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Maureen Dowd stories: 37 news summaries

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MAUREEN DOWD

 Obama Emerges 
 From White (Frat) House 

Now Dowd wants to play him at Scrabble

Oct 28, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turns out Tom Friedman played golf with President Obama last month—and fellow New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd isn't ashamed to admit she felt "a twinge of envy." Dowd's happy that Obama finally invited a woman to join him on the links this weekend, after catching heat... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • golf • sexism • Maureen Dowd • President • Geraldine Ferraro • Melody Barnes

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Maybe Sports Betting
Can Save Newspapers

Desperate times require desperate solutions, some say

Oct 21, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - With newspapers sinking deeper into trouble by the day, Maureen Dowd explores the idea of saving the day with a little vice. Specifically, allowing papers to rake in money by setting up online sports betting on their websites. Dowd herself isn't pushing it, but she has fun kicking it around... More »

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betting • Maureen Dowd • sports betting • online betting • newspaper industry

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 C'mon, Dave 
 Letterman Is 
 No Bill Clinton 

And he's no Clarence Thomas, either. He didn't harass—or lie.

Oct 7, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - These days you can't drink and smoke in the office like the ad execs on Mad Men, but when it comes to affairs with young women, working men are still living in the 1960s, writes Maureen Dowd. David Letterman is only the latest boss to fall for the interns and... More »

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entertainment • sex scandal • blackmail • affair • Maureen Dowd • David Letterman • intern • Late Show • Robert Halderman • Stephanie Birkitt

(Newser) - America is getting to see a whole different side of Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars, and he wants you to know it's the real Tom DeLay. Maureen Dowd chats up the man once dubbed the “meanest man in Congress” and ponders the meaning of his transformation.... More »

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entertainment • reality TV • Dancing with the Stars • Tom DeLay • Maureen Dowd • interview • tango

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP


 Wilson: 'I Am 
 Not Going to 
 Apologize 
 Again' 

Gibbs denies Obama opposition motivated by race

Sep 13, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Responding to threats by Democrats demanding he apologize to President Obama on the House floor, Rep. Joe Wilson was adamant today: “I am not going to apologize again.” The South Carolina Republican told Fox News Sunday, “I apologized to the president on Wednesday night. I believe... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • race • Claire McCaskill • Maureen Dowd • Lindsey Graham • Joe Wilson

(Newser) - Mark Sanford’s affair stemmed from his love of a woman—and his love of the “dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. Mark, the Sanford we knew, “was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed... More »

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South Carolina • Republican Party • affair • Maureen Dowd • hypocrisy • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford

OPINION

 Fly Strike 
 Shows Another 
 Side to Prez 



No 'negotiation' in direct smack

Jun 21, 09 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s precision fly-swatting has caught the nation’s attention—perhaps because it showed a surprisingly forceful approach, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. “Some Americans fear that President Obama is too prone to negotiation, comity and splitting the difference,” Dowd notes. “This moment... More »

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bug • negotiation • Maureen Dowd • insects • President Obama • fly

(Newser) - Karl Rove fired back today at Maureen Dowd for criticizing former President Bush’s frequent vacation time in Texas, Politico reports. “I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times,” Rove told Fox News, “who misses no opportunity to show... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • New York Times • Fox News • Maureen Dowd • columnists • George W. Bush

Marshall: Back Off Plagiarism Charges

Dowd's mistake unintentional, says author of original line

May 19, 09 10:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo isn't joining the chorus of critics against Maureen Dowd, who admitted she inadvertently lifted one of Marshall's lines in her weekend column. "I generally think we're too quick to pull the trigger with charges of plagiarism," writes Marshall. "Whatever the mechanics... More »

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plagiarism • Maureen Dowd • columnists • Talking Points Memo • Josh Marshall

Dowd Sorry for 'Plagiarizing' Liberal Blog

Says Josh Marshall passage came unattributed from a pal

May 18, 09 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fans of Talking Points Memo did a doubletake when they got to a passage in Maureen Dowd's column yesterday on the timing of Bush use of torture; Josh Marshall had written the same thing—short of three words—three days back. Dowd has corrected her column online, and the New ... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • plagiarism • blog • Maureen Dowd • Talking Points Memo • op-ed

OPINION

 Key Twitter Myths Debunked 

A guide to what Twitter isn't

May 6, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The whole country may be having a love affair with Twitter, but a great many people are missing the point, argues blog Seldo.com. Among the things Twitter isn't:
  1. A replacement for email. "Idiot" Maureen Dowd's New York Times column was "entirely missing the point."
... More »

