Maureen Dowd -- opportunistic media thug

I think Robert Musil gets it exactly right on the Cindy Sheehan embarassment. He writes, in part:

I pray that if what befell Mrs. Sheehan's son should ever befall mine, at least I not be goaded to further grief-drenched flailings by a crowd of smirking, cannibalistic politicians such as John Conyers and Maxine Waters, and opportunistic media thugs including Maureen Dowd, who have done such disservice to Cindy Sheehan.