Maureen Dowd
Liberals retreating into fantasy to cope with Obama’s debate loss
OBAMA The girls are fine, that wasn’t the problem. In the debate prep we —
BARTLET Whoa … there was prep?
OBAMA (shouting) Enough! (taking a cigarette and lighting it) I appreciate that the view’s pretty good from the cheap seats. Gore chalked up my debate performance to the altitude. He debated at sea level — what was his excuse?
BARTLET They told you to make sure you didn’t seem condescending, right? They told you, “First, do no harm,” and in your case that means don’t appear condescending, and you bought it. ’Cause for the American right, condescension is the worst crime you can commit.
OBAMA What’s your suggestion?
BARTLET Appear condescending. Now it comes naturally to me —
OBAMA I know.
Blowback
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Does anyone think that maybe it had something to do with his tobacco habit? Perhaps he wasn’t permitted to smoke hours before the debate.
ericdondero on October 7, 2012 at 7:20 PM
How can you “retreat” into fantasy world when you never left it?
Rod on October 7, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Read the article. Obama will be committing suicide if he follows old Mo’s advice. lol!
Blake on October 7, 2012 at 7:23 PM
First comment over there.
El_Terrible on October 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM
I thought this was satire, or something made up by the Onion.
Heck the first comment over there was facepalm worthy.
No wonder the liberal trolls and ABR nutballs here are immune to the simplist logic.
cozmo on October 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM
I was gonna suggest they’re retreating DEEPER into fantasy but most already seem to be near the back of the cave.
Marxism is for dummies on October 7, 2012 at 7:27 PM
whatevs Modo…..whatevs.
ted c on October 7, 2012 at 7:28 PM
Idiots like that are not going to know what hit them on election day.
txhsmom on October 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
What in the hell did I just read?
JPeterman on October 7, 2012 at 7:32 PM
When you figure it out, let me know. I’m still scratching my head.
cozmo on October 7, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Suck on this, morons.
Kenosha Kid on October 7, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Just glanced at the “NYT picks” comments on the article.
Oh brother>>>>rolls eyes.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Jomama on October 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM
Yeah, I know. I’m not going there. Better things to do.
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 7:39 PM
What the?????
gophergirl on October 7, 2012 at 7:42 PM
WOW.
She still talks to the guy who made her a spinster.
Holy crap, is she a masochist.
budfox on October 7, 2012 at 7:43 PM
On an episode of Seinfeld, George is stung by an insult but is unable to think of a retort, so he spends days trying to come up with the perfect comeback, until he finally thinks of it and travels around the country to get the chance to deliver it.
Seinfeld: Comeback
This is what Obama and his minions have been doing ever since Wednesday’s Mile High Massacre. Unfortunately for them, more than 60 million Americans witnessed the crushing and the credits had already rolled and been stored in The Newseum by the time any of their “perfect comebacks” were delivered to an audience experiencing George’s “Hampton’s shrinkage problem.”
The Best of Seinfeld – The Shrinkage
Resist We Much on October 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM
You are a pilot over enemy territory and you are shot down. They give you a choice of tortures. Which would you take:
~ Maureen Dowd
~ Chuck Blow
~ Waterboarding
Glug glug glug. Make mine a double.
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM
She gets paid to write that crap.
forest on October 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM
ted c on October 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM
Geez, Meghan McCain snickers at this stuff.
This is beyond juvenile….
SteveMG on October 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM
You know anything that begins with
is gonna be a real sail on the failboat.
Dirt McGirt on October 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Well, if you don’t understand it, then I guess I didn’t lose something in translation.
JPeterman on October 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM
West Wing went off the air in 2006.
I mean, good grief, talk about empty headed drivel.
As I said, Meghan McCain would roll her eyes at this.
SteveMG on October 7, 2012 at 7:59 PM
Its worth reading. Especially because of the casual, sadistic violent fantasy directed at Jim Lehrer. I expect something like that from some low brow leftwing blog, Kos or DU, but not from the NYT. Not even from their mentally challenged columnists.
Valkyriepundit on October 7, 2012 at 7:59 PM
LOL. I’m not sure which one of the imaginary president’s suggested Obama comebacks to Romney’s “lies” is funnier — the one about Obama’s Medicare cuts, or the one about GM’s “record profits.” But I’d sure like to see Obama offer up some of these softballs to Romney.
