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Maureen Dowd apparently has it in for Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

The New York Times columnist been pounded by critics over her blog post in which she used a tribute to the late comic genius Robin Williams as a jumping-off point to blast the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/maureen-dowd-reaches-self-parody-links-robin-wi\/200415<\/p>\n

I guess that’s what happens when zealots latch onto an issue, or a personality, and cannot let either of them go.<\/p>\n

To be blunt, I’ve seen my share of them during my own career in print journalism. One of them stands out.<\/p>\n

He lives in Amarillo. His name is David Grisham, who purports to be a preacher. I guess he is, given that anyone can preach his or her version of the Bible to anyone willing to listen.<\/p>\n

Grisham also is an avid anti-abortionist. And I do mean avid<\/em>. Maybe fervent<\/em> is a better word. <\/p>\n

He’s submit letters to the editor on this subject or that, but somehow would find a way to insert his view of abortion into the discussion.<\/p>\n

I can’t recall precisely how he did it, but he might be prone to use such references while discussing, let’s say, downtown Amarillo redevelopment. He might say something like this: “I oppose downtown Amarillo’s planned redevelopment because I don’t want to see my tax money paying for an abortion clinic that could<\/em> be built within the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.” <\/p>\n

Dowd’s connection between Hillary Clinton and Robin Williams does seem like a stretch. These things do present themselves, sadly, when one cannot hide his or her zeal.<\/p>\n\n

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Maureen Dowd apparently has it in for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The New York Times columnist been pounded by critics over her blog post in which she used a tribute to the late comic genius Robin Williams as a jumping-off point to blast the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state. http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/maureen-dowd-reaches-self-parody-links-robin-wi\/200415 I guess … Continue reading Dowd obsession nothing new<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,1359,2139,2960,3991],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-depression","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-robin-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}