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</div><div><b>New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd continued her nearly 23-year long crusade against Hillary Clinton </b>with a column accusing her of “compromis[ing] the president” and “willfully put[ting] herself above the rules.” </div><div>
</div><div>Dowd wrote a July 9 column, titled “The Clinton Contamination,” admonishing Clinton after FBI Director James Comey called her private email server “extremely careless” but recommended no charges for criminal conduct -- the Justice Department accepted those recommendations. In her column, Dowd called Clinton’s actions “arrogant” and “selfish” and said she “contaminated three of the purest brands in Washington -- Barack Obama, James Comey, and Loretta Lynch,” continuing that “Hillary’s goo got on Obama.” Dowd concluded that “the Clintons work hard but don’t play by the rules.” Dowd lamented that “the email scandal” had supposedly “clouded the futures” of some of the most trusted Clinton aides, and derisively referred to former President Bill Clinton as “the Arkansas devil.”</div><div>
</div><div>A Media Matters analysis of Dowd’s columns found that 72 percent of her work between November 1993 and June 2014 included negative tropes against the Clintons, including regularly portraying Hillary Clinton as an unlikeable, power-hungry phony. In the year following, all 17 of Dowd’s columns with significant mentions of Clinton were negative. Dowd regularly relies on sexist tropes to describe Clinton, including that she is a “granny” who “can’t figure out how to campaign as a woman” and suggesting she “should have run as a man” during the 2016 election. Hypocritically, Dowd has also accused her of “cry[ing] sexism too often.” </div><div>
</div><div>Even Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, mocked Dowd’s column, tweeting, “Congratulations! This is the 7,673rd time Maureen Dowd has written this column! What a gig!”</div><div>
</div><div> Follow</div><div> Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein</div><div>Congratulations! This is the 7,673rd time Maureen Dowd has written this column! What a gig! https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/751913993963466752 …</div><div>4:11 PM - 9 Jul 2016</div><div>  515 515 Retweets   950 950 likes</div><div>16 Times The Media Let Trump Falsely Claim He Opposed The Iraq War From The Beginning</div><div>Research ››› May 5, 2016 9:49 AM EDT ››› ALEX KAPLAN, NICK FERNANDEZ & CYDNEY HARGIS</div><div>
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</div><div>Media figures and outlets have repeatedly pushed the myth, or allowed Donald Trump to push the myth, that he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. There is no evidence to support this claim and February reporting from BuzzFeed News showed Trump voiced support “for invading Iraq” in 2002 and termed it a "tremendous success" after the invasion began.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>BuzzFeed’s Editor-In-Chief Slams Media For Giving Credence To Trump’s Lie He Opposed Invasion Of Iraq</b></div><div>Blog ››› May 3, 2016 6:18 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF</div><div>
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</div><div>BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith lambasted media outlets and reporters for allowing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to “lie to their face” about his opposition to the invasion of Iraq, ignoring the evidence showing that in 2002 Trump supported the invasion of Iraq.</div><div>
</div><div>Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed throughout the GOP presidential primaries that he opposed the Iraq invasion, using his alleged opposition to attack his GOP rivals and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. But BuzzFeed’s “Andrew Kaczynski unearthed an audio recording of [Trump] saying he supported” the invasion in 2002. Despite releasing audio evidence, media outlets, including “CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, Bloomberg, the New York Times, and the Washington Post” have all either reprinted Trump’s lie, or allowed him to claim he opposed the invasion without pushback.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Smith also highlighted how the media, led by the <b>Times’ Maureen Dowd, </b>have also added this “fake fact” into a “fake narrative” that Trump is more of a “dove” on foreign policy than Hillary Clinton, ignoring that Trump’s claim he opposed the invasion has been debunked, that he has has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons in the Middle East and Europe, and has floated military engagement with Iran.</span></div><div>
</div><div>In his May 3 article, Smith implored media reporters to “stop letting [Trump] lie to their face about the most important policy call of the last 20 years,” writing, “Donald Trump did not oppose the invasion of Iraq” and “there’s no evidence that he’s ever been a ‘dove'”:</div><div>
</div><div>One of the great stories of 2016 is how Donald Trump hacked the media: How he learned from the New York tabloids and The Apprentice; how he dictated terms to the weakened television networks; how he used Twitter and won Facebook.</div><div>
</div><div>Those are complex questions that we will argue about for decades.</div><div>
</div><div>Here is a simpler one: Could reporters stop letting him lie to their face about the most important policy call of the last 20 years?</div><div>
</div><div>Donald Trump did not oppose the invasion of Iraq. Further, there’s no evidence that he’s ever been a “dove” — and a great deal that he’s been an impulsive supporter of military intervention around the world.</div><div>
</div><div>We know this because BuzzFeed News’s intrepid Andrew Kaczynski unearthed an audio recording of him saying he supported it. You can listen to it above. The audio quality is clear.</div><div>
</div><div>In the recording, made on Sept. 11, 2002, when it mattered, Howard Stern asked Trump whether he supported the invasion. His answer: “Yeah, I guess so.” On the war’s first day, he called it a “tremendous success from a military standpoint.”</div><div>
</div><div>It was the most recent in a series of belligerent statements about Iraq. In 2000, he opined at length in his book how U.S. airstrikes did nothing to stop Iraq’s WMD programs and said it “is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion” in the context of a new war. He said many times in the late 1990s and early 2000s George H.W. Bush should have toppled Saddam during the Gulf War.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s opinions during that period have all the force and thoughtfulness of a man who isn’t paying much attention and whose opinion doesn’t matter. His support for the war is also totally unambiguous.</div><div>
</div><div>And yet, since Kaczynski found the audio recordings, most of the leading American media organizations have either repeated Trump’s lie or allowed him to deliver it unchallenged. That includes CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, Bloomberg, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.</div><div>
</div><div>This fake fact is the basis for a fake narrative, crystallized in a Maureen Dowd column over the weekend christening “Donald the Dove.”</div><div>
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</div><div><b>The New York Times' New Myth Is That Hillary Clinton Is More Hawkish Than Donald Trump</b></div><div><b>
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</div><div>The New York Times' Mark Landler and Maureen Dowd are baselessly claiming that Hillary Clinton would be more likely to bring the nation to war if elected president than Donald Trump, in part due to Trump's claims of opposition to the Iraq War. In fact, Trump supported the Iraq War, has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons in the Middle East and Europe, has floated military engagement with Iran, and called for U.S. invasions of Libya and Syria.</div><div>
</div><div>The NY Times' Shoddy And Sexist Attacks On Hillary Clinton</div><div>Research ››› March 21, 2016 4:14 PM EDT ››› TYLER CHERRY</div><div>
