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Sex Allegations Fly in Miller-Dowd Catfight
Did New York Times doyen Maureen Dowd really call her colleague Judy Miller a "slut" during a Wednesday morning interview with radio host Don Imus? It sure sounded that way, though Dowd never used that word specifically. The New York Post's Andrea Peyser recaps the latest chapter in the Miller-Dowd donnybrook - which featured the unmistakable insinuation by Dowd that the married Miller slept her way to the top. "Judy does have a history of dating powerful men for, you know, three decades it goes back," Dowd asserted to Imus, in what Peyser described as an "obscenely personal" insult.
Story Continues Below The Times columnist ripped into Miller twice "for having a slutty reputation that Dowd claims warped her reporting," Peyser said. "Dowd has romped with TV's Aaron Sorkin and actor Michael Douglas," she noted, retaliating on Miller's behalf. Despite the uber-personal tirade, Dowd insisted to Imus that her complaint was "not about the sex." "It's about the bombs," she maintained, a reference to Miller's weapons of mass destruction reporting that media liberals now insist was entirely erroneous [Saddam's 500-ton uranium stockpile notwithstanding]. Miller has been more dignified, declining to make hay out of Dowd's highly publicized liaisons. Earlier this week she told Peyser: "I'm not going to sink to that level." Meanwhile, Miller is quietly negotiating what sounds like a less than amicable divorce from the Old Grey Lady. The New York Observer reports that exit talks revolve around three issues: "The first is how much severance Miller would receive, the second concerns whether she will be given space on the Op-Ed page to answer critics and the third is whether the Times and Miller will issue a joint statement defining the terms of her departure."
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