I had nothing to do with this

Hate in your heart will consume you, too…Will Smith, Just the two of us…

A fellow blogger who shall remain nameless suggested that Maureen Dowd lost her prime Sunday op-ed journo real estate because of some things I’d written in response to her dopiness, here and here…and, um…well, here.

I say no. Whatever has happened to Maureen Dowd has happened to her because she has completely given herself over to her hatred. Hate in your heart will consume you, too, and MoDo is sadly cannibalizing herself.

So, when this news about Tina Brown’s show being cancelled broke, another blogger suggested that it was my fault, because of this piece, here.

Once again, I plead innocent. I am quite certain that my one bit of writing on Ms. Brown is a completely inconsequetial event in the universe, just as anything I’ve written about Dowd, Margaret Carleson or any of these women has had no effect on anything. I am quite rightly an obscure blogger with a tiny-but-loyal readership, and not even a burr on the butt of any one of them.

I’m sure Ms. Brown’s show was axed for one reason and one reason only: it stank and had lousy ratings. Who the heck wants to watch a smug, superior-sounding woman dish her non-stop snootiness? Who has time for it? Not me. Not most people, apparently.

But…this touches on something (albeit vaguely) that I wrote earlier this morning, about the “high school” mindset of all of these women who have allowed their hate to overrule their once-clever heads.

The strange compulsion these women have to drip little drops of acid into all of their prose, even when it is completely irrelevent and gratuitous, seems to be running way out of control. Bill Quick at the Daily Pundit now points out that Eleanor Clift (a charter member of his spoiled schoolgirl society) is unable to stop herself from casual, almost perfunctory Catholic/Bush bashing. Casual and perfunctory translate into mindless, to me.

Writes Ms. Clift: May 6 – Everybody’s rebranding these days, and the labor movement is no exception. Fifty years ago, one in three workers belonged to a union; today, it’s one in 10. No other institution except maybe the Vatican is in more need of an overhaul.

Sez Bill Quick – not anyone’s idea of a religious fanatic: I’m not religious, but somebody needs to call Eleanor Clift on this piece of bilge.

Over the past fifty years, union membership in this country has sunk by nearly seventy percent. Over the same period, membership in the Catholic church in the U.S. has increased from approximately 20% of the population to 26-30% of the population, a 30-50% increase.

So would you, as a fair-minded and objective reader, say that Ms. Clift is correct in stating that the Catholic church needs an overhaul more than the U.S. union movement?

Me neither.

Like I said, gratuitous. And stupid. And sadly, strangely habitual.

I’m not of a mind to take down Eleanor Clift. She is recently widowed and I don’t want to stomp on her. But I hope that somehow, before it is too late for her, she figures out that her reflexive, knee-jerk, poisonous little droplets cannot be good for her psyche, her career or – ultimately – her health.

We conservatives have Ann Coulter, who’se really not my cuppa – she’s brilliant but perhaps a tad too biting, for me. But in terms of female pundits proffering poison, we have ONLY Coulter. We don’t have a whole stable of braying asses.

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