Maureen Dowd

{{Infobox person

| name = Maureen Dowd

| image = Maureen dowd (cropped).jpg

| caption = Dowd in 2008

| birth_name = Maureen Brigid Dowd

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|01|14}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| education = Catholic University of America (BA)

| occupation = Journalist

| employer = The Washington Star (1974–1981)
Time (1981–1983)
The New York Times (1983–present)

| years_active = 1974–present

}}

Maureen Brigid DowdDowd, Maureen (May 19, 2018). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/opinion/sunday/ireland-abortion-referendum.html Scarlet Letter in the Emerald Isle]", The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2018. ({{IPAc-en|d|aʊ|d}}; born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles. She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995. Dowd became a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine in 2014. In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

Dowd's columns often explore politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics. Her writing style has been compared to political cartoons in its exaggerated satire of politics and culture. Some have criticized her writings on female public figures, particularly Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, as sexist.

During the 2016 presidential election, Dowd penned a New York Times op-ed, titled "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk", which was frequently referenced by critics of Donald Trump's foreign policy when he took actions contrary to the narrative put forth by Dowd.{{Cite news |last=Drezner |first=Daniel W. |date=2018 |title=Tell me again how Donald Trump is a dove |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/18/tell-me-again-how-donald-trump-is-a-dove/ |work=The Washington Post}}

Early life and career

Dowd was born the youngest of five children"Margaret Dowd, 97; Font of Advice". The Washington Post. July 21, 2005. Retrieved December 17, 2014. in Washington, D.C.{{cite web |title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary: Biography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/biography/1999-Commentary |access-date=May 19, 2009 |publisher=Columbia University}} Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" ({{nee|Meenehan}}), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, D.C., police inspector.{{cite web |last=Levy |first=Ariel |date=October 31, 2005 |title=The Redhead and the Gray Lady |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14946/ |access-date=February 18, 2010 |website=New York}}{{cite web |last=McDermott |first=Peter |date=August 8, 2007 |title=Echo Profile: A necessary woman – Times' Dowd endeavors to keep W, Vice, and Rummy in check |url=https://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17438 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060227093056/https://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17438 |archive-date=February 27, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2007 |website=The Irish Echo}} In 1969, Dowd graduated from Immaculata High School.Schmalzbauer 2003, p. 18; "Singularly acerbic pen sets Dowd apart as Clinton critic; N.Y. Times' pundit keeps caustic watch on Washington". The Washington Times. September 25, 1996. In 1973, she received a B.A. in English from the Catholic University of America.{{cite news|url=https://topics.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/DOWD-BIO.html|title=Columnist Biography: Maureen Dowd|date=April 16, 2002|access-date=December 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210074418/http://topics.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/DOWD-BIO.html|archive-date=February 10, 2013|website=The New York Times}}

Dowd entered journalism in 1974 as a dictationist for the Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, Dowd worked for Time. In 1983, Dowd joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter. Dowd began serving as a correspondent in the Times Washington bureau in 1986. In 1987, after being tipped off by Jeffrey Lord, she broke the story that Delaware Senator Joe Biden had plagiarized several speeches from other politicians. The revelation was the first in a cascading series of damaging stories that ultimately ended Biden's first presidential campaign.{{Cite news |last=Satija |first=Neena |date=2019-06-05 |title=Echoes of Biden's 1987 plagiarism scandal continue to reverberate |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/echoes-of-bidens-1987-plagiarism-scandal-continue-to-reverberate/2019/06/05/dbaf3716-7292-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240618140339/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/echoes-of-bidens-1987-plagiarism-scandal-continue-to-reverberate/2019/06/05/dbaf3716-7292-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html#selection-527.0-530.0 |archive-date=2024-06-18 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

In 1991, Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University. In 1992, she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting, and in 1994 she won a Matrix Award from the New York Association for Women in Communications.{{cite web|url=http://www.nywici.org/matrix-awards/hall-fame#y1994 |title=Matrix Hall of Fame |website=New York Women in Communications |access-date=August 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126084252/http://www.nywici.org/matrix-awards/hall-fame |archive-date=November 26, 2011 }}

