Breaking news from the Middle East: Maureen Dowd has a stomach bug!
The Washington Post sends a reporter to cover President Bush’s Middle East trip and what does he do? What important breaking news does he file?
He writes 851 words about Maureen Dowd’s stomach bug and how a White House doctor was kind enough to treat her.
He gave her Pepto-Bismol.
I think you’ll needs some, too, after reading that crap journalism. A snippet:
Presidential aides, including press secretary Dana Perino, made clear early on that Dowd could see Dr. Richard J. Tubb, the Air Force brigadier general who oversees the White House medical office and takes care of the president at home and abroad.
But Dowd declined. With no medication, she tried to soldier on by grabbing whatever rest she could in her hotel room–not easy to do in a trip of constant movements. By the time the presidential entourage moved to Bahrain from Kuwait on Saturday, she felt even worse. She was so sick, in fact, that she could not write her regular Sunday column.
Dowd finally decided to take up the White House on its offer.
A young press aide, Carlton Carroll, helped arrange for Dowd to visit Tubb at the Emirates Palace, the over-the-top $3 billion luxury hotel where the president and his aides were staying. The hotel is so vast that Dowd and her escorts got lost twice in the marble and gold hallways. She finally found herself in a fully-staffed doctors’ office with a trunk full of various medications, a solicitous nurse and a super-competent White House physician.
Tubb gave her a few tablets of Cipro and some Pepto-Bismol and told her to check back with him the next day. She turned down Tubb’s offer of an IV (so there was no chance of an “accidental” poisoning, she joked).
“He was wonderful–just really sweet,” Dowd said in an interview Tuesday afternoon in the press filing center in Riyadh, where she appeared to be on the mend and said she was feeling much better.
Hey, WaPo: I’ve got a hangnail. Send a reporter! I’m in nearby Maryland, so no need to buy your intrepid investigavie sleuth a plane ticket. I’ll give you the exclusive on my backache, too.
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Big News there….surprised it wasn’t front page on the NY Times.
Airsickness bags not included. This is news?!?!?!?
Compassionate conservatism at work.
These people are entrusted with the important job of bringing the news to the people and this is what we get? I demand a refund!
Michelle,
Morning Snort!
Dowd said of Bush: “I am not sure that his saving my life is going to be enough to save his.”
good thing Ann Coulter didn’t say that about a liberal pol… left wingers would be calling for her head on a post!
So, she finally (and grudgingly) saw the doctor who treats the POTUS. As if he wasn’t good enough, right?
What a twit.
I wonder…is this a sign that President Bush’s Middle East trip was successful and/or productive?
We know how the gatekeepers at the MSM work to underreport, hide, or ignore any good news coming out of Iraq, about the economy, or regarding President Bush in general.
So I perceive this waste of column inches as a sign that there was something positive going on in the Middle East.
You know the WaPo wouldn’t give a hoot about Dowd’s tummy bug if something negative happened…
No news is good news, huh? Dyspepsia on the part of Dowd surely falls within the scope of no news for me.
How brave of her to risk poisoning at the hands of George Bush’s Doctor!!!
/sarcasm mode off
Ahhhh … Bummer … too bad though that it was not handled in a politically correct manner …
To have been PC they should have told her that he was not a public physician …
Therefore … she needed to call Hillary and Barack and see how long it would be before she could see a doctor under their socialized medical plans? …
BlameAmericaLast
WEiith regard to grodgingly seeing the POTUS’ Dr.,
she was obviously afraid of being injected with “neocon”.
LOL
OK, the above is a spelling abomination.
Sorry…..need coffee.
Under the new Billary healthcare plan, they’ll send over a television pitch man(I’m not a real doctor, I just play one on TV) to kiss it and make it well.
Michelle–
I’m with you in your tough times. I’ll help you soldier through that backache and hangnail.
Perhaps you should start a blogdrive ala Sullivan, where you claim you’ll need $100,000 to pay for server costs, Aleve, and a nail clipper or you’ll have to quit blogging!
Another liberal hack with an exagerated sense of self-importance.Does this so-called journalist actually think that she has so much influence that the President’s physician would treat her any differently than anyone else?What a moron.
