Is This the Worst Sentence Maureen Dowd Ever Wrote?

Posted by William Rabkin on January 19, 2009

I know the competition is pretty tough, but it’s hard to imagine something much clumsier in its desperate attempt to be clever than this:

We’re trading a dogmatic president for one who’s shopping for a dog.

The next eight years may indeed be long for those looking for ways to poke fun at the president…

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3 Responses to “Is This the Worst Sentence Maureen Dowd Ever Wrote?”

Mo MoDo said

January 19, 2009 at 04:50
You are ridiculing a much hallowed Dowdversion, the literary conceit where Maureen flips a phrase in a clever or ironic way. She’s got at least a half dozen in that column alone.

And yes, this one makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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Bill Martell said

March 9, 2009 at 21:43
Did you go into hibernation for two months?

- Bill

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- William Rabkin said
  
  March 9, 2009 at 21:45
  Yes, but I’m beginning to climb out of the cave…
  
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