For One Night, Maureen Dowd Is Inaugural Social Queen

How things have changed! Vanity Fair editor Todd Purdum, once the thrower of fabulous celebrity political parties, has been upstaged by a new hostess. That would be Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

How things have changed! Vanity Fair editor Todd Purdum, once the thrower of fabulous celebrity political parties, has been upstaged by a new hostess. That would be Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

In this week's New Yorker, Ben McGrath profiles Mayhill Fowler, the woman who became famous for fifteen minutes after crashing the private party at which Obama let slip his infamous "bitter" comment about angry white proles with guns (but she supports him!). She then doubled-down for a full half hour after she …
Bill Clinton has become an embarrassment to his party, friends, and family, with his tone-deaf angry tirades and bizarre rhetorical missteps and also his habit of globe-trotting with scummy over-sexed billionaires. But if you tell him this, he becomes quite angry! Todd Purdum, who, despite being married to a former…