In an interview Thursday, self-tanning enthusiast Donald Trump tried to clarify some of his recent positions on abortion. The Washington Post reports that when asked whether or not he’s ever dated a woman who had an abortion, Trump replied, “the answer is no.”
In the New York Times’ most recent “Sunday Review,” columnist Maureen Dowd continued her decades-long professional criticism of Hillary Clinton under the guise of defending female empowerment. Very brave!
Vulture is reporting that HBO has ordered a pilot based on a Maureen Dowd book that will star Whitney Cummings. The book in question is 2005’s “ruckus raising” Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide.
Health officials in the state of Colorado have recommended outlawing edible pot products in the state. I'm choosing to place 100% of the blame for this on the famously un-chill Maureen Dowd.
Today, the New York Times ran an opinion piece by Maureen Dowd that quoted New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray as saying some kinda anti-lesbian stuff about candidate (and lesbian) Christine Quinn's ability to relate to other women. But it turns out that what Dowd said McCray said…
There sure have been a lot of newly minted Islam experts popping up in the past week — and in the places you'd least expect them. Fox News, the woman at the New York Times whose classical Greek references have devolved from incisive to dodderingly inscrutable, and several typically myopic conservative news outlets are…
They've been divorced for longer than Justin Bieber has been alive (or so it seems) but the besmirched union of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt still has the ability to tickle us in that spot like no ruined marriage has been able to since. So of course when we hear a story about poor ol' "baby-mad" Jen being advised to…
Your average National Security Council Staffer probably does not attract the level of attention Samantha Power has. True, Power was already a star at her particular crossroads of human rights activism, journalism and academia, winning a Pulitzer long before she had a four-hour dinner with a young Senator named Barack…
Talley would welcome a lesbian commander-in-chief, especially if she resembled Julie Andrews, wore "ankle-length skirts, grazing the Manolo Blahnik kitten heels," and kept her "butch trouser suit for weekends at Camp David." Also: "No plaid lumberjack shirts at any time."
Palin doesn't "think I've ever met that gal, Maureen Dowd — O'Dowd — whatever the heck her name is," but disputed MoDo's Mean Girls column by defending the "wonderful, pleasant, gracious, nice, hard-working mama grizzlies." Catfight! Fake pregnancy rumors!
How far have we come? Well, now we get paragraph after paragraph of perfunctory caveats and qualifiers before columnist and new CNN host Kathleen Parker calls our president a pussy.
"When does a woman go from being single to unmarried?" asks Austen-lover and NYT scribe Maureen Dowd. And why do we stigmitize Kagan? For all we know she's a super-hot cougar bachelorette!
It's rather unconvincing, from her wardrobe notes on Prince Saud al-Faisal to the usual campy rhetorical flourishes ("Wahhabism, anyone?"; the Prince "sounding like a Saudi Garbo"), substituting for analysis, to an underreported gloss over Israeli women's rights. Team Gail. [NYT]
"He was drop-dead gorgeous," says one booker who succumbed to the senator's youthful looks and "excellent hands." (See his modeling portfolio here!) And oh! Guess who else is smitten?
Vivienne Westwood's menswear show on Sunday featured models in frostbitten makeup carrying bed rolls and pushing shopping carts down the runway. It also made us ponder the evolution of the curious (and strangely recurrent) trend known as "homeless chic."
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!
"[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]
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.
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]
