Dowd Dumped From Straight Talk Express

Times scribe banned after Palin diss; stranded in Pittsburgh
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 2, 2008 10:03 AM CDT
Dowd Dumped From Straight Talk Express
"New York Times" columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of "Meet the Press"' at the NBC studios in Washington earlier this year.   (Getty Images)

Straight talk not only got New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd banned from the McCain-Palin campaign planes, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it got her marooned in Pittsburgh. After writing a scathing satire of Sarah Palin's candidacy—harsh but hardly unprecedented for the gleefully snarky writer—a stunned Dowd was left behind in the middle of a campaign swing, forcing her to overnight in a local hotel while the rest of the press pack traveled on.
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