February 25, 2018

"On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a rich, coldhearted, frozen snake. His tangerine skin was all caked with makeup..."

"... and his bald spot was frosted with the dew. 'Poor thing,' she cried, 'I’ll take you in, and I’ll take care of you.'/'Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for Heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh tender woman,' sighed the vicious snake. She wrapped him up all cozy, tucking in his absurdly long tie of silk, and laid him by her fireside with two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate shake of milk. She hurried home that night from holding up a torch on Liberty Island, and soon as she arrived, she found that the freaky snake, transfixed by his own image on TV, had been revived...."

Maureen Dowd strikes venomously at Donald Trump, who did that damned "Snake" poem again the other day, at CPAC.

Here, I cued up Trump's "Snake" performance for you. As I said yesterday, live-blogging my reading of the speech, "Oh, no, he's going to do the snake! There's a big lead up, then the entire performance":

36 comments:

Narayanan said...

Trump is rent free in Dowd's head.

Narayanan said...

Not a workable business model for real estate venturer. But maybe she will be mugged by reality.

Narayanan said...

And recognize it when happens.

rhhardin said...

I hadn't heard the snake. Great Trump.

Shouting Thomas said...

Our president speaks the truth, about snakes and women.

Fernandinande said...

Terrible audio on that speech, as though the mic was on the other side of the room.

"PBS is a publicly funded American broadcaster" - still?

Narayanan said...

Has Dowd done a snake with Harvey Weinstein that classy New Yorkers took to their bosom?

rhhardin said...

Snake is pretty apt for immigration but not for Trump. A sense of allegory not working would benefit Dowd.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

When I was young I overheard my mother tell the joke about the frozen bird that gets dumped on by the cow.

She was telling it because she thought it was funny, probably drunk.

That kind of thinking was what passed for wisdom in her family.

rhhardin said...

Audio: room echo is okay in stereo but not monaural.

David Begley said...

This media TDS is so, so fucking tiresome and stale. Russia, too.

Amadeus 48 said...

Maureen--You go, girl!

If only they had made you editor of your high school newspaper, you wouldn't be so unhappy. That's when it all started to go wrong.

BamaBadgOR said...

Trump's repeated recitation of The Snake was one of the greatest campaign mantras of all time.

Darrell said...

MoDo goes through snakes like crazy.
God knows what she does to them.

Bob Boyd said...

Rikki-Tiki-Tavi Visits the World's Largest Ball of Snakes.

MikeD said...

Poor Maureen, she still can't get laid by any A-List male, been tryin' her entire post teen life.

bolivar di griz said...


Sound and fury, signifying nothing told by an idiot

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5431965/The-hero-cops-ran-Florida-shooter.html

rhhardin said...

Dowd got laid by Michael Douglas I think.

Sebastian said...

"Maureen Dowd strikes venomously at Donald Trump" Huh? A witless pinprick, lame even by MoDo standards.

Quaestor said...

If only they had made you editor of your high school newspaper, you wouldn't be so unhappy. That's when it all started to go wrong.

That's probably why she still uses her high school annual photo with her byline.

Bay Area Guy said...

Hah - spinster Mo Dowd is still at the NYTimes?

I didn't know that:)

The gal was hot ---- 35 years ago.

Gahrie said...

Trump is rent free in Dowd's head.

And he's lonely.

Michael K said...

The NRA is even in her rant.

This will be another great year for membership and gun makers are gearing up for a banner year.

Trump's election threatened a slump but I sometimes wonder if Democrat IRAs, hidden from the media, have heavy investments in gun shares.

Wince said...

Now all of a sudden Dowd is "Weird Al"?

Danno said...

Wow, MoDo is ranting mad. Maybe she should consider assisted suicide.

chickelit said...

"Dowd got laid by Michael Douglas I think."

That explains her interest in herpetology.

Bill said...

Maureeen Dowd strikes venomously

I see what you did there.

rcocean said...

Maureeen Dowd:

A second rate writer for third rate minds

She fits right in;

At the New York Times.

Anonymous said...

That "poem" is just a semi-recitation of this popular song from 1969:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vjfw7UHl_E

I am surprised Althouse didn't recognize it.

Ipso Fatso said...

The Snake

Here is the song “The Snake” with the same lyrics. It is by Al Wilson, I think this is 1968. I remember this from when I was a kid and haven’t heard it in years.

Ipso Fatso said...

Oh well,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vjfw7UHl_E

traditionalguy said...

Trump is starting to remind me of my Grandmother re-telling one of her stories. One that you have heard her tell for years. She could do it without changing a single word or intonation. She was part human tape player. It may be an Episcopalian thing.

Narayanan said...

Trump could be her dream lover, that she needs to disavow when awake.

Do German have word for it?

Luke Lea said...

Maureen Dowd can be fun. And sexy. But by the end it reads like she really has been bitten by a snake as she loses it completely in long rolls of liberal talking points.

jg said...

Joke's on Dowd for spitting venom at Gore and Hillary all these years. Thanks, Maureen.

FIDO said...

This post got 37 (now 38 comments). Which shows how much interest the NYT and Maureed Dowd still has in the public consciousness outside of the Blue Bubbles.

I hope they know this. I hope they can visibly SEE their influence diminishing, their readership failing, that they get mocked regularly because of their duplicitous ways. I hope they recall the tenants that they were taught (and ignored) in journalism school. That they actually read hard reporting in the Guardian and the Times of England...and feel the emptiness in their ethics and their souls. "I used to be a journalist. I used to be relevant.'

How exactly do they recover? When you are a congenital liar (ala any Clinton still breathing or Trump), how do you recover your reputation?