What's behind Maureen Dowd's contempt for Desiree Rogers?

Um, they were both taken down by crazy social climbers?

Because our country's pundit elites will surely put anyone in their place whom they feel is out of place and doesn't belong within their circle of influence.

Simply put: our press has decided they don't like Rogers. Welcome to Malkin's America ...

No matter what happenned at the gate during that State dinner, the buck stops at the Secret Service. That these 'journalists' keep trying to scapegoat Desiree Rogers shouldn't surprise anyone, though - this White House will never do the right thing in their eyes - they just keep digging for stories to illustrate their imagined ineptitude.

If Desiree had stood at the door and told the Secret Service to let them in, they still should not have let them in. Case closed.

And, God forbid they should have a social secretary who is actually a social person.

Anyone who takes anything Maureen Dowd says more seriously than, say, South Park, is a fool.

I don't think Maureen has any more contempt for Ms. Rogers than she does for any public or semi-public figure. I see her as an iconoclast when it comes to politics related issues, poking a sharp stick at whoever. It's just that MMFA has contempt for Maureen when she picks on the current adminstration and its minions.

What's bizarre, as usual, is your assumption that a tabloid columnist should be as intellectually serious as you pretend to be. Dowd is shallow but she was right about Kerry, and Gore, about Edwards and about Clinton and her tears. The democratic "theater critic" commentators like Dowd and Rich have been better and more consistent than any one of you idiots with backgrounds in philosophy and political science, who still see America as the "necessary" country. You take the US and yourselves far too seriously.

Your main complaint with Dowd is that she disses those you treat with deference. You're proud Clinton-era liberals, when Clinton was and is conservative and more than that a simple pig. But you don't begin with observation you begin with reason, so you think of yourselves as the equivalent as internationalists and socialists rather than nationalists and democratic party hacks.
Does Desiree Rogers deserves a write-up? I don't care.
I don't read Dowd much, but it's annoying to read attacks on her by self-satisfied political moralists who are in no position to moralize.
The country needs to grow up and Dowd's less immature than you. It's like watching a teenage girl being lectured by a 9 year old boy.

I never thought I would be defending the women with whom Woods was allegedly involved, but, in addition to her "mean girl" comments that we've seen many times before, including those directed at Rogers, she calls them "Vegas parasites." I don't recall hearing about any of these women before Woods crashed his car. No stories about extortion or even publicity grabbing headlines - nor about betrayed husbands - and all were gainfully employed, apparently. So apparently Woods felt he was getting a fair exchange in whatever interactions he had with them. Sounds a bit harsh to call them "parasites", and maybe more of an example of the female-self-hating we've come to expect from Dowd and unfortunately a number of others.

"sashaying around" is code for "strut'in" which is code for "uppity" I think this is a case of black swans.

Where was Maureen when Rumsfeld(sp?), Cheney, Rove and the other Bush Minions were "Sashaying around" lying and starting wars?

there is this thing with the women in the beltway press that is out to bring down Rogers. Why?

the other day, I believe it was MMFA that pointed to an article by the social columnist in the Wapo that spent the whole column trashing the woman

Then for two days, April Ryan of NPR just about lost all common sense, decency and professionalism with her near screeching at Robert Gibbs over Rogers.

Now Dowd.

And all three keep harping on some Mag. that had Rogers in a fashion spread. Seems some are getting catty and jealous. (as a woman I can use catty).
meeeooowww!!!!!

I think she was deriving the idea of "entitlement" from the fact it's considered "improper" for her to seat herself at the White House dinner and pleading executive privilege to guard herself from testifying before Congress.

I thought it was a dumb column (as most of Dowd's are in my view), but I don't think it's anything other than that. Dowd is just writing a dumb column like usual.

It's called ENVY.

And the older and more unappealing the terminally single Dowd becomes, the more it will come to the fore. She wishes desperately she was Desiree Rogers - end of story.

Let's see, what do Tiger Woods and Desiree Rogers possibly have in common for Ms Dowd? Maybe she thinks they're both a little too "uppity".

I've got a feeling that if you scratch Ms Dowd's surface, you start to find some really ugly stuff.

I pointed out in her comments section that these 2 Spectacular Nobodies weren't worth a column from the NYT tabloid reporter notwithstanding. As I do here.

Maureen, so sorry. It sppears as though you will not have the opportunity (in this Administration) to "strut-your-stuff". Please try to be happy for Desiree Rogers. Let go of the envy, bad for your digestion.

Media critic Bob Somerby always says: "Maureen Dowd doesn’t do policy." Say no more.