Hers wasn’t a stomach bug. It was all her liberalism congealing in her core, the volume of which clogged her up. Balance makes one happy, healthy and fit.
did somebody say Billary ?
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Michelle,be careful-they may send you a liberal doctor,who would amputate your fingers to treat that hangnail.
Have the NYT’s revenues declined to the point that its reporters are now forced to receive tax-payer subsidized health care?
(Wow, Mrs. M! So much to comment on this morning… and so little time!)
I do not understand MoDo’s concern with the doctor of the POTUS when all she had to do was: jump on her broom and fly off to see her Manhatten sawbones where she could be treated discreetly.
Even her nose is becoming hooked.
Let’s see now…Glenda was the good one…
And WaPo really thinks the world wants to wake up reading about Dowd and her DIARHEA?
I now my breakfast of Grits and Hogjowles is sitting there getting cold because WaPo decided to publish this CRAP for me to read at breakfast.
Easy fix Miss Dowd. DON’T DRINK THE FREAKING WATER!!!
Strange, I thought Dowd was only a carrier and gave other people diarrhea when they read or heard anything she had to say. What a surprise.
Bush goes to Israel then Saudi Arabia. So, doesn’t Saudi Arabia refuse entry to anyone with a visit to Israel stamped on their passport? How did Bush get in?
They may not budge their production of oil, but at least we got to stick our finger in their eye, just a bit. Oh, the thread is about Maureen Dowd? From her writings, I’m guessing diarrhea was involved? Yes? No? Let us know. Maybe a followup story is in order.
Too bad the doctor didn’t give her a prescription for common sense and reality.
Now if she were doing some actual reporting, say in Iraq, she could have seen one of our fine Navy Corpsman. They would have explained to her that it is easy to get an intestinal infection from hair products so she should keep her head out of that particular orifice. Of course that would disqualify her to ever vote Democratic again. Tough call.
Look at the bright side. If their telling us all about Maureen Dowd’s widdle tummy hurting, at least their NOT telling our enemies more of our secrets.
Have you all noticed how all these Left-Wingers and Liberals all try their best to live by their promise of “I’d rather die than let a Republican touch me.”, yet seldom are they able to brave even a cold or stomach flu before caving in and accepting the help of the evil, Dr. Moreau like charachter that they have imagined all Republican and Conservative physicians to be, since obviously they do not all dance naked around bonfires and worship at the sacred alter of Gaia at the Heathen festivals or some such hokieness.
And have you noticed also, that following such meetings and treatments from said Right-Wing, Republican physicians, they are always so amazed at the kindness shown to them? One truluy wonders why they refused treatment in the first place. Were they imagining things as I listed above? Am I so far off? Their reactions suggest I am not. They go straight to the media close to tears in their fascination to how they were treated, always kindly, caring, fixing what ailed them in a timely manner..not treating them any different because they were Democrats, Liberals, women, black or anything else. It is almost that they cannot believe that all the peopaganda they had been fed for decades had been…dare I say…(dare…dare…)LIES AND PROPAGANDA FROM LYING LIBERALS?!?!?!? Why yes…Doctors, regardless of who they follow, vote for, believe in, treat people the same. It doesn’t matter if they are Bush’s personal physician or not.
This little piece once again, shows that these morons in the media can’t see far enough past their own hatred, bigotry and partisanship to save their own lives. She was so convinced that the personal physician for the President would hold such a grudge towards “The All Powerfull Maureen Dowd” that he couldn’t possibly treat her right and, in fact, might even…POISON her (hee hee…not really)
Get over yourselves Liberals. Your hate is what leads your lives. Until such time as you let go of it all, you will continue to bring down this country. Stop hating your country, stop hating your fellow countrymen and start turning that hatred towards where it will do some good, since you obviously need to hate. Turn it towards our enemies…the ones who want to destroy us and our freedoms. Maybe then this country will come together. Until then, you are just afraid of your own sadows and doing nobody any harm but yourselves. Oh, and looking like idiots and children in the process.
Well, looks like George W. Bush and his Haliburton/Blackwater Bio-Warfare team stikes again! /sarcasm off
Maybe it was a ploy to see if the White House is truely against physician-assisted suicide.