''New York Times'' columnist

Dowd became a columnist on The New York Times op-ed page in 1995, replacing Anna Quindlen.{{cite web | url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4916427/site/newsweek/ | title=Meet Newsweek – Anna Quindlen, Contributing Editor | date=January 11, 2006 | work=Newsweek |via=MSNBC | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508231806/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4916427/site/newsweek/ | archive-date=May 8, 2007 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 8, 2007 }} Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996, and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished commentary. She won the Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000,{{cite web | url=http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/denverpressclub/dr/dowd.shtml | title=Maureen Dowd – The Damon Runyon Award, 1999–2000 | publisher=The Denver Press Club | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720122619/http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/denverpressclub/dr/dowd.shtml | archive-date=July 20, 2006 | access-date=August 8, 2007}} and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.{{cite web | url=http://www.utexas.edu/supportut/news_pub/yg_dowd-davislecture.html | title=Columnist Maureen Dowd Kicks Off New Lecture Series | publisher=University of Texas at Austin | access-date=August 8, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614175414/http://www.utexas.edu/supportut/news_pub/yg_dowd-davislecture.html | archive-date=June 14, 2006 }} In 2010, Dowd was ranked No. 43 on The Daily Telegraph{{'}}s list of the 100 most influential liberals in America; in 2007, she was ranked No. 37 on the same list.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6973159/The-most-influential-US-liberals-60-41.html | title=The most influential US liberals: 60-41 | last=Harnden | first=Toby | author-link=Toby Harnden | date=January 13, 2010 | work=The Daily Telegraph | access-date=January 14, 2010 | location=London}}

Dowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen's humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take." Dowd herself has said, "She is in my head in the sense that I want to inform and amuse the reader."{{cite web|last=van Diggelen|first=Alison|url=http://www.freshdialogues.com/2009/04/03/maureen-dowd-talks-green/|title=Maureen Dowd talks green – from Emerald Isle to Eco-Issues|website=freshdialogues.com|date=April 3, 2009}} Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401996.html | title=Sex & the Single Stiletto | first=Howard | last=Kurtz | author-link=Howard Kurtz | date=October 5, 2005 | newspaper=The Washington Post | pages=C01 | access-date=August 8, 2007}} Her columns display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames. For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W" and former Vice President Dick Cheney as "Big Time";{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/opinion/liberties-west-wing-chaperone.html | title=Liberties; West Wing Chaperone | first=Maureen | last=Dowd | date=October 8, 2000 | website=The New York Times | access-date=May 24, 2009}} and she has called former President Barack Obama "Spock"{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/opinion/30dowd.html | title=As the Nation's Pulse Races, Obama Can't Seem to Find His | last=Dowd | first=Maureen | date=December 30, 2009 | work=The New York Times | pages=A27 | access-date=January 3, 2010 }} and "Barry."

Her interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism from some early in her career, such as this: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy."

Because Dowd perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics, she often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary. For instance, in a Times video debate she said of the North Korean government that "you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting," drawing out a similarity between their reaction and high school girls with nuclear weapons who just wanted attention.{{cite video | people=Brooks, David; Dowd, Maureen; Rich, Frank (speakers) | url=http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/07/19/opinion/1194817112243/2-bushs-circle-of-trust.html | title=U.S. Politics: What's Next?—2: Bush's Circle of Trust | format=Flash Video | website=The New York Times | time=5:05 | date=July 19, 2006 | access-date=May 19, 2009 }}

Dowd's columns have also been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration. For example, in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election she wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating,"{{cite web | url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/11/6238_maureen_down_re.html | title=Maureen Dowd Rehashes the "Presidential Candidate X is a Wuss" Construct | last=Stein | first=Jonathan | work=MoJo (blog) | publisher=Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress | date=November 19, 2007 | access-date=May 19, 2009 }} while referring to the Democratic Party as the "mommy party." In a Fresh Dialogues interview years later, she said of Gore:

I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. That's not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was—sometimes—a pompous messenger for them.

