Dowd Doubts: In Our Business, When You Goof, You Fix It. (Editor, Mobile Register)

Mobile Register ^ | 7-27-2003 | Michael Marshall

[blam]

I sent Mike Marshall an email this morning complimenting him on his position. Feel free to do the same, mmarshall@mobileregister.com

[VRWCmember]

Dowd is a gifted writer with a trenchant wit, though her talent is largely squandered: She seldom expresses a constructive thought. As I put it in an earlier column, she is mainly a standup comic specializing in insults -- Don Rickles with an exceptionally high language quotient.

Do you suppose Dowd is intelligent enough to recognize this quote as an insult?

[Kingasaurus]

"We're confident it was never her intention to distort the meaning. "

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

I can believe that Ms. Dowd had no "intention to distort" the president's meaning.

I can't.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I believe that she purposefully and intentionally distorted the quote, hnece no apology or clarification.

[TomB]

Good job, Mr. Marshall.

Just don't hold your breath waiting for a retraction or correction.

[MEG33]

It was her intent to distort.Everyone knows it,including the writer.

[Steve_Seattle]

There have been a lot of these bowdlerized quotes in the media in recent months, all of them attempting to distort statements made by President Bush or members of his administration. These distorted quotes should not be described as "mistakes" or "blunders," but as deliberate, partisan attempts to discredit the administration. Marshall gives Dowd way too much slack.

[tictoc]

Testimonials and endorsements for our Pulitzer prize-winning writer Maureen Dowd:

"Dowd is a gifted writer with a trenchant wit"
Mike Marshall, Editor of the Mobile Register

"Dowd is intelligent enough"
VRWCmember, noted commentator on FreeRepublic.com

[Athelas]

"I can believe that Ms. Dowd had no "intention to distort" the president's meaning."

This must be sarcasm right?

[mewzilla]

FYI. New editor really helped a lot, didn't it? SSDD.

[mewzilla]

Ping.

[DeuceTraveler]

He wants wit? Maybe we can convince him to use Mark Steyn instead.

[HRC]

Too Perfect.

[pogo101]

How about these Dowd-ified versions?

"Dowd is a ... writer ...."

"Dowd is ... enough"

[gridlock]

I can believe that Ms. Dowd had no "intention to distort" the president's meaning.

Hmmm. Let's run that through the "Dowdificator"...

I ... believe that Ms. Dowd had ... intent to distort the president's meaning.

There. Much better.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Dowd is a gifted writer with a trenchant wit."

My edited version: "Dowd is a . . . twit."

[El Laton Caliente]

You must be bucks up! The last one of those I saw for sale was in the $250,000 to $300,000 range, used...

[xm177e2]

It was her intent to distort.Everyone knows it,including the writer.

But can the writer really admit that? "Yeah Dowd intended to distort the quote, but we still want to run her columns in our paper"