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more about #maureendowd more comments → Mediahohoho: We love her because we don't know what she stands for. But it's what we believe in, that's for sure. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Goddamn, Pareene. Nailed it. Maureen Dowd is a tired, weak, shatteringly insecure hack who hasn't had an original thought of her own in 20 years and ... more » xyzpdq: Interviewer: What’s some of the [government] spending you’d like to see cut? Grandma in line: All of it, all of it. Spending on Medicare, Medica... more » Baroness: Douthat: "Both (Palin and Huckabee) came from lower-middle-class backgrounds, and joined a soft-edged social conservatism to a strong populist streak... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: That video needs more Carl Monday. more » Spirit Fingers: I'm thinking if Obama started speaking and/or thinking like Sarah Palin, then he in fact would need a CAT scan, because he very clearly has had a stroke. more » OldManRiver: " I can't think of a policy right off the bat". Stolen from one of Palins' interviews. "I don't know half of the things that people ask me". God this ... more » Mediahohoho: I'm not sure why Palin is supposed to be brilliantly managing her book tour when the second day on it she pissed off a crowd of frozen Hoosiers by sco... more » BadUncle: I'd be happy if Obama would shoot Maureen Dowd from a helicopter. more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: I hate how they've turned that thing into a vehicle for angry white people. Also, I'm not a big fan of Harleys! more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Look, every place in America where Sarah Palin has a book signing will be, by default, the dumbest/craziest place in America. Until tomorrow, when sh... more » MissNormaDesmond: Maureen? Did you perhaps notice at any point that Obama won, and Palin lost? Why the fuck should he be taking tips from her? more » AliHajiSheik: What kind of spending would you like to see cut? All of it. Seriously? Those bombs you want to drop on brown people aren't free fucko. more » daveyjonesisdead: Do any of them understand that Sarah jogs? Could any of them possibly emulate that? Because that would do a lot more for their quality of life than an... more » Claire Buoyant: Gotta wonder about people who wear camouflage to a bookstore. more » -
#columnists
Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
Maureen Dowd, this weekend: Obama should try to be "dynamic" like Sarah Palin, instead of all this "dithering" and bowing. Today, Ross Douthat writes a "reality-based" column on more or less the same topic! More » -
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Dowd: Just Let Girly Obama Be a Manly Man!
What do you do when you write a million columns unsubtly disparaging a man as feminine, and then it turns out that he talks sports and golfs exclusively with men? If you're Maureen Dowd, you just crank out another column. More » -
#genderpolitics
Fallen Portfolio Editor Joanne Lipman's Self-Serving Feminism Screed: 9/11, Sissies, Etc.
Remember Portfolio? The nearly stillborn Conde publication's fallen editor Joanne Lipman's back, with an editorial for Sunday's Times entitled "The Mismeasure Of Woman," where she argues that feminism's stalled out. Great, except: it's inaccurate, intellectually offensive, and gratingly pompous.
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Topical Maureen Dowd Pop Culture Reference Of the Day
Today, Pulitzer-winning New York Times political columnist Maureen Dowd answers the question, "what would you hear if Dick Cheney put you on hold?" The answer may surprise you! More » -
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Dancing DeLay Makes MoDo Feel Funny
The heart of Maureen Dowd's political philosophy is that Republican men are masculine and tough and Democratic men are big pussies. So what will she do now that Tom "The Hammer" DeLay is dancing on television? More » -
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Maureen Dowd Hates Bloggers
Oh, good. Times op-ed mean girl Maureen Dowd wrote a column about people writing mean things on the internet. And she quotes Leon Wieseltier! More » -
#herogram
How Grace Coddington Stole The September Issue from Anna Wintour
When Anna Wintour agreed to the Vogue documentary The September Issue, she probably thought it would be the greatest stop on the Make-People-Like-Me-Before-My-Contract-Is-Up Tour 2009. Too bad she is cast as the villain to Grace Coddington's triumphant hero. More » -
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Faced With Palin, MoDo Suddenly Finds Hillary Likable
Maureen Dowd has discovered that Sarah Palin actually embodies most of the misogynist stereotypes that Maureen Dowd has traditionally attributed to Hillary Clinton. More » -
#injustice
New York Times: Do As I Say, Not as I Dowd
Today's New York Times contains a lengthy Editor's Note explaining that Charles Siebert "unwittingly incorporated" language from an e-mail into his Times Magazine story last Sunday. Sounds familiar, right? Except when Maureen Dowd does it, it's no big deal. More » -
#hollywood
Aaron Sorkin Rides in on a White Horse to Save Moneyball
Aaron Sorkin, noted scribe, addict and boner of Maureen Dowd and Kristen Chenoweth, has been hired to write a new draft of Moneyball, the film based on Michael Lewis' bestselling book. But are Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt still involved? More » -
#scandal
Small Town Newspaper Intern Canned For Plagiarizing New York Times
An intern at the Colorado Springs Gazette has been fired for lifting passages from the New York Times and placing them in stories she wrote for the newspaper. More » -
#marksanford
Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Maureen Dowd fired up her patented pop-culture-meets-political-sideshow engine again yesterday to explore the resonances between The Holiday, the 2006 Cameron Diaz movie that Dowd thinks Mark Sanford recommended via e-mail to his Argentinian paramour, and Sanford's life. Wrong Holiday, MoDo. More » -
#mediajobs
Dan Abrams Is Looking For Fresh Meat
Dan Abrams is soon launching Mediaite, his very own "Drudge meets Huffington Post," which he'll certainly use to promote clients of his endlessly shady PR firm. He's now looking for contributors who, like him, have no qualms about selling out. More » -
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Credit-Crunched Times' Writer Edmund Andrews Responds To Sketchiness Allegations
New York Times economics reporter Edmund Andrews has responded to The Atlantic's Megan McArdle's takedown of him for glossing over important details in his "I'm broke!" Times piece. It's an ugly scene.
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Maureen Dowd's Column Today 100% MoDo
Misunderstood Times columnist Maureen Dowd got in trouble for not rewriting something her friend emailed her from a blog, so today's column is something only MoDo could've written. More » -
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Josh Marshall Addresses Maureen Dowd's 'Accidental Plagiarism'
On Sunday Maureen Dowd lifted a passage from a blog post by TPM's Josh Marshall and used it in her Times column without attribution, something she claimed was accidental. Finally, Marshall has addressed the matter. More » -
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The New York Times Plays by Blog Rules. When It Wants!
Maureen Dowd will get off penalty-free for (she says) accidentally plagiarizing a paragraph of Josh Marshall's material. Fine by us! Can the New York Times stop pretending the internet is ripping it off, now? More » -
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Maureen Dowd Admits to an Act of Accidental Plagiarism
Yesterday we learned that an entry in Maureen Dowd's Sunday Times column appeared to be lifted straight from a blog post by TPM's Josh Marshall on Thursday. Last night, Dowd admitted to plagiarizing Marshall. More »
