Maureen Dowd,echoing Press Secretary Gibbs, ridicules Obama base as beret wearing, goateed anarchists.

Splitting the baby here, Maureen thinks Bobby Gibbs needs to be promoted, not fired, since he’s always wanted to be a counselor to the president, bonding as they did during the campaign over sports and missing their families.

There should be only two job offers Shirley Sherrod should be considering. And neither one is at the USDA.

All the hand-wringing over the President’s ‘failure’ to address the nation quickly enough after the attempted underwear bombing is probably foolish given the way Al Qaeda operate.

Maureen Dowd’s Long Goodbye to Bill Safire

Dowd’s plagiarism was bad enough. But her “explanation” is far worse, and sadly typical of many mainstream print journalists these days.

While the attacks on the President in his first two months have been pretty tame, this new one is just laughably lame.

Marureen Dowd”s bizarre twice-weekly column in the New York Times has to be one of the strangest and saddest phenemena in mainstream American journalism right now

Maureen Dowd was John McCain’s friend, a part of his “base.” Then a few weeks ago he kicked her off the campaign plane, abandoning her in Pittsburgh.

How close were they? In 2004, she was invited to celebrate his birthday with other members of the media elite.

Yesterday we wrote about Kurtz aside on Maureen Dowd getting banned from the McCain plane. Now the full story emerges:

It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn’t let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.