Twitter Inventors best Maureen Dowd
Disclaimer: I have an irrational hatred of Maureen Dowd. Whether it’s her sense of her own importance her sense of her being much cleverer than just about anyone else or just the unbearable air of smugness that pervades everything she writes and says, I’m not really sure.
Well, she has now pontificated on yet another subject she doesn’t have the first clue about – Twitter. This one is an interview initially with the two founders of Twitter but one found something more important to do mid interview – if I was his colleague I’d probably want to kill him for that. As always, the interview was really about Dowd with everything else serving as a prop to her majestic being.
Just to give a taste of the level of self absorption of Dowd here are a couple of the pearls that emanated from her with responses. She must have hated that the Twitter peasants were obviously not phased by being in the presence of royalty and gave as good and in most cases better. Dowd is probably to self absorbed to realize that she was well and truly bested in this interview.
ME: You say the brevity of Twitter enhances creativity. So I wonder if you can keep your answers to 140 characters, like Twitter users must. Twitter seems like telegrams without the news. We now know that on the president’s trip to Trinidad, ABC News’s Jake Tapper’s shower was spewing brown water. Is there any thought that doesn’t need to be published?
BIZ: The one I’m thinking right now
and;
ME: I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account. Is there anything you can say to change my mind?
BIZ: Well, when you do find yourself in that position, you’re gonna want Twitter. You might want to type out the message “Help.”
My personal favorite was this one:
ME: Would Shakespeare have tweeted?
BIZ: Brevity’s the soul of wit, right?
Dowd may deserve some credit for at least letting the world know that she was in the presence of people smarter than her. I suspect that she didn’t actually know that because the possibility of someone being smarter than her never crosses her mind. That would be like Cheney considering an approach to the world and it’s problems other than torture and war.
I admit that I bring baggage into any discussion about MoDo and am very unfair.
I think that it comes from liking writers who lose themselves in the process. She always for effect rather than illumination and I am the only person allowed to do that.
Your point is a perfectly fair one, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Ahh, give her the benefit of the doubt. The column was funny and a bit self-deprecating.