In January 2014, Dowd recounted that after eating about one-fourth of a cannabis-infused chocolate bar while touring the legalized recreational cannabis industry,{{cite news|last1=Baca|first1=Ricardo|title=NYT's Maureen Dowd reacts: In quest for fun, risks downplayed|url=http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/06/05/maureen-dowd-reacts-focused-fun-risks/13196/|access-date=June 6, 2014|work=The Cannabist|date=June 5, 2014}} she was later told she should have only eaten one-sixteenth{{cite web|last1=Walker|first1=Hunter|title=Maureen Dowd Got Way Too High And Freaked Out|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/maureen-dowd-too-high-and-freaked-out-2014-6|website=Business Insider|access-date=June 5, 2014|date=June 4, 2014}}{{cite web|last1=McDonough|first1=Katie|title=Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/maureen_dowd_ate_a_large_dose_of_a_marijuana_chocolate_bar_freaked_out_wrote_about_it/|website=Salon|access-date=June 5, 2014|date=June 4, 2014}}—but that this had not been in the instructions on the label.{{cite web|last1=Weissman|first1=Jordan|title=The Economic Lesson of Maureen Dowd's Reefer Madness|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/04/marijuana_edibles_what_maureen_dowd_s_bad_trip_teaches_us_about_the_new.html|website=Slate|access-date=June 5, 2014|date=June 4, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Alyssa|title=What Maureen Dowd gets right about marijuana|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/04/what-maureen-dowd-gets-right-about-marijuana/|access-date=June 5, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 4, 2014}} She went on to describe her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a June 3, 2014 New York Times op-ed,{{cite news|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen|title=Don't Harsh Our Mellow, Dude|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html|access-date=June 5, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=June 3, 2014}} following up on this story in another op-ed in September 2014, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" Willie Nelson.{{cite news|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen|title=Two Redheaded Strangers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/willie-nelson-feels-maureen-dowd-s-pain.html|access-date=September 21, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=September 20, 2014}}

On March 4, 2014, Dowd published a column about the dominance of men in the film industry in which she quoted Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.{{cite news|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen|title=Frozen in a Niche?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/opinion/dowd-frozen-in-a-niche.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 4, 2014}} According to BuzzFeed, "leaked emails from Sony" suggested that Dowd had promised to provide the draft column to Pascal's husband, Bernard Weinraub, prior to the column's publication. BuzzFeed said the column "painted Pascal in such a good light that she engaged in a round of mutual adulation with Dowd over email after its publication."{{cite web|last=Zeitlin|first=Matthew|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewzeitlin/leaked-emails-reveal-maureen-dowd-promised-to-sony-execs-hus|title=Leaked Emails Suggest Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication|work=BuzzFeed|date=December 11, 2014}} Both Dowd and Weinraub have denied that Weinraub ever received the column. On December 12, 2014, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan concluded, "While the tone of the email exchanges is undeniably gushy, I don't think Ms. Dowd did anything unethical here."{{cite news| url=https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/maureen-dowd-amy-pascal-email-leak-questions/ | work=The New York Times | first=Margaret | last=Sullivan | title=Hacked Emails, 'Air–Kissing' — and Two Firm Denials | date=December 12, 2014}}

In August 2014, it was announced that Dowd would become a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2014/08/maureen-dowd-named-new-york-times-magazine-staff-writer/|title=Maureen Dowd Named New York Times Magazine Staff Writer|first=Kara|last=Bloomgarden-Smoke|date=August 11, 2014|work=Observer}} Her first article under the new arrangement was published more than a year later.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/magazine/kate-mckinnon-hates-letting-her-hair-down.html|title=Kate McKinnon Hates Letting Her Hair Down|date=September 20, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen}}

= Controversial portrayals of Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump =

