Maureen Dowd

The Reader's Guide to Maureen Dowd

August 4, 2008 - This week Maureen Dowd returned to one her ol' standbys for her column: "Pride and Prejudice." That's right, as you've probably guessed, Barack Obama is Mr. Darcy. Just be thankful she didn't trot out her Tracy and Hepburn references this time. But there were, as always, lots...

The Reader's Guide to Maureen Dowd

July 1, 2008 - Did you see the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton event in New Hampshire? If you didn't, don't fret, because Maureen Dowd, or at least Maureen Dowd's Assistant, did. Anything important happen at the event? We don't know, but we can say it provided Dowd with a perfect...

From The Feed: Joe Scarborough admits Republicans are elites, but not, you know, elite elites (video)

June 25, 2008 - On "Morning Joe", Joe Scarborough walks into an elite shit storm...

A reader's guide to Maureen Dowd

June 9, 2008 - Barack Obama may have won the Democratic nomination, but no political event is really over until Maureen Dowd has weighed in to help us make sense of it all with her penetrating insight. And shockingly, it turns out she's got strong, albeit incoherent, feelings about Hillary Clinton. Her latest...

Maureen Dowd: a reader's guide

June 2, 2008 - Finally, Maureen Dowd has weighed in on Scott McClellan's book. But we don't need to tell you that—naturally by now you've read her insightful commentary on it in Sunday's New York Times. But how well do you know your MoDo? Her analysis is so...

Maureen Dowd: Reader's Guide

May 28, 2008 - It's that time again: the time when America's Most Important Columnist uses her considerable insight to help us make our most important decision. We're talking, of course, about Maureen Dowd. Yesterday's valuable installment was one of our favorite Dowd genres: when she goes into dialogue and...

Maureen Dowd: The Reader's Guide

May 15, 2008 - The West Virginia primary is over, but what does it all mean? For that, of course, a nation turns to Maureen Dowd. Her political insight and analysis has proven invaluable during past elections, and we expect no less from her with this one. There's a war on, we're...

Know Your Maureen Dowd: a quiz

May 12, 2008 - The Democratic race for the nomination isn't over yet, and that means there's just a little bit of time left to enjoy Maureen Dowd's deliciously delightlful and insightful sing-song cheap shots analysis. Her latest column doesn't disappoint. For instance, did you know that Hillary s...

From The Room: Maureen Dowd's HCTV

April 15, 2008 - Maureen Dowd is again facing criticism that she is obsessed with Hillary Clinton. To dispel these allegations, Dowd...

23/6 Week in review—slideshow edition

April 4, 2008 - Gather 'round the family. For our current "Week in review," simply click on the links in the slideshow captions to access a few of our top stories during this past week. Go on, it won't hurt...

Maureen Dowd: Explained

March 31, 2008 - Is the election starting to wear you down? Never fear, because you've got Maureen Dowd twice a week to boil the entire thing down to harmless wordplay. Sunday Maureen made the point that Hillary Clinton is like Dorothy and Barack Obama is black. That's right, it was high...

Maureen Dowd: Distilled

March 26, 2008 - If it's Wednesday that means it's...Dowd-Day. Today's installment did not feature a lot of CLADPAWs (Classic Dowd Pointless Antiphonal Wordplay), though we did get "While the cool cat's away, the Hillary mice wi...

Quick Quiz: Hillary Clinton

March 24, 2008 - With Hillary Clinton clinging to the sinking ship of her campaign like a barnacle, Paul Slansky has some questions about a woman he didn't used to dislike as much as he now does...

From The Room: Dinner Parties Expand to Accommodate the Late Breaking News

March 12, 2008 - They're attributing our current fatigue to having just moved our clocks ahead, but my thesis is we're all staying up later as dinner parties stretch out to cover the wide range of topics unfolding on what feels like an hourly basis. Over drinks and appetizers in the living...

Maureen Dowd: phrases so tortured, waterboarding's got nothing on 'em

February 6, 2008 - Maureen Dowd: she hates politics, she hates politicians (except the odd "tough guy"; she has a thing for fake "tough guys") and yet stays in a job in which she has to write about...politics. What to do? She could become bitter. Or she could use that legendary wit for...