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</div><div>Following former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson's acknowledgment that The New York Times gives an unfair "level of scrutiny" to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, Media Matters takes a look back at some of the Times' most ludicrous, false, and sexist attacks on Clinton.</div><div>
</div><div>NYT's Maureen Dowd Alleges That Hillary Clinton "Killed Feminism"</div><div>Dowd Has Been Launching Sexist Attacks At Clinton For Decades</div><div>Blog ››› February 14, 2016 3:13 PM EST ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF</div><div>
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</div><div><b>New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed in an opinion piece that Hillary Clinton "killed feminism," a charge undermined by Dowd's long record of sexist attacks against Clinton.</b></div><div>
</div><div>According to a Media Matters study, between November 1993 and January 2016, Dowd wrote 212 columns that made significant mention of Clinton, 75% of which were negative and 17% of which accused her of betraying feminism. Dowd's decades-long history of sexist comments about Hillary Clinton includes variously characterizing her as excessively masculine and excessively feminine and comparing her to several mentally unstable fictional female characters. Over the last year, Dowd has compared Clinton to an "annoyed queen" and advised her to "run as a man this time." Despite these attacks, Dowd recently complained that Clinton's "campaign cries sexism too often."</div><div>
</div><div>In a February 13 column, Dowd wrote that "Hillary Clinton killed feminism" and attacked her for assuming "there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world that now was the time to come back home and vote for a woman":</div><div>
</div><div>The Clinton campaign is shellshocked over the wholesale rejection of Hillary by young women, younger versions of herself who do not relate to her.</div><div>
</div><div>Hillary's coronation was predicated on a conviction that has just gone up in smoke. The Clintons felt that Barack Obama had presumptuously snatched what was rightfully hers in 2008, gliding past her with his pretty words to make history before she could.</div><div>
</div><div>So this time, the Clintons assumed, the women who had deserted Hillary for Barack, in Congress and in the country, owed her. Democrats would want to knock down that second barrier.</div><div>
</div><div>Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world that now was the time to come back home and vote for a woman. (The Clintons seem to have conveniently forgotten how outraged they were by identity politics when black leaders deserted them in 2008 to support Obama.)</div><div>
</div><div>This attitude intensified the unappetizing solipsistic subtext of her campaign, which is "What is Hillary owed?" It turned out that female voters seem to be looking at Hillary as a candidate rather than as a historical imperative. And she's coming up drastically short on trustworthiness.</div><div>
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</div><div>What the three older women seemed to miss was that the young women supporting Sanders are living the feminist dream, where gender no longer restricts and defines your choices, where girls grow up knowing they can be anything they want. The aspirations of '70s feminism are now baked into the culture.</div><div>
</div><div>The interesting thing about the spectacle of older women trying to shame younger ones on behalf of Hillary is that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity of institutional feminism back in the '90s -- with the help of Albright and Steinem.</div><div>
</div><div>Instead of just admitting that he had had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and taking his lumps, Bill lied and hid behind the skirts of his wife and female cabinet members, who had to go out before the cameras and vouch for his veracity, even when it was apparent he was lying.</div><div>
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</div><div>Hillary knew that she could count on the complicity of feminist leaders and Democratic women in Congress who liked Bill's progressive policies on women. And that's always the ugly Faustian bargain with the Clintons, not only on the sex cover-ups but the money grabs: You can have our bright public service side as long as you accept our dark sketchy side.</div><div>
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</font></span></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Maureen Bridgid Dowd</b><sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> (<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="background: none; text-decoration: none !important;">/<span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;"><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/aʊ/ 'ou' in 'pout'">aʊ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born January 14, 1952) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">columnist</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>, and a best-selling author.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the 1970s and the early 1980s, Dowd worked for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Time Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Time</a></i> magazine and the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Star" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Star</a></i>, where she covered news, sports, and wrote feature articles.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dowd joined the <i>New York Times</i> in 1983 as a Metropolitan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reporter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reporter</a>, and became an Op-Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> In </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1999, Dowd was awarded a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pulitzer Prize</a> for her series of columns on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal" title="Lewinsky scandal" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monica Lewinsky scandal</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Clinton</a> administration.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; 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</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#Early_life_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#New_York_Times_columnist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><i>New York Times</i> columnist</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Bibliography</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maureen_Dowd&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dowd was born the youngest of five children<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> and is of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish American" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Irish</a> ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-Dowd96_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-Dowd96-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" (Meenehan), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, D.C. police inspector.<sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ie_profile_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-ie_profile-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>Dowd graduated from Immaculata High School in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> She received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_studies" title="English studies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">English</a> in 1973 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catholic_University_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="The Catholic University of America" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Catholic University of America</a> in Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dowd began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Star" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Star</a></i>, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> When the newspaper closed in 1981, she went to work at<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Time Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Time</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> In 1983, she joined <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>, initially as a metropolitan reporter.