MoDo Gets Used

A comically absurd Barack Obama smear email is making the rounds right now involving a fabricated column by famed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. The email, presented as a June 29 op-ed (replete with Time’s font, layout, and Dowd byline) presents the “shocking” revelation that Obama’s famed Internet fundraising apparatus is really driven by wealthy financiers from — you guessed it — “Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries.”