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Maureen Dowd

• November 18 -- "Crusted-Nut-Bar Dick Cheney"
Maureen Dowd isn't moving on: "President Bush is purging the naysayers who tried to temper crusted-nut-bar Dick Cheney and the neocon crazies on Iraq."

• November 16 -- Maureen Feeling Mobbed by "Vengeful" Bushies
Maureen Dowd hasn't quite gotten over Bush's victory: "I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob -- revved up by rectitude -- running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and infidels."

• October 28 -- Safire Throws Waters on "Explosives" Story
Times columnists William Safire casts some doubt on the origins of the paper's "explosives" story: "I'm a little suspicious of any last-minute charge. First of all, we have to find out, is this true. Second, why, if we knew about it or if it was known for 18 months since it began, why did it suddenly surface the last week of the election campaign. And third, what was the motive of whoever leaked it."

• September 13 -- Bush to Blame for Beslan Massacre?
Does Bush share responsibility for the killings of schoolchildren in Chechnya?

• September 9 -- Taking Cheney Far Out of Context, Again
Katharine Seelye and Ralph Blumenthal treat seriously the new controversy over Bush's Vietnam service--quite a change from how the Times treated the Swift Boat Veterans.

• September 7 -- Dowd Defends Times Against Bush's Quote "Distortion"
Maureen Dowd, of all people, rises to defend the historical honor of her paper by accusing George Bush in his acceptance speech of distorting words from a Times column penned in 1946. Dowd's defense is rather ironic, considering her own history of distorting quotes.

• August 16 -- Maureen Dowd, Sensitive as Ever
Maureen Dowd on Bush and stem cells: “…they've dragged poor Laura Bush out to go, for this, what Lee Atwater used to call the extra-chromosome conservatives."

• August 12 -- "Dowdworld," Starring Dick Cheney as Darth Vader
Maureen Dowd, promoting her new book, denies her liberal bent and relates a wacky Star Wars analogy starring Dick Cheney as Darth Vader.

• August 9 -- Maureen Dowd, on Another Planet
Maureen Dowd, promoting "Bushworld," her new collection of columns: "…what an astonishing story it is that a group, a small group of neo-cons who had never been to war themselves, would take over the entire apparatus of the federal government and hijack the war on terror."

• May 6 -- Rumsfeld Gets the Bum’s Rush, Squared
While the front page and the Web site emphasize trouble for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, columnists Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman both want Rumsfeld fired, “today, not tomorrow or next month, today.”

• October 30 -- Dowdy Old Anti-War Talking Points
Columnist Maureen Dowd stumbles through the liberal anti-war litany.

• October 17 -- Maureen Dowd's "Shameless" PR Campaign
Ever since Maureen Dowd's May 14 column (when she used an ellipses to reverse the plain meaning of a Bush quote on Al Qaeda), Web-watchers are reading closely between her lines. Is a correction in order again on her latest bit of Bush-bashing?

• September 25 -- The Times vs. “Scurrilous Biographies”…Sometimes
Michiko Kakutani reviews an anti-Clinton biography and doesn’t like it one bit: “Nigel Hamilton's new biography of Bill Clinton represents a sleazy new low in the chronicling of presidential lives. It regurgitates the most scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors about Mr. Clinton and his wife…” So the Times would never herald a book full of “scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors” about a president and his wife? Ask Nancy Reagan.

• August 13 -- Gen. Clark Chides Krugman’s Faulty Quote
Gen. Wesley Clark chides columnist Paul Krugman for inaccurately quoting him regarding a call he received urging him to link 9-11 to Saddam Hussein: “No one from the White House asked me to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11.”

• August 6 -- Frank Rich’s Persecution Complex
Times editor Frank Rich attacks as anti-Semitic Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie on the last hours of the life of Christ, claiming its “real tinder-box effect could be abroad, where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11.” But in the past liberal Rich has ridiculed the idea that movies cause violence. And his criticism is particularly hypocritical considering his discussion of 1995’s pro-gay, anti-Catholic Church movie “Priest.”

• June 30 -- Bob Herbert, Living In Oblivion
Bob Herbert blames it all on Bush: “There's a reason those campaign millions keep coming and coming and coming [to Bush]. A Times article last week noted that the wealthiest 400 taxpayers accounted for more than 1 percent of all the income in the United States in 2000, more than double their share just eight years earlier.” But the Times article measures income inequality during 1992-2000. Who was president back then?

• June 4 -- There She Goes Again
Maureen Dowd passes along another misleading quote, making Paul Wolfowitz appear to say that allowing the U.S. to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia was a major reason for the Iraq war.

• May 30 -- We’re Sure She Was
The Times says Maureen Dowd was “happy” to correct her distortion of a Bush quote.

• May 28 -- Dowd’s Dishonest Deletion, Part Deux
Maureen Dowd today quietly corrects her dishonest rendering of a Bush quote concerning the dangers of Al Qaeda. NY Daily News columnist Zev Chafets notes the Times is “looking into” Dowd’s column of May 14, in which Dowd apparently deleted a key part of a Bush quote to make him look naïve.

• May 14 -- Maureen Dowd’s Dishonest Deletion
Columnist Maureen Dowd purposely mangles a quote from President Bush to make him look wrong about the dangers posed by Al Qaeda terrorists—all so she can accuse the administration of “lulling triumphalism” in the war on terror.

• April 21 -- Maureen Dowd Uncowed by War’s Success
Maureen Dowd breezed by Iraqi jubilation in one snotty sentence: “We were always going to win the war with Iraq.” She’s back on Iraq, just in time to criticize the U.S. for not stopping the looting of Baghdad’s museums and libraries.

• April 7 -- Classy, Understated, Sincere
Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s tribute to journalist Michael Kelly.