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Mean Maureen, Queen of Spleen.

This week, Mean Maureen, Queen of Spleen, pounded away at yet another column that like so many others, should have been titled: “Knock, Knock, it’s Sarah Palin! Or, better yet: Knock Knock Sarah Palin. Once again she yapped on about Sarah’s hunting adventures. Haven’t we all heard enough From Maureen and the NY Times about how [...]

With Friends Like Daniel Craig, Who Needs Enemies?

Today, Maureen Dowd bemoans the fate of White House counsel Greg Craig, “dumped” by Obama, after helping Obama get elected by eviscerating Craig’s close friend, Clinton White House colleague and Yale classmate, Hillary Clinton. During the bitter 2008 Democratic primary, Craig told the press Hillary had exaggerated her foreign policy experience and didn’t pass “the [...]

Maureen Dowd, Card Shark. Race Card Shark.

Maureen Dowd Raps Joe Wilson's Knuckles

The title of Mean Maureen’s column today: Rapping Joe’s Knuckles.

If the Senate wants to censor Joe Wilson for calling President Obama a liar, at a joint session of congress, you won’t catch me crying over it. But if we’re going to argue about restoring civility to our public discourse, [...]

Boy, Oh Boy, Maureen! A Recipe For A Smear.

In her column today, Maureen twists the truth about Congressman Joe Wilson’s outburst during a joint session of Congress, when he yelled at The President, “you lie!” Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t approve of what he did. But he did apologize and the White House accepted his apology.

But Mean Maureen needs a cat-fight [...]

Anna Wintour Dodges Maureen Dowd’s Bullet!

Someone check Maureen Dowd for a pulse! Maybe take her temperature. Does she need a nice rejuvenating bowl of chicken soup? As we all know, she positively glows when using her bully pulpit at the Times to attack a powerful woman. Today’s prey is Anna Wintour. But Dowd seems uncharacteristically ambivalent about the attack. Mean [...]

Maureen Dowd, ARE YOU LISTENING?

Laugh out loud! Below is a comment posted to the Judith Warner column (see previous post) at the Times website. It seems that every third comment mentions Maureen Dowd’s endlessly shrill, tiresome, repetitive shrieking. But this one made me burst out laughing. Thank you Marc Farre, whoever you are. I invite you to guest post [...]

Coming Soon! Mean Maureen Dowd!

Slap on your Hazmat suits and join me Next Friday, August 21st for the big debut of my new section dedicated to the bile spewing columnist, Mean Maureen Dowd. I just read a piece by Times columnist Judith Warner about how the press trivializes Hillary Clinton by treating everything she does as entertainment. Note to [...]