In 2009, United States Representative Michele Bachmann ( R-MN ) was mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for incorrectly referring to the act as " Hoot Smalley ", and for incorrectly blaming president Franklin Roosevelt for the passage of the act.

In a column assessing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, Maureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr .' s place in it as " heartbreaking.

* Maureen Dowd, a New York Times columnist

* 1999: Maureen Dowd, New York Times, " for her fresh and insightful columns on the impact of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Walter Russell Mead described his prose as being " an occasionally flat Midwestern demotic punctuated by gee-whiz exclamations about just how doggone irresistible globalization is – lacks the steely elegance of a Lippmann, the unobtrusive serviceability of a Scotty Reston or the restless fireworks of a Maureen Dowd and is best taken in small doses.

The New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, quoted two young, professional women saying they liked shows with female characters like themselves, single, even obsessed.

* Maureen Dowd, " The Dream is Dead ," The New York Times, 12 December 2007

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" South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn said of the speech, " This, I think, offers Barack Obama his Sister Souljah moment "; the speech was also described as " more than a Sister Souljah moment " by columnist Maureen Dowd.

On February 21, 2007, in an interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Geffen described Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton in unflattering terms: " Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

" Maureen Dowd and others have criticized this position, believing that a crucial function of a journalist is independently to assess information, to question sources, and to analyze information before reporting it.

On October 22, 2005, in an op-ed piece, Maureen Dowd wrote,

In 2005, Vowell served as a guest columnist for The New York Times during several weeks in July, briefly filling in for Maureen Dowd.

Critics of " fun feminism " such as Maureen Dowd wrote of ' bimbo feminism, giving intellectual pretensions to a world where the highest ideal is to acknowledge your inner slut '.

Stylistically, Mallick has been compared to writers such as the American commentators Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivins and the British commentator Julie Burchill.

David Paterson to fill Hillary Clinton's U. S. Senate seat, according to The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

Maureen Dowd, in a satirical article, refers to Prescott Bush ( Yale ' 17 ) as a " Whiffenpoof.

Other famous spinsters include Susan B. Anthony, Ann Coulter, Florence King, Condoleezza Rice, Maureen Dowd, Holly Hallstrom, Lizzie Borden, Emily Dickinson, Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth I, actresses Frances Bavier, Ann B. Davis, Diane Keaton, Lillian Gish, Greta Garbo, and Amy Sedaris ; and novelists Harper Lee, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen.

Writers who worked at the Star in its last days included Nick Adde ( Army Times ), Stephen Aug ( ABC News ), Michael Isikoff ( Newsweek ), Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post ), Fred Hiatt ( The Washington Post ) Sheilah Kast ( ABC News ), Jane Mayer ( The New Yorker ), Chris Hanson ( Columbia Journalism Review ), Jeremiah O ' Leary ( The Washington Times ), Chuck Conconi ( Washingtonian ), Crispin Sartwell ( Creators Syndicate ), Maureen Dowd ( The New York Times ), novelist Randy Sue Coburn, Michael DeMond Davis, Lance Gay, ( Scripps Howard News Service ): Jules Witcover ( The Baltimore Sun ), Jack Germond ( The Baltimore Sun ), Judy Bachrach ( Vanity Fair ), Lyle Denniston ( The Baltimore Sun ), Fred Barnes ( Weekly Standard ), Kate Sylvester ( NPR, NBC, Governing Magazine ) and Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post ).

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New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd quoted a Democratic insider who claimed that 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry had " turned into a girlie man.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, " It was a huge relief, after our long national slide into untruth and no consequences, into Swift boating and swift bucks, into W .' s delusion and denial, to see the Empress of Empathy icily hold someone accountable for lying ," and the Washington Posts Richard Cohen was so impressed by the confrontation that he crowned Winfrey " Mensch of the Year.

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* Maureen O ' Hara, Irish born actress and celebrated Hollywood beauty.

Laura Maureen Bertram ( born 5 September 1978 ) is a Canadian actress.

Nancy Reagan also became stepmother to Maureen Reagan ( 1941 – 2001 ) and Michael Reagan ( born 1945 ), the children of her husband's first marriage to Jane Wyman.

Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in Kansas City, young adulthood, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families ( whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children ), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that family, and her life until her accidental " death " in 1982.

Maureen Diane Lipman, CBE ( born 10 May 1946 ) is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.

* Maureen O ' Sullivan, Ireland's first international movie star, was born in Boyle, County Roscommon.

* Maureen Ogden ( born 1928 ), seven-term member of the New Jersey General Assembly who served as Mayor of Millburn from 1979 to 1981.

* Johnny Weissmuller, winner in the 1920s of five Olympic gold medals in swimming and one bronze medal in water polo, and later, an actor best known for his six Tarzan movies with actress Maureen O ' Sullivan ; born in Timisoara, Romania, he lived in Windber for a few years as a child.

She and Reagan had three children ; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan ( 1941 – 2001 ), their adopted son Michael Edward Reagan ( born March 18, 1945 ), and Christine Reagan ( born prematurely on June 26, 1947 and died later the same day ).

Farrow was born as María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O ' Sullivan.

Maureen O ' Hara ( born 17 August 1920 ) is an Irish film actress and singer.

O ' Hara was born as Maureen FitzSimons on Beechwood Avenue in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh.

Anya Gallaccio was born in Paisley, Scotland to TV producer George Gallaccio and actress Maureen Morris, and studied at Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College.

Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany, to British parents: Maureen, a nurse, and Austin Monaghan, a science teacher.

Sheila Maureen Copps, PC ( born November 27, 1952 ) is a former Canadian politician who also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997.

Maureen Hunter ( born 1948 ) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Robson was born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, the son of Brian Robson, a long distance lorry-driver, and Maureen Robson.

Maureen Anne McTeer ( born February 27, 1952 ) is a Canadian author and a lawyer, married to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.

Maureen Reillette " Rebbie " Brown ( née Jackson ; born May 29, 1950 ) is an American singer professionally known as Rebbie Jackson ().

Maureen Reillette " Rebbie " Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana to a working-class family on May 29, 1950.

Barbara Maureen Roche ( née Margolis, born 13 April 1954 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hornsey and Wood Green from 1992 until 2005, when she lost the seat, despite having previously enjoyed a majority of over 10, 500.

Catherine Jane Clark ( born November 6, 1976 ) is a Canadian television broadcaster, and the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer.

They have a daughter, Alexandra Charmaine Maureen Schella, born on May 26, 2006 and a son, Charles Roger Dennis Schella, born April 1, 2009.