Someone check Maureen Dowd for a pulse! Maybe take her temperature. Does she need a nice rejuvenating bowl of chicken soup? As we all know, she positively glows when using her bully pulpit at the Times to attack a powerful woman. Today’s prey is Anna Wintour. But Dowd seems uncharacteristically ambivalent about the attack. Mean Maureen is positively lackluster! Instead of displaying her usual energetic savagery, via quotes, she mostly lets the Wintour insults come from the lips of others. Normally, she hogs the dagger, slamming it into her victims back, again, and again, and again, until the moment of her earsplitting orgasm. Multiple orgasms, or so I hear.
She does call Wintour a “monster,” but she tempers that by calling her a “sacred” monster. She flatteringly and ambiguously titles the article, “The Last Empress,” and makes sure to say Wintour’s daughter is lovely. And she ends the article with an undeciperable and benign, “That’s all.” So, unless it’s one of her mainstream media allusions that’s just beyond my little mind, it’s stunningly anemic for the Queen of Mean.
Wassa madda, Mean Maureen? Not feeling well? Too bloated from last week’s blood guzzling orgy at Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton’s expense to swallow another sip of blood? Or… hmmm… could it be, you’re afraid Wintour might retaliate from her own bully pulpit, Vogue Magazine?
