Thursday, November 06, 2008

Maureen Dowd looks at the sweep of History

MoDo's regular Wednesday column didn't appear online when it usually does. I couldn't help but wonder if she finally turned in a piece that was so kooky even her more-than-indulgent editors wouldn't run it.

But she's baa-aack, with an online column dated Wednesday, 11/05/08: Bring on the Puppy and the Rookie New York Times. She is praising Obama in this one, though she seems more interested in what new puppy he's going to get his daughters. And she tries to put things in a broad historical perspective with references to Lincoln and so forth. But here's how MoDo envisions the grand sweep of History:

How could the White House be classy when the Clintons were turning it into Motel 1600 for fund-raising, when Bill Clinton was using it for trysts with an intern and when he plunked a seven-seat hot tub with two Moto-Massager jets on the lawn?
The media pod people are never going to give it up, are they? They are going to be babbling about the Vile Clintons for as long as they can draw a breath to babble.

Oh, and that mysterious hot tub reference was so obscure even Bob Somerby had to look it up!

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1 comment:

Mo MoDo said...

I'm impressed. I skimmed right over the hot tub reference. The mental image of a doughy topless Bill Clinton relaxing to the massager cycle with a glass of wine in his hand was too much for my brain to process.