"It was shown as an inflight movie and people still walked out."

#MaureenDowd talking about #Melania the #movie.

"It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead."

~~~Maureen Dowd's opening sentence in her NY Times opinion piece in today's paper, titled "Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon."

She continues: "He is going to spur some superlative Pentagon coverage. Because nothing gets a bunch of reporters going like being forced out of the building where they work and being told they aren’t allowed to do their jobs."

[He] "does not like how the media covered him as he ascended — utterly unqualified and looking like the third lead of a cheesy spring-break movie."

"Knowing he’s in over his head, Hegseth has grown more paranoid and resentful — qualities we need in the supervisor of a nearly trillion-dollar budget, supervising troops and weapons all over the world."

"Hegseth, immature and unconfident, cannot accept that a free press is integral to democracy."

#MaureenDowd #Hegseth #Pentagon

Robert Redford quote:

“I was not interested in the red, white and blue part of America,” Redford told NPR’s Terry Gross. “I was interested in the grey part where complexity lies.”

In a 'correspondents section' article by Maureen Dowd, written Sept 21, 2025, published by the Irish Times online.

It's a very thought-provoking statement.

#RobertRedford
#IrishTimes
#MaureenDowd

"Vax Quack Lacks Facts" - yes, I read a MoDo column for the first time in a decade, and it wasn't egregiously annoying. In fact I agreed with it. Those are the times we live in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-maha.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU8.ITWp.ve9cv0fnqvFB&smid=url-share

#nytimes #maureendowd #antivaxxers #uspol #trump #rfkjr