Maureen Dowd

Ah Maureen. Although we anticipate many of your colleagues in the journalism circus joining you on this page in the very near future, it gives us great pleasure to honor you with the first ever 'Yer An Asshole' award. Although we once enjoyed reading your column in The New York Times, lately we find your writing style to be coma-inducing. Your (not so) clever little symmetries are laughably predictable at this point. But what really offends us - and to be fair, you are not alone here - is your tendency to find controversy where there is none. Thus, your piece in today's Times picking up on the non-story of Obama's supposed elitism. Anyone with half a brain knows that Obama didn't mean what you and your colleagues would have him mean when he made his comment about so many Americans being bitter. And you, as someone with at least half a brain, knew precisely what he meant. But why let that get in the way of making a false argument (I'm Catholic and my brothers like guns and we're not bitter) to refute a point Obama didn't make in the first place. Obama's been consistent in his message from the start of his campaign. Can't you and your colleagues please stop trying to make the message and instead get back to the job of reporting it?

So, for your tired writing style and your intellectually dishonest coverage of Obama, we just wanted you to know that Yer An Asshole.