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Google • blogging • Oprah Winfrey • Maureen Dowd • Ashton Kutcher • Twitter • rumors

OPINION

Edwardses
Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades
privacy for payback

May 6, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • Maureen Dowd • infidelity • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • betrayal

OPINION

 Dowd: GOP 
 Has Short 
 Memory 

'Quaint' calls for balance follow reign of 'Boy Emperor'

May 3, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As their party contracts with the defection of Arlen Specter, the GOP is complaining about a disappearing balance of power: “How quaint,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times—this from the party whose “arrogant” previous administration “did its best to undermine checks and balances.... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Condoleezza Rice • Arlen Specter • Constitution • Maureen Dowd • professor • waterboarding • George W. Bush • President Obama • balance of power

OPINION

 Obama Plays Shrink 
 to Europe: Dowd 

President brings "psychological finesse" to the G20

Apr 5, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Therapists could learn a thing or two from the "psychological finesse" Barack Obama showed in Europe this week, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Obama's upbringing taught him how to "slip in and out of different worlds," and that legacy was on display... More »

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Barack Obama • psychiatry • Nicolas Sarkozy • Maureen Dowd • Silvio Berlusconi • Dmitry Medvedev • psychologist • George W. Bush • G20

Old Gray Lady Grabs Obama
by the Ear

Krugman, Friedman, Dowd, Rich, editorial board all pile on prez

Mar 22, 09 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration bore an avalanche of criticism this weekend from the usually friendly New York Times. Influential columnists Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Thomas Friedman, and Maureen Dowd—plus the paper’s editorial board—all piled on a president who “is increasingly overwhelmed, and not fully appreciative of the... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • security • editorial • Maureen Dowd • Frank Rich • AIG • bonuses • Thomas Friedman • columnists • Paul Krugman • newspaper editorials • blog posts • Obama administration

OPINION

 Hey, Barack: 
 Get Tough 
 Like Michelle 

Prez, Geithner must quit 'coddling' Wall Street: Dowd

Mar 22, 09 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama said her husband would be pulling garden weeds whether he “liked it or not”—and the president could take a page from her book, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. Obama and the Treasury secretary “have been coddling the Wall Street elite,”... More »

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Wall Street • Michelle Obama • Maureen Dowd • AIG • Obama administration • President Obama • Timothy Geithner

OPINION

 'Oedipally 
 Oddball W' 
 Makes His 
 Long Exit 



While Bush hated doubt, Obama's 'delighted' by it

Jan 18, 09 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush’s insecurity and aversion to doubt—“the psychological traits of an asphyxiated and pampered son”—led to his botched presidency, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Rather than being a source of presidential insight on Iraq and Saddam, Bush’s father was relegated... More »

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Barack Obama • presidency • simplicity • Bush legacy • George HW Bush • Maureen Dowd • George W. Bush • doubt • President Obama

Obama Meets With Lefty
Media Pundits

Convo with liberals follows dinner with conservatives

Jan 14, 09 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama recalibrated his bipartisan scale today, CNN reports, meeting with liberal commentators a day after convening with conservative writers at columnist George Will's home. The left-leaners included Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich of the New York Times and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Obama aides remain mum about both off-the-record... More »

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Barack Obama • Maureen Dowd • Frank Rich • American media • columnists • Rachel Maddow • liberal media • President Obama • conservative media • Bill Maher Grid

opinion

Cheney Deserves
Kick in the Shins: Dowd


'Vice is still on top'

Jan 11, 09 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney's guiding principle was "a theory of constitutional thuggishness" that set the tone for the administration's agenda—but he's refusing to take the blame for anything, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. His insistence that he never called the shots, despite his "Darth... More »

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Dick Cheney • Darth Vader • Maureen Dowd • George W. Bush • Office of the Vice President

OPINION

 Dowd: Bring in 
 Obama's Cleaning Crew 

Obama can restore the capital's brilliance, writes Times columnist

Nov 6, 08 8:11 AM CST
(Newser) - For Maureen Dowd, the election of Barack Obama means more than just an end to the Bush years; it's a chance for Washington itself to regain its moral standing. Outside the White House on election night—"there was no U-Haul in the driveway"—the New York Times columnist... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • White House • constitution • monument • Maureen Dowd • Abraham Lincoln • President Obama

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