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Sometimes It Hurts to Be Right

By Pareene, 1:40 PM on Wed May 7 2008, 3,209 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Gawker, yesterday: "Anyway we can't wait to see what new way [Maureen Dowd] comes up with of calling Barack Obama a fag tomorrow." Maureen Dowd, today: "As she makes a last frenzied and likely futile attempt to crush the butterfly, it's as though she's crushing the remnants of her own girlish innocence." Guess who the "butterfly" is. [NYT]

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