Dowd and Out : Radar Online

Dowd and Out : Radar Online: "Radar talks to Maureen Dowd about her book’s backlash, Rummy’s diva fits and her future life as a playwright. BY JULIE BLOOM In the past month she’s been called an “out of whack” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) “unreconstructed fox” (New York) whose “glib” (L.A. Times), “shoddy,” and “alarmist” arguments in her “maddening” (Slate) “cluster bomb between hard covers” (Philadelphia Inquirer) have riled women and men throughout the media world. Maureen Dowd’s meditation on the state of the sexes, Are Men Necessary?, has caused far more fuss than any 800-word castrating–Dick Cheney column ever could. In her 338 page book peppered with enough pop culture references to reel in the kids and annoy most others, the New York Times’s only female op-ed columnist, whose penchant for puns and fearless jabs at politicos won her a Pulitzer, covers everything from the doomed Y chromosome to the sex lives of fact checkers. Radar Online decided it was about time to ring up the 53-year-old bomb thrower and find out what all the fuss was about."