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MoDooDoo was interviewed by the pockmarked Andrea Mitchell tonight. What a pair of deluded and misguided humans....read on if you can...but first, here's a pic of the man-deprived MoDo.

The book editor of the Raleigh N&O does a stunning job of nailing Ms. Dowd: "Maureen Dowd is the Joan Rivers of American journalism: a catty gossipmonger whose stock in trade is not arresting ideas but glib putdowns."

Dowd and Out Radar talks to Maureen Dowd about her book’s backlash, Rummy’s diva fits and her future life as a playwright. In the past month she’s been called an “out of whack” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) “unreconstructed fox” (New York) whose “glib” (L.A. Times), “shoddy,” and “alarmist” arguments in her “maddening” (Slate) “cluster bomb between hard covers” (Philadelphia Inquirer) have riled women and men throughout the media world. Maureen Dowd’s meditation on the state of the sexes, Are Men Necessary?, has caused far more fuss than any 800-word castrating–Dick Cheney column ever could. In her 338 page book peppered with...

To FR, from summer -- I was quite surprised to see this new photo for Maureen Dowd in today's online NYT:

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got to play a little audio sound bite for you here. This is from Reliable Sources yesterday on CNN. Howard Kurtz is talking to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who wrote, "Are Men Really Necessary?" and Howard's question was this: "When you write something about George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld and some of your critics out there decide to take you on, whether it's Rush Limbaugh or Friedman or David Brooks or anybody else, do you feel it's done in a more personal way than if you were Tom Friedman or...

Maureen Dowd is a name known to many men due to her status as one of the most prominent male bashers of our day. Indeed, with a recently released book entitled, Are Men Necessary?, she should no longer be dismissed as an annoying flibbertigibbet. While her silly rhymes and nicknames give her writing an undeniable airheadedness, her gargantuan audience and tenacious obsession with men make her a formidable adversary. Furthermore, as much as I would like to hold otherwise, I don’t think her views are that disparate from those of other older single women. Dowd was once a well-known reporter...

Cheap shots and other musingsCommentary: Big names in media getting down and dirty Editor's note: This is an update to fix formatting and typographical errors.NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - The media landscape has been as wild and crazy as ever lately. Some high-flying names have been acting mean, craven and downright odd. For instance:  TRADING CENTER Maureen Dowd should go stand in the cornerJust when it seemed as if the New York Times' furor would to die down, Times columnist Dowd gleefully threw gasoline on the flames. It was a play performed in two acts -- "The Modern Perils of...

Note: The following little gem was in yesterday's NY POST print edition, and not on the website, so I can't provide a link..but for the benefit of all of you "fans" of MoDo, I'm typing it for your enjoyment and amusement..

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, while turning herself into a caricature of Maureen Dowd, has lately pushed pop-culture references and amateur psychology to previously unimagined levels of absurdity. She began the process in the 1980s when she became a reporter in Washington, discovered that issues of government bored her and determined to get the politics out of politics. Her strategy was to cast politicians in cultural fantasies. During the 1992 primaries she said that one now-forgotten Democrat was enacting a scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; later she said the same guy sounded like Daisy Buchanan...

Maureen Dowd's penchant for provocative overstatement has found its most recent outlet in a much talked about excerpt of her new book, Are Men Necessary?, in the New York Times Magazine. In it she bemoans a perceived return of 1950s values and courtship rituals and portrays a younger generation of women as grasping, shallow housewife wannabes and "yummy mommies." In the most inflammatory and intriguing passages, she claims that men are put off by women in power, that they prefer the women who serve them—maids, masseuses, and secretaries—to their equals. She attributes the fact that she is unmarried to her...

Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller responded to catty colleague Maureen Dowd's snippy column with a seven-point rebuttal sent by e-mail, New York magazine is reporting. What were Miller's first words? "I like you, too" — a direct attack on Dowd's now-infamous lead, "I've always liked Judy Miller." The flamethrowing Dowd used the sugarcoated line before she trashed her colleague as a seat-stealer and for her "tropism toward powerful men," before calling for her resignation. But the magazine shows today it's Dowd — rather than Miller — who has earned her stripes as a red-haired temptress. Along with her...

