villains were the Republicans who tried to do something about his corruption of the legal system...
...Dowd's New York Times columns were never any fun...
...For the sake of the United States, let's hope the confusion continues...
...Fortunately, President Bush understands this and seems to enjoy tweaking those who underestimate him, as Ronald Reagan did before him...
...When he spoke of "evildoers," supposed intellectuals were perplexed: Wasn't this a primitive response...
...The fact that most Americans now consider Kenneth starr, an admirable man and a dedicated public servant, to be a "sex addict" is proof of how successful Dowd and those like her have been at framing the debate and writing history...
...Maureen offers the means, twice a week in her columns, for me and my ilk to practice mortification...
...STAN WATSON Winchester, VA...
...They do not speak for their party...
...it feels lousy but i know it's what i need...
...Dowd epitomizes the inherent dishonesty of liberal journalists...
...JOHN P. IVERS New York, NY JOSH CHAFETZ IS ALL WRONG about Maureen Dowd...
...CURT ALLEN Mandeville, LA TELL IT LIKE IT IS DAVID TELL'S TREATMENT of the Democrats' McDermott/Bonior problem in "Not so innocents Abroad" is overly generous (oct...
...Like Reagan, Bush recognizes the difference between approval from the "intellectual" classes and popular support...
...It normally takes two paragraphs, kind of like the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop...
...There is no reason Republicans should let Democrats off the hook by allowing them to cast Bonior and McDermott as freaks...
...These are often what passes for intellectual references at the New York Times, but i suppose Frank Rich can be excused because, after all, he is really a drama critic masquerading as an op-ed columnist...
...Didn't we need to understand what we had done to create terrorists...
...As such, he was (according to tradition) positioned to be the next Democratic leader of the House...
...THE WEEKLY STANDARD's readers should try applying this additional Immutable Law of Dowd...
...When President Bush invoked God, academics and artists snickered: Hadn't God finally died in the 1960s...
...Had he not decided to run (unsuccessfully) for governor of Michigan, Bonior would most likely still be the House Democratic Whip today...
...LAWRENCE H. O'NEILL New York, NY I ENJOYED JOSH CHAFETZ'S "The Immutable Laws of Maureen Dowd...
...Maureen knows that people like me who are wrong about almost everything, never satisfying the standards of the New York Times for thinking right, need to atone for our sins...
...As the Democratic whip in the House of Representatives, he was chosen by his fellow partisans to hold a position of leadership second only to Dick Gephardt among House Democrats...
...However, I do take exception to Chafetz's introduction...
...They have lived in the intellectually incestuous hothouses of academia so long, patterning their thinking on the editorials of the New York Times, that political and cultural views other than their own are now beyond their comprehension...
...A GAME I LIKE TO PLAY when reading Maureen Dowd (it presumably works with Frank Rich as well) is to see how far into her column she gets before referring to a popular TV show, movie, or commercial, like Everybody Loves Raymond, Sex and the City, or as in one of the columns Josh Chafetz cites, Heathers ("The immutable Laws of Dowd," oct...
...The so-called intellectual classes are so estranged from mainstream American culture that it is simply beyond them to understand the popularity of a Reagan or a Bush...
...RANDY HADDOCK Culver City, CA DOWD AND OUT IN D.C...
...Tell ends his editorial by conceding that "David Bonior and Jim McDermott are freaks...
...Having celebrated their superiority, these intellectuals are now a thoroughly confused and befuddled lot...
Vol. 8 • October 2002 • No. 7
