Maureen Dowd

Defend Your Ballot: Caitlin White, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Live from New York... It's Mitt Romney?

This has to happen. In what could be one of the most interesting Saturday Night Live episodes in recent memory, it has been reported that Lorne Michaels, the producer of the legendary sketch comedy show, has offered the Romney tent a chance for their candidate to show off his comedic flare ... More >>

Jill Abramson's 'Puppy Diaries': We've Got an Advance Copy

Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, is a huge dog lover. How huge? She blogged about her adorable golden retriever puppy Scout on nytimes.com and she's coming out with a book this month, The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout, also known as Jill Abramson's God Damn Puppy Boo ... More >>

Maureen Dowd: Obama Is "Bi"

​Interesting column from Maureen Dowd this weekend, about Barack Obama. It starts off "He was born this way. Bi." Are you shuddering in anticipation yet, thinking that she will make some kind of awful biracial joke? Thankfully, she doesn't, although she had me on the edge of my seat waiting for it ... More >>

New York Times Traffic Down 24% From Paywall; Erik Wemple to Washington Post

​Lately the New York Times has lost a few of its star writers including legendary critic and columnist Frank Rich and foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins, along with a handful of others, and although people change jobs all the time and for a variety of reasons, the timing was enough to make u ... More >>

Donald Trump Says He Saved the New York Daily News, Claims He's Tight With 'Blacks'

​Our country's current, most fake president candidate, the billionaire Donald Trump, won't shut up. Though the media is mostly playing his games, reporting on all of the dumb shit he says -- with the exception of the New York Observer, but that's complicated -- he also benefits from starting s ... More >>

Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert Leaves New York Times as Departures Continue Before Paywall

​A New York Times veteran of nearly two decades, Bob Herbert is leaving the Op-Ed page, the paper announced in a memo on Friday. Saturday will be his last column. Herbert's resignation comes in the wake of Frank Rich's departure for New York magazine after nearly three-decades in various roles ... More >>

Sarah Palin Getting the Silent Treatment For February

​By one man at least: Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used his column space at the end of last week as an opportunity for mild self-flagellation, admitting that since the 2008 election, he has written about Sarah Palin in 42 column and in "dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radi ... More >>

Obama's Busted Lip, Willie Nelson's Weed Arrest & More of What You Missed While in a Food Coma

​Everyone knows Thanksgiving is a two-day holiday. The first is for eating and drinking and fighting with your family. (Maybe you go to the movies at night, that's okay too.) The second is for eating and drinking more, preferably leftovers with people you like, friends or the favorite family m ... More >>

The Parker/Spitzer Liveblog!

​Parker/Spitzer, the biggest thing to happen to CNN since Larry King farted on Octomom, is finally here. Our former governor Eliot Spitzer and his foil, the saucy Putlizer-prize winning conservative columnist, Kathleen Parker, are about to go on the air.

In Which We Run Maureen Dowd's Column Through a "Talk Like a Pirate Day" Translator

Maureen Dowd, Garrr​Did you read Maureen Dowd's column in Sunday's New York Times? It's about the masturbation-hating, sometimes witch Christine O'Donnell, who if we keep talking about, will probably become a U.S. Senator. O'Donnell, however, is the perfect character for a Dowd column, and the ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Shirley Sherrod: "You Fucked up -- You Trusted Us!"

You may have heard something about former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod last week. She's the civil-rights veteran who got forced out of her job after rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart released a video of her remarks before the NAACP, edited to make her look anti-white. You may also have heard ... More >>

National Enquirer Recycling Obama Sex Scandal, Powered By John Edwards Goodwill

​Did President Barack Obama have an affair with Vera Baker, a campaign aide on his run for Senate in 2004? Definitely (maybe), says the National Enquirer! Probably, says the Drudge Report, amid vivid Vietnam-style flashbacks while muttering "Lewinsky" repeatedly. Everyone else is hedging their ... More >>

10 Ways the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Newspaper War Could Get Uglier

The fight between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times has started! And while we wait to find out if anyone actually gives a shit, we couldn't help but already notice just how ugly it's been so far. And now, the potential for dirty competition beyond this thing's current condition! Just ho ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's New Kitchen Nightmare; Big Meals Cooked in Small Places

​Julie Powell, who wrote the book Julie & Julia, on which the movie is based, isn't the only New Yorker with a tiny kitchen. Other home cooks-cum-food writers/bloggers cook big meals in tiny spaces everyday. [NY Daily News] Iron Chef contestant Aaron Sanchez --also the chef at Centrico and Pa ... More >>

Interview: MSNBC's Willie Geist on New York Baseball, His Jeter Love, His Desire to Drill Pedroia, and More

​ We're pleased to see that our Morning Joe favorite Willie Geist has finally been given his own TV show. Way Too Early With Willie Geist now leads off MSNBC's morning schedule, airing (if one "airs" on cable) at 5:30 a.m. (That's 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, where the show is no doubt known as Wa ... More >>

Sotomayor Hearings, Expected Confirmation a Conservative Triumph, Say Rightbloggers

Seen from a normal perspective, the Sotomayor hearings had to be a disappointment to rightbloggers. She appears on course to be confirmed (Conservative Crusader saw the writing on the wall even by Monday: "RACIST ANTI-CONSTITUTION SOTOMAYOR TO BE CONFIRMED TO SCOTUS"). And despite some hard quest ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 26 through December 2

Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to Dubya's M.O. In W.

But at this point, who cares? (Other than Josh Brolin.)

What We Learned about the Election in This Summer's Movies

From the multiplex to the stump: It's caped crusader versus community organizer, and the end is nigh

The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama

Looking back on his first term

Women Politicos Ponder Clinton's Next Move

Imus Silenced

Bush Admits He Was 'Wrong'

But his speech doesn't account for the administration's heavy hand in spinning faulty intelligence

Single, Female—And Over 40

Women of a certain, sexy age are at their erotic peak

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

Quit Lit

Chick lit spawns a subgenre: Job Horror

The Day of the Jackals

Mythmaking at the Republican convention and getting punk'd on Kudlow and Cramer

It's All Over But the Shouting in New York Next Month

Veep as Vamp

Bush surrogates sissify John Edwards. But will it backfire? Plus: What did Whoopi say?

Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

Tropes of the Times

When Did Inside and Outside Get So Chummy?

Poor Memorial

Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

The Ordeal of Charles Pickering

Are Times Editorials Fact-Checked?

They're Back

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sequels?

Reason to Deceive

WMD Lies Could Be the New Watergate

History Redux

War Over, and the 'Times' Welcomes Boys

The Facts: Schumer v. Pickering

Glaring Racial Insensitivity?

Howellin' Wolf

'Times' Hounds Bush Over War Plan

Improbable Cause

Pundits Square Off Over Secret Tribunals

Irony on the Rise

The 'Times' Strikes a Pose

The Absent Alpha

In a Race Between Two Filial Men, Women Will Decide Who Is the Beloved Son

Krugman Takes On ‘Seattle Man’

The Times’s Crusade Against Ralph Nader

Swinging With McSweeney's

Brooklyn Net Zine Changes Partners—Or Does It?

Nation

Down With Alpha Males!

A Top Man Is Not a Leader

Tobacco Row

Hiding Her Cards

Every time Gerry Ferraro runs for office, she is caught in the crosshairs of her husband's sleazy business practices. Now she's positioned herself for casino gold by dumping the partner who found her Foxwoods deal.