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> She began serving as correspondent in the <i>Times</i> Washington bureau in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1991, Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Columbia University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> In 1992, she was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pulitzer Prize</a> finalist for national reporting,<sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> and in 1994 she won a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrix Award" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Matrix Award</a> from New York <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Women in Communications" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Women in Communications</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="mw-headline" id="New_York_Times_columnist" style=""><i style="">New York Times</i> columnist</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dowd became a columnist on </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The New York Times</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Op-Ed page in 1995,</span><sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> replacing </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Quindlen" title="Anna Quindlen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anna Quindlen</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><sup id="cite_ref-ie_profile_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-ie_profile-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who left to become a full-time novelist.</span><sup id="cite_ref-nw_aq_bio_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nw_aq_bio-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamour(magazine)" title="Glamour (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Glamour</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> magazine in 1996,</span><sup id="cite_ref-pp_md_bio_3-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-pp_md_bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and won the 1999 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pulitzer Prize</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, for distinguished commentary.</span><sup id="cite_ref-nyt_md_bio_2-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-nyt_md_bio-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000,</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The University of Texas at Austin</a> in 2005</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2010, Dowd was ranked #43 on </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Daily Telegraph</a>'</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s list of the 100 most influential </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Modern liberalism in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">liberals</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in America; in 2007, she was ranked #37 on the same list.</span><sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-telegraph-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen’s humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take."</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Dowd herself has said, "she is in my head in the sense that I want to inform and amuse the reader."</span><sup id="cite_ref-freshdialogues.com_15-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-freshdialogues.com-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemical" class="mw-redirect" title="Polemical" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">polemical</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> writing style.</span><sup id="cite_ref-stiletto_16-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-stiletto-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Her columns often display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Presidents</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">George W. Bush</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Bill Clinton</a>. Dowd also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames. For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W." and former Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Dick Cheney</a> as "Big Time."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a></sup> She has called President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Barack Obama</a> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock" title="Spock" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Spock</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-spock_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-spock-18" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[18]</a></sup> and "Barry." Dowd's interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism early in her career: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dowd, who perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics, often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary.<sup id="cite_ref-stiletto_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-stiletto-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> In a <i>Times</i> video debate, she said of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_government" class="mw-redirect" title="North Korean government" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North Korean government</a>, "...you could look at a movie like <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls" title="Mean Girls" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mean Girls</a></i> and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting; you know it's like high school girls with nuclear weapons—they just want some attention from us, you know?"<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dowd's columns have also been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> For example, in the run-up to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,2000" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. presidential election, 2000" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2000 presidential election</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>Dowd wrote that</b></span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Democratic Party" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration: none;">Democratic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> candidate "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Al Gore</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">is so feminized and diversified and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration: none;">ecologically</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> correct that he's practically </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactation" title="Lactation" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration: none;">lactating</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,"</span><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[20]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> while referring to the Democratic party as the "mommy party.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-NYmag-dowd_1-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-NYmag-dowd-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In a Fresh Dialogues interview years later she said, "I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. That’s not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was – sometimes – a pompous messenger for them."