Obama Smear Emailer Tries to do Maureen Dowd's Job For Her

So by this point it’s no secret how we feel about Maureen Dowd and her gender-twisting habits, but even though we are quick to point out her shortcomings we were also quick to realize that the Obama smear email making the rounds right now that purports to be a June 29 Dowd column (complete with her byline, and the Times’ font — as if these things are hard to fake) accusing Obama of accepting online funds from “Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries” was not actually by Dowd.