Dowd has been accused of sexism by Clark Hoyt, then-public editor of The New York Times.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22pubed.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Pantsuits and the Presidency|last=Hoyt|first=Clark|date=June 22, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 17, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/maureen-dowd-praises-metooafter-years-of-slut-shaming-monica-lewinsky|title=Maureen Dowd Praises #MeToo—After Years of Slut-Shaming Monica Lewinsky|last=Ryan|first=Erin Gloria|date=December 12, 2017|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=December 17, 2017}}{{Cite news|last=Gertz|first=Matt|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/02/06/maureen-dowd-who-once-termed-hillary-clinton-th/208418|title=Maureen Dowd -- Who Once Termed Hillary Clinton "The Manliest Candidate" -- Claims "Her Campaign Cries Sexism Too Often"|date=February 6, 2016|work=Media Matters for America|access-date=December 17, 2017}}{{Cite news|last=Kutner|first=Jenny|url=https://www.salon.com/2015/04/20/basking_in_estrogen_maureen_dowd_offers_predictably_sexist_take_on_hillary_clintons_campaign/|title="Basking in estrogen": Maureen Dowd offers predictably sexist take on Hillary Clinton's campaign|date=April 20, 2015|work=Salon|access-date=December 17, 2017}}{{Cite news|last=Marcotte|first=Amanda|url=https://www.salon.com/2016/02/08/dowd_steinem_take_the_bait_sexist_catfight_narrative_around_the_clinton_campaign_takes_hold_in_latest_case_of_nasty_gender_politics/|title=Dowd, Steinem take the bait: Sexist "catfight" narrative around the Clinton campaign takes ho...|date=February 8, 2016|work=Salon|access-date=December 17, 2017}} A 2017 study which examined sexualized shaming of Monica Lewinsky in mainstream news coverage stated that in Dowd's extensive writings about Lewinsky, she repeatedly "mocked and disparaged her."{{Cite journal|last=Everbach|first=Tracy|date=May 3, 2017|title=Monica Lewinsky and Shame|journal=Journal of Communication Inquiry|volume=41|issue=3|pages=268–287|doi=10.1177/0196859917707920|s2cid=151604797|issn=0196-8599}} A 2009 study of sexism towards Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the 2008 election observed that Dowd had disparaged Palin as a "Barbie" over her pageantry past.{{Cite journal|last1=Carlin|first1=Diana B.|author-link = Diana Carlin|last2=Winfrey|first2=Kelly L.|date=August 10, 2009|title=Have You Come a Long Way, Baby? Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Sexism in 2008 Campaign Coverage|journal=Communication Studies|volume=60|issue=4|pages=326–343|doi=10.1080/10510970903109904|s2cid=145107322|issn=1051-0974|quote=Maureen Dowd, one of Clinton's sharpest critics}}

