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Feb112011
Oops! NYT's Maureen Dowd denied access to CPAC blogger lounge
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 8:00PM
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was denied access to CPAC's Freedomworks Blogger Lounge this evening.
And, she wasn't happy.
"Do you have any idea who I am?" she asked.
Apparently, they didn't. And, she didn't have the correct credentials -- like Glittarazzi did. (Just sayin'.)
It's OK, Maureen. I am sure we'll be banned from something at some point -- but, dang, this illy coffee we're sipping in the blogger lounge sure is tasty.
Maureen -- who has been a columnist on the NYT Op-Ed page since 1995 and served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau eight years prior -- won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.
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Reader Comments (10)
I'm sorry but this isn't exactly how it happened - I tried to find your email!
Maureen was trying to rush past us to the balcony to hear Michele Bachmann's speech. We'd been bombarded with bloggers all morning with improper credentials and I was overwhelmed by the tons of people I sort-of recognized. I knew I'd seen Maureen before but just couldn't place her. As I held up my hand to stop her from entering she said "I'm Maureen Dowd." And yes, we all knew who she was. I asked "oh, are you a blogger? This is the blog lounge... I can't let you in."
Hey Lyndsey, no need to apologize, you did the right thing! Sod these Old Media dinosaurs and their aristocratic pretensions, anyway. ;)
Lyndsey, you're still the douche that blocked a Pulitzer winner and New York Times veteran from covering CPAC. If you're in charge of running a press area of any type...you should probably be fired.
Except it wasn't a press area, it was a blogger lounge - for credentialed bloggers. She was more than welcome to find the proper media area and we even directed her to it. But thanks for playing.
I heard about this from my com padres on FTRradio.com that were broadcasting live on Bloggers row at CPAC. Seems like a missed opportunity to have some of the best and brightest hardworking people in the conservative movement to take on one of America's greatest fiction writers.
Ok, I think we've carried this animosity a bit too far here. Let's let discretion be the better part of valor, you know, Shakespeare dude, Henry IV!!!
"Lyndsey, you're still the douche that blocked a Pulitzer winner and New York Times veteran from covering CPAC. If you're in charge of running a press area of any type...you should probably be fired."
coming from a RealJournalist I find the douche comment enlightening - using a verb in place of a noun. no matter. its their party - since when does a pulitzer prize mean anything? really? Mo is nothing more than a discount Dorothy Parker wannabe.
i think his or her name should be RealJournolist instead. Calling someone a "douche" makes you one, too.
Let's face it -- she looks like Ariana Huffington and you sure wouldn't want to let HER it!
Let Dowd ,Huffington and Olberman in at the same time. What in the hell do any rational thinking conservatives have to fear with them? Some of the bloggers in that room would have torn up those like Dowd and her ilk.
Missed opportunity it seems.