strangled his best choice, you mean your entitled drinking buddy? This women does not care about anything but her losing a source of information and topics for her vapid and increasingly meaningless opinion pieces. Just another reason the paper is going under.

rob verdi on January 25, 2009 at 9:10 AM

N.R.A. handmaiden

She says that like it’s a bad thing.

juliesa on January 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM

of course, she hates the new pick, some provincial from up-state representing the entitled like her.

rob verdi on January 25, 2009 at 9:19 AM

… choice to strangle. Ugh.

Dusty on January 25, 2009 at 9:21 AM

I love how they call her “Tracy Flick” like that’s some insult. I know people are supposed to hate her character in that movie and feel sorry for Matthew Broderick’s character, but I didn’t. He was a jerk who cheated on his wife with her best friend and was obsessively jealous of some teenage girl. What a loser. Tracy was a hard-working, driven, smart, young girl who was taken advantage of by an older male teacher, Broderick’s friend. (Hollywood likes to portray these teacher-student relationships as two-sided, but they’re not.. teachers have a responsibility to be the adult and keep it in their pants. That goes for men and women.) Tracy may have had an annoying personality, but at least she was hard working and motivated.

Really, the whole thing just reinforces what we saw with Sarah: liberals just don’t want smart, attractive women to be successful on their own. Keep in line, do what we think is appropriate for a woman to do, and we’ll love you. But think and act independently, and we’ll destroy you.

vermillionsky on January 25, 2009 at 9:36 AM

Really, the whole thing just reinforces what we saw with Sarah: liberals just don’t want smart, attractive women to be successful on their own. Keep in line, do what we think is appropriate for a woman to do, and we’ll love you. But think and act independently, and we’ll destroy you.

vermillionsky on January 25, 2009 at 9:36 AM

I don’t think that is completely true. The Left simply does not want *anyone* to be successful, unless they agree with the goals of the Left. Had Sarah Palin been a Lefty, they would have *adored!* her as much as they are adoring Princess Caroline. Had Condi been a Lefty they would have demonized Rev Wright for calling her “Condoskeeza”. Just look at how they turned from demonizing Colin Powell to turning around and praising him for criticizing the Bush Administration, the GOP and supporting Teleprompter Jesus.

For the Left, it has nothing to do with race, beauty, intelligence or anything like that. It has everything to do with liberalism/’progressivism’/socialism/Marxism. Obama does drugs in his youth and is a smoker? Not a problem. President Bush is a drinker in his youth? Open for ridicule and scorn. The same can be said for any corruption or sex scandal. If a Lefty/Democrat participates in corruption or a sex scandal, no big deal. If a Righty/Republican does so, it’s the end of the world!

The fact is that the only reason Blago is getting so much criticism is not because the Left sees this as such a bad thing, but because it has a bad association with their messiah. The new rule is that anything that makes their messiah look bad, they are against.

Michael in MI on January 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM

Take a look at this NewsMax story

Should get interesting.

Firebird on January 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM

vermillionsky on January 25, 2009 at 9:36 AM

Even more important, the actress that played her mother was the Playboy dancer in Apocalypse Now. Hubba hubba!

Blake on January 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM

The Media SHOULD love Blago. Simpatico between creative frauds and liars.

marklmail on January 25, 2009 at 10:48 AM

the_nile on January 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Exactly. Like Peggy Noonan ole Dowd seems to be looking for anything male to jump upon. To get man-handled then ravished by any guy in the political spotlight. Creepy, but true.

viking01 on January 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM

I love Blago too. He at least is an honestly corrupt Democrat. Can’t get more honest than selling a Senate seat for cash/job.
Unlike Democrat Charlie Rangel who forgets to pay his taxes
Or Democrat Chris Dodd who can’t understand that he got a sweetheart mortgage from a company he’s supposed to regulate but instead protects
Or Democrat Bill Richardson who has to withdraw his Commerce Secretary nomination due to some mysterious pay-for-play thingie that’s brewing
Or Democrat Thomas Geithner who can’t figure out he has to pay taxes even after signing papers acknowledging he has to pay and is given money to pay those taxes.
Or Democrat Eliot Spitzer who is a great moralizer while engaging in wire fraud to pay prostitutes.
Phew, and that’s just right off the top of my head.

You go, Blago!

rbj on January 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM

strangled his best choice, you mean your entitled drinking buddy? This women does not care about anything but her losing a source of information and topics for her vapid and increasingly meaningless opinion pieces. Just another reason the paper is going under.

rob verdi on January 25, 2009 at 9:10 AM

It appears Maureen has a girl crush on Princess Caroline. The more I hear the Left trash Gildebrand the more I like her. If her ‘colleagues’ say she is a ‘pain’ that’s political speak for ‘doesn’t blindly follow the party bosses orders’.

Red State State of Mind on January 25, 2009 at 2:38 PM