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Monday, October 31, 2005 12:00 AM

Maureen Dowd: Fire starter

Rebecca Traister

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  • Monday, October 31, 2005 04:56 PM

    Mo' Dough?

    Amid all the praise Dowd gets for hitting the right targets, and the dissing she's getting for the NYT Magazine excerpts, one thing has been forgotten: Dowd faked a quote about John Kerry, or passed it on as truth. She made a big deal about "Who among us does not love NASCAR?"--which Kerry never said.

    The assistant to the previous Public Editor at the NYT told me that the NYT had received inquiries about Dowd's use of this spurious quote and then subsequent riffs on it in other NYT articles, but I never heard more from him and it certainly seems as if Dowd was not taken to task by her bosses. I guess they were too busy letting Judy Miller lead us into battle.

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