</span><sup id="cite_ref-freshdialogues.com_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-freshdialogues.com-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Talking Points Memo</a></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">blogger</a> "thejoshuablog" found a paragraph in Dowd's May 17, 2009 <i>Times</i> column that was similar to one in a May 14 blog post by <i>TPM</i> editor<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall" title="Josh Marshall" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Josh Marshall</a>, and accused her of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">plagiarism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> Dowd said the wording was "a line" told to her by a friend, and that she had never read the blog.<sup id="cite_ref-huffpo-lifting_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-huffpo-lifting-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> Since then, Dowd's column has been updated with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction(newspaper)" title="Correction (newspaper)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">correction</a> that references Marshall. <i>Times</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_editor" title="Public editor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">public editor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Hoyt" title="Clark Hoyt" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clark Hoyt</a> said, "...readers have a right to expect that even if an opinion columnist like Dowd tosses around ideas with a friend, her column will be her own words. If the words are not hers, she must give credit."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2014, Dowd said she ate about one-quarter of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_foods" class="mw-redirect" title="Cannabis foods" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cannabis-infused chocolate bar</a>, while touring the legalized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">recreational cannabis</a> industry.<sup id="cite_ref-cannabist2_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabist2-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> She said she was later told she should have only eaten one-sixteenth,<sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-bi_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-bi-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-salon_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-salon-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> which was not in the instructions on the label.<sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-slate_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-slate-31" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-wapo_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-wapo-32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> She then described her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a June 3, 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><i>New York Times</i></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">op-ed</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-salon_30-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-salon-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-nyt_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-nyt-33" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> In September 2014, Dowd followed up on this story with another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><i>New York Times</i></a> op-ed, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Willie Nelson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cannabis-nyt2_34-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-cannabis-nyt2-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 4, 2014, Dowd published a column about the dominance of men in the film industry; in it she quoted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Pascal" title="Amy Pascal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Amy Pascal</a>, co-chairman of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment" title="Sony Pictures Entertainment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sony Pictures Entertainment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup> According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzfeed" class="mw-redirect" title="Buzzfeed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Buzzfeed</a>, “leaked emails from Sony” suggested that Dowd had promised to share the column with Pascal’s husband, former <i>Times</i>reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Weinraub" title="Bernard Weinraub" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bernard Weinraub</a> prior to the column's publication. Buzzfeed said the column “painted Pascal in such a good light that she engaged in a round of mutual adulation with Dowd over email after its publication.”<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup> Both Dowd and Weinraub have denied that Weinraub ever received the column. On December 12, 2014 <i>Times</i>public editor Margaret Sullivan concluded, “While the tone of the email exchanges is undeniably gushy, I don’t think Ms. Dowd did anything unethical here.” <sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> In August 2014, it was announced that Dowd would become a staff writer for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine" title="The New York Times Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times Magazine</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> Her first article under the new arrangement was published more than a year later.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On May 2, 2015, Dowd published a column in the NY Times about her niece, Tara who had a stroke at age 41, caused by an arterial dissection in her brain.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup> Prior to the stroke, Tara had been a very active athlete. The first neurologist who saw Tara told her to cut back on physical activity, but a second neurologist, Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_R.Caplan" title="Louis R. Caplan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Louis R. Caplan</a>, a Harvard neurologist, disagreed with the first neurologist and told her to return to exercise, which she did safely. In the article, Dr. Caplan suggested that going to the emergency rooms was "dangerous" and compared ERs to "local gas stations" where you should not get your brain, a "Rolls-Royce" serviced. He suggested you go see a neurologist instead of going to the ER. These comments unleashed a firestorm of comments from emergency medicine physicians on social media, who thought that Caplan's comments were poorly informed and reckless, particularly sending the message not to go to the ER when you're having stroke, which directly contradicts recommendations from the American Heart Association to "call 9-1-1" when experiencing signs of stroke.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup> In a related column in the Huffington Post, Dr. David Newman, an ER physician from Mount Sinai, wrote that Dr. Caplan's comments showed "poor insight" and "narrow expertise", claiming that subspecialty medicine as a whole was expensive and often unnecessarily invasive.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dowd formerly </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">dated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin" title="Aaron Sorkin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Aaron Sorkin</a>, the creator and producer of <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing" title="The West Wing" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">The West Wing</a>.</i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> She also had "a brief fling" with the actor </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Douglas" title="Michael Douglas" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Michael Douglas</a><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and is an ex-companion of her fellow </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Times</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> columnist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tierney_(journalist)" title="John Tierney (journalist)" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">John Tierney</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; 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