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Dowd

Used as a verb, this is used to used to indicate the possibly deliberate mangling of an attributed quote in a newspaper column or article. As in "Krugman Dowded that line from Alan Greenspan." Named after that ever popular target of the blogsphere, Maureen Dowd.

See also MoDo, MoDo Principle and MSM.

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