So, essentially a liberal was offered excellent health care for free and it still was not good enough…
Does this mean it’s not really the cost of health care that bothers them, but rather the fact that they don’t have full control over it?
Likely cause of Maureen Dowd’s stomach illness was reading her own copy.
…meanwhile in other news, Katie Couric discovered a run in her nylons and let loose a a string of profanity at her chair during a commercial break. After initially refusing another chair, she finally accepted one from a kindly staffer…
More news after the break…
Wait till she gets the bill. Then she will have a real tummy ache.
Anyone else get the snide reference to the ‘over the top $3 billion dollar luxury hotel the president was staying in’? Methinks a mild case of BDS.
Cipro is hardly Pepto Bismol.
Cipro is the antidote for anthrax and the common treatment for a bacterial infection a la Montezuma’s revenge.
If Dowd were given Cipro, she was really sick.
Maureen Dowd has been writing the same two columns for about ten years. The first column is about how she and her female colleagues at the NY Times can’t find men to marry or even date because all the men are intimidated by Dowd’s higher income, superior intelligence and fantastic looks. All men, according to Dowd, are dogs. The men out there just don’t realize what a prize it would be for them to have a woman like Ms. Dowd. I have had the misfortune of hearing Ms. Dowd when she was on the Imus radio program. Her voice was so grating that it could break glass.
Her other column is how evil Israel is. She has written perhaps 50 columns to her antiIsrael obsession. Lately she has been writing about Israel’s horrendous conduct toward the peace loving HAMAS government of Gaza.
Stomach bug? Riiiiiight. That’s the excuse I’d use if I were hungover and couldn’t make it into work.
Cipro is a “broad spectrum” antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections here in the U.S. too. Usually we prescribe it to cover a broad range of bacteria until a culture result is obtained. It’s very useful in cystitis. Also, the Washington Post and NYT does not send reporters to Iraq. They send commentators. I don’t think they have “reporters” on their payrolls. Reporters “report” the news. I have seen anyone “report” the news there since Iraq Freedom started. It always has to have a “spin” or “slant” to be accepted.
I think she actually has a couple more. One is the BDS rant of the day, the other trashing her fellow Democrats. It seems nobody can measure up to her superior intellect, wit, charm, and insight.
What knuckleheaded editor went with this waste of space? These reporters need to be reigned in; but these editors are complicit.
Make her ride in the baggage compartment o the way home! Nobody wants to hear someone BELLY-ACHING on a 16 hour flight!
Maureen Dowd with the runs. I think that is a marvelous story. Made my day.
The bug that’s been up her a** all this time finally got to her.
Hold on there jsr, have you forgotten Cindy Sheehan so soon?
I feel sorry for the virus that entered her. Must be icky in there.
What would be synonymous for “atta boy” for a virus?
Many people believe that military doctors aren’t real doctors, that they haven’t had enough training.
I think that this is what was on Ms. Dowd’s mind until the discomfort got to be too much.
Was it Maureen Dowd or her ancestors who inspired the word “dowdy”:
1. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby: a dowdy gray outfit.
2. Old-fashioned; antiquated.
A dowdy person; a frump.
boo-freakin-hoo
What the doctor didn’t tell her was that she wasn’t sick. The feeling she was experiencing was called true compassion and remorse for all the wrongs she has committed and all the foul, loathsome things she has done. It was called “Guilty Conscience Syndrome” the pills were nothing more than placebos. She started to feel these symptoms while in the Middle East seeing what the “Religion of Peace was truly all about and that all the lies she had been telling about how Bush was the cause of the violence and all the other stuff was just wrong. The doctor figured as soon as she got home and all her Liberal friends started to pum up her ego and she started to get that healthy dose of self-righteous Liberal indignation back into her system this guilt feeling would go away by itself and she would be back to her old filled with hatred and self-loathing self in no time.
Smart guy that doc.
I think Mo-Do was just having a bit of Cosmo-withdrawal (the drink, not the mag-rag).
How can they waste time on this trivia when Britney Spears is in such deep trouble.
How OLD is that picture of her?
The liberal minions of the MSM just needs a little tweaking and everything might be okay.