OBAMA: “Hey seniors, don’t worry about that 3/4 of a Trillion Dollars that I’ve cut out of Medicare spending in order to fund Obamacare. That $716 Billion Dollar cut won’t affect your Medicare benefits — it will just affect all the doctors and hospitals who provide your Medicare benefits. They’ll keep providing exactly the same level of benefits to you, even though their reimbursements have been slashed by hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. They’ll just make up the difference out of their petty cash funds, or from the coins they find behind the couch cushions in their waiting rooms. You can trust me. I’m Obama. Have I ever lied to you about anything?”
AZCoyote on October 7, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Your mockery is wonderful. Send it to Treacher. Send it to Boss Emeritus. Send it everywhere. It’s mockery that makes for game changers.
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 8:10 PM
That reminds me: Willa, I did call you for a date the summer after high school graduation, but you weren’t home, and I lost my nerve.
Seth Halpern on October 7, 2012 at 8:15 PM
The riots on Election Night after Obama gets fired will be entertaining.
Moesart on October 7, 2012 at 8:16 PM
No they won’t.
cozmo on October 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Speaking of riots on election night, maybe a Venezuela thread tonight would be timely?
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 8:21 PM
Barack HUSSEIN Obama can’t win a debate against an opponent who dares oppose him.
Romney is the first ever. He made him look worse than Al (SIGH) Gore vs Bush and even worse than Carter vs Reagan 1980.
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Reality is so hard for Progs…
d1carter on October 7, 2012 at 8:34 PM
Considering that Hussein plans to be Chavez 2.0 it would be. If we elect him in 2012, we won’t be rid of him in January 2017, mark my words!
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:34 PM
That is the purpose of the OWS movement.
They will happen. Hussein plans to use them to stay in power. He will fail, because everyone but the fringe wants him gone…
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Why did I click that link?
Why did I think, after a decade of ignoring her, that Maureen Dowd had suddenly become readable?
billy on October 7, 2012 at 8:38 PM
That worries me a lot.
Short of that, we can be assured that, by executive fiat, he will alter the playing field such that Dems/unions/media/trial lawyers and other dependents will become institutionalized and the majority for as far out as the eye can see. I think we can bank on that.
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 8:44 PM
See there? Water boarding would have been more fun.
petefrt on October 7, 2012 at 8:46 PM
The excerpt had me so confused, I actually clicked on the link (against my better judgment). And then I was even more confused as I tried to figure out who Barlett was, when he was president, and why I never learned about him in any history class or book.
I should have stuck to just reading the HA headline and left it at that.
CJ — who is not a TV watcher, but who does know the difference between fiction characters and real people
CJ on October 7, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Prissy Chrissy “Bad Acid” Matthews has been sharing his stash again.
viking01 on October 7, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Martin Sheen is livid West Wing isn’t still on the air because it would make pardoning Charlie Sheen so much easier.
viking01 on October 7, 2012 at 8:52 PM
Well, I don’t know if it means anything, but my lib Facebook friends have been really quiet and avoiding political posts.
Queen0fCups on October 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM
The saddest part is how many people, like Ms. Dowd, believe Martin Sheen was really a President. Or that Jeff Daniels is a real anchorman.
It’s like those kids who were suicidal because they suddenly realized the characters in Avatar were fictional.
DarthBrooks on October 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM
That was the lamest thing I’ve read in a long–well, since the last thing I read by MoDope. But hey, maybe Bammie should get Martin Sheen to play Bartlet and act as his surrogate to prepare for Prez Debates Part Deux.
stukinIL4now on October 7, 2012 at 9:48 PM
I can’t wait for president mom jeans to get all tough with Romney. Peevish, condescending Obama will do sooooo much better in the debate. LoLz
bitsy on October 7, 2012 at 10:01 PM
I just posted it with a photo:
George Costanza Obama
Resist We Much on October 7, 2012 at 10:08 PM
So let’s assume my private insurance company says we are no longer going to reimburse providers for MRIs. How would that not affect the beneficiary getting the MRI? Is the medical office going to give them out for free? Of course not. You are going to pay for it yourself or you aren’t getting it.
The bottom line is you can’t take out that money from medicare and say beneficiaries are going to get the same care.
Wigglesworth on October 7, 2012 at 10:11 PM
There is one episode where George turned into a success. He did the opposite of what his brain told him to do and to his amazement he turned from a loser into a winner. If only Obama had that revelation.
Wigglesworth on October 7, 2012 at 10:14 PM