The New York Times' Maureen Dowd is, in my view, one of the worst journalists in the nation. When she's not "borrowing" words from Josh Marshall, she's being scolded by her own newspaper, or shamelessly admitting that she cares more about "the latest Neimann Marcus scandal" than about the economy. This week, one more FAIL is added to her rap sheet.

MoDo's topic choice for her first column following the release of the CIA Inspector General report on interrogations earlier this week, was...a woman who called another woman "skank."

But fucked up priorities are not even the focus of my entry today.

Instead, I'd like to bring your attention to Dowd's complaint about anonymous attacks on public figures:

Who are these people prepared to tell you what they think, but not who they are? What is the mentality that lets them get in our face while wearing a mask? Shredding somebody's character before the entire world and not being held accountable seems like the perfect sting.

But as writer Liz Cox Barrett dutifuly observed, Dowd herself has a history of resorting to such ad-hominem attacks, which I may add are usually aimed at, but not confined to, Hillary Clinton. Here's one of the several examples cited, from last year's primaries:

DOWD; It's impossible to imagine The Terminator, as a former aide calls [Hillary Clinton], giving up.... "It's like one of those movies where you think you know the end, but then you watch with your fingers over your eyes," said one leading Democrat...

"There's no love between [Al Gore] and Hillary," said one former Clintonista. "It was like Mitterrand with his wife and girlfriend. They were always competing for the affection of the big guy."

Frankly, I would have fired this irrelevant, overrated hypocrite a long, long time ago, if it were up to me.