It's amazing that Maureen Dowd has anywhere near the notability that she does. Same goes for Namoi 'Puffinstuff' Wolf.
I saw her thoroughly awful performance on O'R Factor tonight and I am certain she arrives at tv studios with a special camera lens by Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm, designed to make her look 115lbs (but the technology isn't quite 'there' yet.
I don't wat O'R regularly but he was on while I ate dinner, and I felt sorry for the guy having to go through that ordeal. Her point--that W's team manipulates women to get across a false pro-woman front--was simply, and simply wrong, so she had to dress it up with all kinds of inane chat. When O'Reilly challenged her, she basically said "I don't have FACTS to prove this, you just KNOW it's true."
I just realized where Kerry got his new Bush lives in a fantasy world" foreign policy, from Maureen Dowd!