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In Dowd's commentary, she asked a number of on-point questions and questioned the testicular virility -- as I would put it, not as she wrote -- of the first half black president.

Derrick K. Baker: Has the Real Obama Already Stood Up? Derrick K. Baker 2011

As much as it hurt my heart, and roiled my stomach and ached my head, I read with interest Maureen Dowd's recent commentary, "One And Done?" in the New York Times.

Derrick K. Baker: Has the Real Obama Already Stood Up? Derrick K. Baker 2011

Via thejoshuablog, Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times contains a paragraph that, with the exception of four words, looks to be a direct and uncredited lift from Josh Marshall at TPM.

More Than Just Cut and Paste 2009

Dowd's dander is raised by the fact that Bob Dylan, whom she goofily calls "the raspy troubadour of '60s freedom anthems," would "go to a dictatorship and not sing those anthems is a whole new kind of sellout -- even worse than Beyoncé, Mariah and Usher collecting millions to croon to Qaddafi's family, or Elton John raking in a fortune to serenade gay-bashers at Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding."

Eric Alterman: Think Again: Something Is Happening and You Don't Know What it is, Do You, Ms. Dowd? Eric Alterman 2011

The difference is "the Bush crowd was" in Ms. Dowd's column and "we were" in Josh's.

More Than Just Cut and Paste 2009

Ms. Dowd's history for skating a little too close to the edge of journalistic ethics is not new.

More Than Just Cut and Paste 2009

Having taken a recent "flight" on the London Eye left me in good shape to assess certain details of Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery, one of the finalists for a Cybils Award for middle-grade fiction.

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While reading Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery as a judge for the Cybils middle-grade fiction category, I came across a British term I didn't know.

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On the same day that Dowd's column appeared, The New York Daily News reported:

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Given Ms. Dowd's celebrity status and her snarky persona -- at least on TV -- I wouldn't be surprised if she probably thought that no one reads TPM and what's a little pilfering from a blog, anyway?

More Than Just Cut and Paste 2009