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more about #maureendowd clickable: She needs to resign. She doesn't seem to be able to grasp what her job is about conceptually, much less in practice. A Harvard MBA is certainly valuab... more » PhillyLass: How is it that Maureen Dowd is a columnist for the nation's paper of record and not for, say, Us Weekly? I get more insightful commentary from those a... more » pantsless economist...access RESTORED: I'm starting to think the party crashers were sent by Senator Inhofe and Sarah Palin to cause a media storm and distract us from Copenhagen and health... more » History Major: And even after all the hooplah I would still let her plan my parties. more » likepenguins: I long for the day when Maureen Dowd will finally STFU. I plan to celebrate by wearing designer clothes that I can afford because I have a nice-payin... more » midwestdesigner: This kind of underlying racism is what I grew up with in the Southern Midwest. It wasn't all n-words and Confederate flags. Instead, it was this insid... more » rodmanstreet: It's probably not a good idea to hire Will Ferrell's character in Austin Powers 2 as social secretary. The White House needs someone who won't give i... more » individa: Huh. Tiger Woods, Desiree Rogers, and Derek Jeter. Interesting what the criteria were to be included in this particular group of people as far as "hop... more » bluebears: Dowd is the worst. Practically everything she writes makes me seethe, which is why I just stopped reading her. However sometimes rage-making quotes po... more » Ruby_de_la_Booby: The Secret Service announced 91 breaches going back to 1980. My question is, "Where was Ms. Rogers sashaying around back in 1983?" WHERE??? more » Penny: Woods to Rogers? That is one curvy, half-erased line, smeared line. more » Acquanetta: Anyways? more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: ...because what I want in a president is low self-esteem? #maureendowd more » morninggloria: Rush Limbaugh reminds me so much of John Wayne Gacy. I can't look at him without thinking that his house is full of clown accessories and stashed vic... more » sportz.star: Oh Maureen, every time I think I'm quitting you because you've jumped the shark with your nicknames and critiques that infantalize in ways that just b... more » NefariousNewt: Oooooooooo... BUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNNNNN!!! #maureendowd more » nyc-caribbean-ragazza: "Now Limbaugh calls Obama the "man-child president." The 48-year-old Obama is skinny and getting skinnier, but there’s nothing childish about him. ... more » Raised-byHeathens: We may not be able to say anything about the addiction itself, but the scoring drugs from your maid just makes me think of a fifteen year old yuppie d... more » BearDownCBears: Conservatism means never having to say you're sorry. #maureendowd more » frankie22: Hey Maureen - if you want to snark on this guy, there's an abundance of character flaws to choose from. Laughing at someone's battle with addiction is... more » -
#rogerthat
"Lots Of People Just Come Anyways, They Won't Take No For An Answer"
That's embattled White House social secretary Desiree Rogers talking about party crashers - in July. Before everyone decided she was a combination of Icarus, Marie Antoinette and Goody Good, and Maureen Dowd got the chance to be adorably witty! More » -
#notablequotable
Oh Snap: Dowd On Limbaugh
"[H]e ripped the president for having 'an out-of-this-world ego,' for being 'very narcissistic,' 'immature, inexperienced, in over his head.' (Isn't immaturity scoring OxyContin from your maid?) It gives new meaning to pot, kettle and black." [NYT] -
#personalfoul
Maureen Dowd, Sports, & The Perils Of Slamming Sexism
Yesterday we noted that female bloggers are frequently subject to comments about their sex lives. Of course, this happens to women in old media as well — as evinced by one conservative writer's vicious and lame takedown of Maureen Dowd. More » -
#breakaleg
Tom Cat
Tom DeLay to the Times' Maureen Dowd: "I'm being more feminine and a little prissy...My brain is telling my hips, ‘We don't do that.' ...This is exposing your soul." And what a sorry soul it is. [NYTimes] -
#maureendowner
Enough With This Crap About Women's Unhappiness
According to about nine bajillion recent trend pieces, women these days are really unhappy. Now Maureen Dowd's getting in on the act — and I'm officially sick of it.
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#whitenoise
What Is The Deal With Glenn Beck's Racism?
During one of his compulsive rants about the discrimination of white people on today's show, Glenn Beck went off on Maureen Dowd for her op-ed piece in which she wished for more cultural diversity at the recent town hall meetings. -
#crappyhour
Tales Of Schadenfreude & Sniping From McCain/Palin Campaign Continue
We just can't get enough when it comes to witnessing Republicans eating their own! Luckily, there's more news on that front, so, this morning, the HuffPo's Jason Linkins and I gleefully review the latest, greatest backbiting tearing apart the GOP. More » -
#dowdy
Oops, She Did It Again
Commenter "scarletbegonia" was frighteningly prescient on Friday when she wrote: "Shakespeare is the new Jane Austen of nonsensical comparisons. (I'm talking to you, Maureen Dowd)." And then, two days later, this. [NY Times] -
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#crappyhour
Chris Rock's Daughters Want To Be BFF With The Obama Girls
To try to come in like a lamb and go out like a lion, today Ana Marie Cox and I talk puppies, pedicures, Elvira, Bill Kristol, and the death of journalism. Do lions cry?


