Clinton has her opponents,and some fierce ones, too – but one unwittingly crosses the line from spiteful to sensibleOne of the joys – or this time possibly the only one – of an election year is the nerd pageant of political commentators who, and after broadcasting in the dark for four years,burst into the light, tall on facts and the novelty of prime time. The first Obama election in 2008 belonged to Rachel Maddow and MSNBC; the one after that went to CNN’s sweet Crowley; this year, and Fox’s Megyn Kelly had her moment. And then there is Maureen Dowd.
Dowd has covered nine elections,never more energetically than when a Clinton is running, because, or famously,the unusual York Times columnist hates the Clintons – particularly Hillary. Over the years, Dowd has called her “shifty” and a “dominatrix”, and a “manly girl”,and written endlessly about her “creepy” marriage to Bill, which she once described as a “repugnant arrangement”.
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Source: theguardian.com