MeanGirls http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7560/all en Dowd Says Sarah Palin 'Has Made Ignorance Fashionable' http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/dowd-says-sarah-palin-has-made-ignorance-fashionable <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Maureen Dowd not only finds female Republican candidates to be &quot;Mean Girls,&quot; but they are ignorant as well: &quot;But now another famous beauty with glowing skin and a powerful current, Sarah Palin, has made ignorance fashionable.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Columnist Maureen Dowd is on a roll attacking Republican women. First she caught the attention of the Drudge Report with her snide evaluation in her <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/opinion/17dowd.html">Saturday column</a> on the new crop of Republican "Mean Girls." Her Wednesday entry, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/opinion/20dowd.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB">Making Ignorance Chic</a>" made a segue from Marilyn Monroe's intelligence to attacking that of Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, and Sharron Angle.<br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/dowd-says-sarah-palin-has-made-ignorance-fashionable" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch liberalmediabias MarilynMonroe MaureenDowd MeanGirls NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias SarahPalin TimesWatch Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:50:00 +0000 admin 7891 at http://archive2.mrc.org