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Mark Twain, Tom Friedman, and Quotations Too Good to Be Correctly Attributed
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyOne of the hazards of fact-checking others -- or dressing down politicians who peddle preposterously bogus material -- is spreading your own misinformation while doing so. This was the booby trap Thomas L. Friedman and the New York Times set for themselves Tuesday in a column headlined, unfortunately, "Too Good to Check." I yield to no one in my admiration for Friedman, with whom I covered the White House in the Clinton years and later interviewed. As far as I know, I'm the only one who ever put forward Tom's name for consideration of the Nobel Peace Prize -- my thought being that he hardly ...
Romantic Comedies' Golden Age, When Wit Was Front Row Center
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIt's easy to say that no one is making romantic comedies like "Philadelphia Story" (1940) anymore, because it's true. But is that really the test? Maybe we're being too hard on contemporary filmmakers who, after all, reflect their times just as much as politicians and journalists do. I'm getting ahead of myself, however, so let's back up. Earlier this week, in a column headlined the "Tragedy of Comedy," New York Times luminary Maureen Dowd treated her readers to an engaging back-and-forth with Sam Wasson, the author of a new bestseller about the making of the classic 1961 movie, "Breakfast ...
Maureen Dowd and Sista Spinstas: We Need a New Word for 'Old Maid'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyNew York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, an expert on all things unattached, ponders a question in a recent column about the Supreme Court nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan: When in a woman's life does her partnership status designation switch from "single lady" to "dreaded over-the-hill, out-of-luck, you-are-finished, no-chance . . . perpetual aunt"? There it is: the "old maid" card. We have never been able to retire the word "spinster" from our collective consciousness even though, in polite company, we've switched to the vocabulary term "unmarried." It's not being mateless ...
My Reggie Love Date: Race Didn't Matter, and FishbowlDC Doesn't Get It
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyIn the June issue of Marie Claire magazine (on newsstands now) I write about a set-up courtesy of one Maureen Dowd -- yes, that Maureen Dowd. "I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." That guy just happened to be President Barack Obama's "body guy," or personal aide, Reggie Love (formerly of People Magazine's Hottest 25 Bachelors). It was the spring of '08 when MoDo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, "decided to take it upon herself to find me a man," I recount in Marie Claire. I was hesitant, of course. I mean how could the woman I'd helped with a computer ...
Barack Obama: The Man of Hillary Clinton's Dreams?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyEven with Bill Clinton fading into the background a bit these days, I don't think anyone has forgotten that the former president is still married to the secretary of state. And the current first couple still gives off a giddy 10th date kind of a vibe. So, why do columnists keep trying to set up Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?Maureen Dowd of the New York Times pens the latest of the Hillary-Barack marriage analogies, saying: "Barack Obama is the pretty thing who is taken with Hillary's serious, smartest-girl-at-Wellesley aura. In a funny way, he's the man of her dreams." ...
New York Times Defends Maureen Dowd on Plagiarism Charge
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs David Knowles wrote earlier, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is under fire for a passage in her op-ed piece that is a near-identical copy of one from TPM's Josh Marshall.Now, Politico reports that the New York Times has issued them a statement defending Dowd:...I put the question of whether this is common practice for columnists before Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, who passed me along to PR. But now I've now received a statement supporting Dowd from spokesperson Diane McNulty. Maureen had us correct the column online as soon as the error was brought to her attention, ...
If Joan Rivers Had a Spot on the New York Times Op-Ed Page... She'd Be Maureen Dowd
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThe New York Times op-ed page is a cherished institution of political and economic discourse. Its current crop of writers boasts multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, including Nicholas Kristof and Thomas L. Friedman, as well as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.Other luminaries on the current roster include David Brooks, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert and Joan Rivers.Oh wait, strike that last one. Checking our notes, it appears that last one is actually named Maureen Dowd, although you'll admit her column today about Michelle Obama's biceps made it pretty easy to confuse the her with Joan.Here's Dowd's take on ...
Maureen Dowd Hits Obama: That Didn't Take Long!
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe honeymoon appears to be drawing to a quick end for Barack Obama. Most of us expected him to bask in the glow of media adoration for quite some time, but after the implosion of Tom Daschle, some in the press seem to have decided that it's time to put down the pompoms, at least, temporarily. With cabinet picks dropping like flies -- and new mini-scandals popping up every day -- it appears they have finally hit a tipping point. They love Barack, but not as much as they love a good storyline (and their own credibility) -- so some are beginning to turn on him. Case in point: Maureen Dowd's ...
Obama Overseas Fundraising Story is Fake
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere is a fake story going around the internet, in email inboxes, and in the comments sections of these very pages, that says that a big chunk of Barack Obama's donations are coming from overseas, particularly the middle east. The story even has a Maureen Dowd byline, dated June 29, and some feature a photo of the New York Times columnist. The Obama campaign has been dogged by this type of smear during the entire campaign, and just when one lie is mostly stamped out, another pops up in its place. While the appearance of a byline may seem like ironclad proof of authenticity, I would advise ...
Turnabout is Fair Play
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe latest "dust-up" on the campaign trail is providing us with yet another example of why Barack Obama is not your run-of-the-mill, Democratic punching bag. Specifically, it is his ability to turn a negative into a positive that distinguishes him from such political casualties as Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry. Who else could survive such controversies as Reverend Wright and a truly regrettable choice of words used to describe the working poor, and somehow turn these gaffes into opportunities?Mind you, not everyone will see it this way. Hillary Clinton's argument -- that the GOP will ...
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