Other commentators have criticized Dowd for being obsessed with Bill, especially Hillary Clinton.Msopine, [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/22/1203943/-Maureen-Dowd-From-respected-columnist-to-Mean-Girl "Maureen Dowd - From respected columnist to Mean Girl"], Daily Kos, April 23, 2013.Arthur Chu, [http://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/maureen_dowd_vs_hillary_clinton_mras_and_the_honey_badger_brigade_the_dazzling_glare_of_sexism_and_the_alluring_gender_blind%E2%80%9D_lie/ "Maureen Dowd vs. Hillary Clinton, MRAs and the Honey Badger Brigade: The dazzling glare of sexism and the alluring 'gender-blind' lie"], Salon, April 24, 2015.Brennan Suen, [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/10/new-york-times-maureen-dowd-writes-yet-another-anti-clinton-column/211474 "New York Times' Maureen Dowd Writes Yet Another Anti-Clinton Column"], Media Matters, July 10, 2016. During the 2008 Democratic primary, Dowd published an article titled "Can Hillary Clinton Cry Herself Back to the White House?", which a 2016 study said "[serves] to reinforce the stereotype that tears and visible emotions are feminine traits and signs of weakness".{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Jennifer J.|date=2016|title=Talk "Like a Man": The Linguistic Styles of Hillary Clinton, 1992–2013|journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=14|issue=3|pages=625–642|doi=10.1017/S1537592716001092|issn=1537-5927|doi-access=free}} She also published a column where she likened former Senator Clinton to the "Terminator", a ruthless cyborg where "unless every circuit is out, she'll regenerate enough to claw her way out of the grave"; in 2013 Jessica Ritchie, a research assistant at the University of Leicester, argued that portrayals such as these sought to portray Clinton and her presidential bid as improper and unnatural.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/opinion/23dowd.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Haunting Obama's Dreams|last=Dowd|first=Maureen|date=March 23, 2008|access-date=August 6, 2018}}{{Cite journal|last=Ritchie|first=Jessica|date=2013|title=Creating a Monster|journal=Feminist Media Studies|volume=13|issue=1|pages=102–119|doi=10.1080/14680777.2011.647973|s2cid=142886430|issn=1468-0777}} According to then-public editor of The New York Times Clark Hoyt, Dowd's columns about Clinton were "loaded with language painting her as a 50-foot woman with a suffocating embrace, a conniving film noir dame and a victim dependent on her husband". A 2014 analysis by the advocacy group Media Matters of 21 years of Dowd's columns about Hillary Clinton found that of the 195 columns by Dowd since November 1993 containing significant mentions of Clinton, 72 percent (141 columns) were negative towards Clinton.{{cite news|last1=Willis|first1=Oliver|last2=Groch-Begley|first2=Hannah|url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/18/the-numbers-behind-maureen-dowds-21-year-long-c/199752|title=The Numbers Behind Maureen Dowd's 21-Year Long Campaign Against Hillary Clinton|work=Media Matters|date=June 18, 2014}}

During the 2016 presidential election, Dowd penned a New York Times op-ed, titled "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk".{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-budget-alleged-dove-will-increase-pentagon-war-funding-by-139-percent|title=Alleged 'Dove' Donald Trump Will Increase War Funding by 139 Percent|work=The Daily Beast|last=Ackerman|first=Spencer|date=March 11, 2019|access-date=May 27, 2019}} She argued that Donald Trump held dovish foreign policy beliefs, citing his purported opposition to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. However, before the publication of the op-ed, it had been reported that Trump did, in fact, support the invasion, and there were no statements on the record opposing it.{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Ben|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/trump-supported-iraq-war|title=The Media Keeps Letting Trump Get Away With His Iraq Lie|website=BuzzFeed News|date=May 3, 2016 |access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/05/no-maureen-dowd-trump-didnt-oppose-iraq-war-from-the-start.html|title=No, Maureen Dowd, Trump Didn't Actually Oppose the Iraq War From the Start|last=Politi|first=Daniel|website=Slate Magazine|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/1/11549838/new-york-times-trump-iraq|title=The NY Times' Maureen Dowd fell for Trump's claim he opposed the Iraq War from the start|last=Lopez|first=German|date=May 1, 2016|website=Vox|access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/135775/liberals-keep-calling-donald-trump-dove|title=Why Do Liberals Keep Calling Donald Trump a Dove?|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=August 3, 2016|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=May 27, 2019|issn=0028-6583}} In 2018, Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, wrote that Trump's foreign policy was clearly hawkish and stated, "Yes, I'm extremely angry. I have no right to ask that anyone who told you in 2016 that Trump was going to be the more dovish president should probably not talk about foreign policy for a good long while. But dear God, it would be nice." Throughout Trump's presidency, critics of his foreign policy referenced the Dowd op-ed, claiming that many of the actions taken by Trump were entirely inconsistent with the narrative put forth by Dowd.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/people/maureen-dowd|title=Maureen Dowd|website=Media Matters for America|access-date=May 27, 2019}}{{Cite news|last=Taylor|first=Adam|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/23/its-time-to-drop-the-myth-of-donald-the-dove/|title=It's time to drop the myth of 'Donald the Dove'|date=August 23, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post}}

