"Dowd's Hillary Hit -- Dateline Jerusalem?"

[SaveElmer]

It's election eve. Do you know where your favorite prestige columnist is?

Maureen Dowd weighed in with a column yesterday that made a big splash, pissed off lots of people, and became part of the political conversation about Hillary's New Hampshire victory. The column -- called "Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back To White House"? -- was datelined "Derry, N.H."

The column struck some people as taking a holier-than-thou tone to Dowd nemesis Hillary. But you don't know the half of it. The column, apparently, was filed from half a world away -- from Jerusalem.

The piece reads as if Dowd was on the scene at Hillary's victory party, interviewing voters reacting to her win. But it turns out Dowd couldn't have been at the party at all -- instead, she'd already jetted half way around the world to cover the President's Middle East trip, I'm told. An eyewitness tells TPM that on Tuesday night he spied Dowd typing away at the reporters' media filing center in Jerusalem's Dan Panorama hotel.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2008/01/dowds.php

[The Magistrate]

1. Stephen Glass' Girl-Friend, Is It, Sir?

[rinsd]

2. Mo Dowd...full of shit.

I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya!

[MasonJar]

3. Dowd can be amusing at times, but she is also a biased bitch. After

her destructive attacks on Al Gore, perhaps the most important man on the planet Earth, in 2000, it is a little interest to me whom she is currently bashing from near or afar. She is a little blimp, whose worth will register nowhere on any permanent basis, on the history of mankind.

[neutron]

4. I usually like Dowd

But if she watched Chris Matthews diatribes, she'd pull back on HRC.

[Beacool]

5. What's else is new?

Dowd is just being the same nasty piece of shit that she always is when commenting on Hillary. I refuse to read her drivel!!!

[Texas_Kat]

6. And here I assumed she was typing from her usual abode

the 7th circle of hell.

[BootinUp]

7. snap!