Maureen Dowd -- constantly setting back the cause

Howard Kurtz interviews Maureen Dowd and lets her embarass herself at great length. Maureen seems to think that men are afraid of her because she is smart. The reality of course, is that men love smart women. They stay away from her because she is nuts.

I have to say that the interview did change my attitude about her. I feel sorry for her more than I used to.

Note this quote (thanks to Betsy for pointing it out):

People who criticize me say I should have focused more on policy or numbers," Dowd says. She insists she is not a liberal columnist, has no overarching ideology and chronicles the political wars as a Shakespearean drama. "In American history," she says, "all of our great traumas -- Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra, Iraq, Harriet Miers -- came from presidents' personal foibles. . . .

Wow. Every one of the "traumas" she mentions is a favorite of liberals. But of course, she has no liberal ideology. I wonder how she managed to forget the impeachment of Bill Clinton when discussing presidents' personal foibles?