During the 2020 presidential election, Dowd wrote a column about Geraldine Ferraro, which initially—and incorrectly—stated that the last time a man and a woman ran on the Democratic ticket was the Mondale–Ferraro ticket, which led Clinton to joke that "either Tim Kaine and [she] had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again". The New York Times later corrected the column to say that 1984 was the last time a male Democratic presidential candidate chose a woman as his running mate.{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Martin|date=August 8, 2020|title=Hillary Clinton roasts NYT's Maureen Dowd over column|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/511172-hillary-clinton-roasts-nyts-maureen-dowd-over-column|access-date=January 25, 2021|website=The Hill}}

Personal life

Dowd is single but formerly dated Aaron Sorkin, the creator and producer of The West Wing. She was also involved with actor Michael Douglas and her fellow New York Times columnist John Tierney.

Honors

In 2004, Dowd received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Neil Sheehan at the International Achievement Summit in Chicago.{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}{{cite news |title=2004 Summit Highlights Photo | url= https://achievement.org/summit/2004/|quote= New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd receives the Golden Plate Award presented by fellow Pulitzer Prize recipient and Awards Council member Neil Sheehan at the 2004 International Achievement Summit in Chicago.}}

In 2012, NUI Galway awarded her an honorary doctorate.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-07-05 |title=Pulitzer Prize-winner recalls her Fanore links after NUIG doctorate |url=https://clarechampion.ie/pulitzer-prize-winner-recalls-her-fanore-links-after-nuig-doctorate/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020174516/https://clarechampion.ie/pulitzer-prize-winner-recalls-her-fanore-links-after-nuig-doctorate/ |archive-date=2021-10-20 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Clare Champion |language=en-GB}}

In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Commentary, she was also a finalist in 1992 for National Reporting.{{cite web |title=Maureen Dowd |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/maureen-dowd |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=31 March 2025}}

Bibliography

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?182785-1/bushworld-enter-risk Booknotes interview with Dowd on Bushworld, August 8, 2004], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?183564-1/bushworld-book-party Book party for Bushworld, September 13, 2004], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?189964-2/news-review Washington Journal interview with Dowd on Are Men Necessary?, November 18, 2005], C-SPAN| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?190019-2/are-men-necessary Presentation by Dowd on Are Men Necessary?, November 19, 2005], C-SPAN| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?416742-1/qa-maureen-dowd Q&A interview with Dowd on The Year of Voting Dangerously, October 16, 2016], C-SPAN| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?418406-1/the-year-voting-dangerously Presentation by Dowd on The Year of Voting Dangerously, November 15, 2016], C-SPAN| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?424801-5/maureen-dowd-discusses-the-year-voting-dangerously Interview with Dowd on The Year of Voting Dangerously, March 12, 2017], C-SPAN}}

{{cite book|last=Dowd |title=Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|year=2004|isbn=978-0-425-20276-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bushworldenterat00dowd_1}}
{{cite book|last=Dowd |title=Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide|publisher=Putnam|year=2005|isbn= 978-0-7553-1550-5|title-link=Are Men Necessary?}}
{{cite book |last=Dowd |first=Maureen |year=2016 |title=The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics |publisher=Twelve |isbn=978-1455539260}}{{cite news |date=September 16, 2016 |title=Inside The New York Times Book Review: Maureen Dowd on Clinton and Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/books/review/inside-the-new-york-times-book-review-maureen-dowd-on-clinton-and-trump.html |access-date=September 16, 2016}}

References

External links

[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/index.html Dowd's columns] at The New York Times
[http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/07/19/opinion/1194817097996/1-americans-and-the-mideast.html Dowd participates in an extended political discussion with Andrew Rosenthal, David Brooks and Frank Rich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305085153/http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/07/19/opinion/1194817097996/1-americans-and-the-mideast.html |date=March 5, 2011 }}, The New York Times video, July 17, 2006
{{IMDb name|id=0235682|name=Maureen Dowd}}
{{Internet Archive film clip|id=openmind_ep1691|description="The Open Mind - Are Men Necessary? (2005)"}}
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