Maureen Dowd
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429 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Maureen Dowd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ireland has changed a lot. You know, they had a gay Indian.
Yeah. Crime minister.
I did one of these pieces on her.
She was great. I mean, she was...
Yeah, I was born there.
No, he was a D.C. police detective who was in charge of Senate security. Got shot. For 20 years. He didn't get shot. He captured the gun of—he ran— from the Senate to the House and tackled and took the gun away from one of the Puerto Rican terrorists.
Yeah, so he shot up the House. You can still see the gunshots on some of the desks. And he took the gun, and then there was a trial. And the defense attorney asked him how he knew that it was his client's gun. And my dad goes, because I carved my initials on it, which you can see if you look at it.
He was... My dad was very magnetic and cool. And... Anyway, Washington is one big ball of stress. They need some weed there. I mean, they're ripping it from the inside out.
No.
Right.
Everyone's head is spinning. I mean, this wolf pack or brat pack of young doge kids. Yeah. with backpacks and pizza shows up. They had a confrontation today or yesterday at the U.S. Institute of Peace where they didn't want to let them in, and they were trying to sneak in. And, you know, it's scary because it was—I think you— said something.
I'm elaborating on it, but it's like if you want to get rid of your stomach, you don't use a John Belushi samurai sword to cut it off. You just use a Zympic. There's a more careful way to do it. I mean, it would be nice to save money and have a leaner government, but these kids show up and they're trying to get into agencies. It's very disorienting because there was no
in the sense of there's no, you know, disclosure agreements. Nobody knows what they're getting. They're getting taxpayers' information. And... A lot of it probably is illegal. And, you know, it's just an insane situation. And Elon Musk, there's a piece about him in the book.
When he didn't like Trump. Yeah, when he didn't like Trump.
Right.
Right.
Well, Silicon Valley was liberal and now it's very Republican.
And everybody in Hollywood had a Tesla.
He's gone very far. But I think the problem is he does not believe in government, so he's perfectly happy to eviscerate government. And he's treating it like a business or something. And it's government. You know, you can't do that. I'm not saying I don't want to get rid of stupid and wasteful things.
But the way they're doing it, you know, just imagine Washington and this crazy pack of kids running around getting everyone's information. Yeah.
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