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By:\u00a0Scott Whitlock<\/div>\n
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Marueen Dowd, Roman Catholic Raised and Schooled, Democrat, NY Times Columnist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York Times columnist\u00a0Maureen Dowd<\/a>on Wednesday\u00a0 continued to ramp up the newspaper’s vitriolic attacks against Tea Party conservatives,\u00a0bizarrely describing them as “cannibals” “zombies” and “vampires.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Connecting the debt ceiling deal to The Exorcist, Halloween and Alien (among other horror movies), Dowd offered these hyperbolic comparisons:<\/p>\n

Tea Party budget-slashers didn\u2019t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.<\/p>\n

They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country\u2019s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims,<\/strong>\u00a0Boehner and President Obama. They were like the metallic beasts in \u201cAlien\u201d flashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth, bursting out of Boehner\u2019s stomach every time he came to a bouquet of microphones. (Conjuring that last image on Monday, Vladimir Putin described America as \u201ca parasite.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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The piece included other cartoonish assertions, such as:<\/p>\n

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The horror director Brian De Palma once described the simple essence of his genre: \u201cThere is just something about a woman and a knife.\u201d\u00a0But, in this case, it was the president \u2014 and the federal government \u2014 being chased through dim corridors by a maniacal gang with big knives held high.\u00a0<\/strong>Like Dracula\u2019s castle, the majestic Capitol suddenly seemed forbidding, befogged not with dry ice but with the stressed-out Speaker John Boehner\u2019s smoking. Like all great horror movies, this one existed in that surreal zone between fantasy and reality, as the Tea Party zealots created their own reality in midnight meetings.<\/p>\n

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The liberal columnist summed up the resolution to the debt standoff by lamenting….<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/timeswatch\/articles\/2011\/20110804032256.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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