NY Times Maureen Dowd Indulges Freudianally, But Loves Stereotypes Even More
Posted by admin - 27/01/10 at 07:01 pmDowd seemingly loves stereotypes, hypocrisy, and playing right into the worse kind of media “false balance” creation. Here is an example where Dowd chastises Republican “caricatures” of Hillary Clinton (mean, and unfair ones, too) and then later engages in similar caricatures herself, in the exact same column:
Notice the irony:
The Alaskan [Palin] who shot to stardom a year ago as the tough embodiment of Diana the Huntress has now stepped down as governor and morphed into what theRepublicans always caricatured Hillary as—preachy, screechy and angry.We’ll ignore Maureen Dowd’s dopey Diana characterization, and focus on this: “morphed into what the Republicans always caricatured Hillary as—preachy, screechy and angry.”
[That is, she writes] “What the Republicans caricaturized Hillary as – preachy, screechy, and angry.”
Yet here is Dowd, in the very same column in which she later notes this fact, writing: “Hillary, who so often… came across as aggrieved, paranoid and press-loathing.” [That is, herself essentially at one time calling Clinton "aggrieved," "paranoid," and "press-loathing."]
Yesterday, in addition to more of the same, Dowd also wasted her column fantasizing about the leadership implications of how Scott Brown is “always game for a game of pickup basketball.” By that standard, Dowd should probably be fantasizing about us here at the Donkasaurus Post, even more than Scott Brown. But alas (thankfully) we fall short of the perfect leader/Dowd masturbation bank material because we don’t see the point in drinking pepsi, which Dowd seems to later add to her faux leader fantasy wish list.
Seemingly missed by the aforelinked piece (and others), Dowd’s piece was apparently, satire. But apart from a bad job of trying to mock people’s excessive faith in a “leader,” as opposed to everything else that matters more, or just mocking overhyped faith in Obama’s power, or perhaps an even worse job of mocking Brown’s overblown importance, it didn’t really satirize much at all. Yet Dowd did, once again, quite often non satirically, play into more misleading stereotypes than a good column should in a year.
And it seems that in addition to “satire” there was more than a little Freudian fantasizing going on. But not much, as per usual, of substance.
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