DRUDGE REPORT READERS: HEADLINE FOR MAUREEN DOWD 'RED SHOE DIARIES' PHOTO Sun Oct 30 2005 13:39:21 ET "Put it on Judy Miller's tab"... "Just what I like to see, men behind bars" "I've Carried a torch longer than the Statue of Liberty" "Jerk" "For TimesSelect's amazingly low price of $49.95 a year you also get..." "Film archivist finds Mary Astor screen tests from The Maltese Falcon" "I'm On Deadline" "Stop me--I'm turning into my mother!" "Meet The Press." "Ya know, Joe, life just hasn't been the same for me since I lost Toto" "Announcing Donatella Versace's New Line For Winter."...

When I entered college in 1969, women were bursting out of theirs 50's chrysalis, shedding girdles, padded bras and conventions. The Jazz Age spirit flared in the Age of Aquarius. Women were once again imitating men and acting all independent: smoking, drinking, wanting to earn money and thinking they had the right to be sexual, this time protected by the pill. I didn't fit in with the brazen new world of hard-charging feminists. I was more of a fun-loving (if chaste) type who would decades later come to life in Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. I hated the grubby, unisex...

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September 14, 2005 A Fatal Incuriosity By MAUREEN DOWD I hate spending time in hospitals and nursing homes. I find them to be some of the most depressing places on earth. Maybe that's why the stories of the sick and elderly who died, 45 in a New Orleans hospital and 34 in St. Rita's nursing home in the devastated St. Bernard Parish outside New Orleans, haunt me so. You're already vulnerable and alone when suddenly you're beset by nature and betrayed by your government. [SNIP]

Best selling author Erica Jong was booed and told to 'Shut Up!' and 'Go Home!" during her 40 minute commencement address at the College of Staten Island.A little less than halfway through her graduation speech, some graduated began tossing around an inflatable beach volleyball. Some even got up from their chairs, just yards from the podium, to go chat with friends and family who were seated behind them.Ms. Jong, best known for her 1973 novel 'Fear of Flying' continued unfazed. She continued to speak as if everyone was listening attentively. 'Politicans speak the opposite of what they mean. They say...

I love chimeras. I've seen just about every werewolf, Dracula and mermaid movie ever made, I have a Medusa magnet on my refrigerator, and the Sphinx of Greek mythology is a role model for her lethal brand of mystery. So when chimeras reared up in science news, I grabbed my disintegrating copy of Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" to refresh my memory on the Chimera, the she-monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail: "A fearful creature, great and swift of foot and strong/Whose breath was flame unquenchable." Bellerophon, "a bold and beautiful young man" on flying Pegasus,...

Baby boomers' almost comic fear of aging reminds me of that silent movie scene in which Harold Lloyd hangs precariously from the hand of a giant clock, literally pulling time from its moorings. Despite the boomers' zealous attempts to stop time - with fitness and anti-aging products, with cosmetic enhancements by needle, laser and knife - time has caught up. The deaths of iconic figures and the noisy debate over assisted suicide have brought boomers face to face with their nemesis. "Suddenly," The New Republic observed, "we are all speculating about the feeding tubes in our future." Boomers want to...

Slump Busting ... and MoDo ain't happy about it! Our favorite Blue State Bubble Girl - MoDo - is in yet another "snit". She was none too pleased to learn that baseball players and feminism go together like Liberals and Sunday School picnics. MoDo went wading in the septic field of Jose Canseco's current tell-all. GUESS WHAT? She found out that pro athletes don't exactly put wimmen on a pedestal. (Sorta like Mo's #1 sweetie Ye Olde Slickster). On the brighter side ... Jose found a new career for Molly, Eleanor and Teresa - "Slump Busters. I thought everybody knew...

Milbank, Dowd Weigh In on Gannon/GuckertBy Greg MitchellPublished: February 17, 2005 11:05 AM ETNEW YORK Washington Post staff writer Dana Milbank, a former White House correspondent, tells a leading blog there remains reason to believe that, contrary to statements from the White House, ex-reporter James “Jeff Gannon” Guckert, may had a "hard" (long-term) press pass rather than a daily pass. Milbank said on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show last week that he thought he had seen Guckert/Gannon with a hard pass. Both the disgraced ex-reporter for Talon News and White House press Secretary Scott McClellan have denied this. But Milbank affirmed,...