By Patrick on October 15, 2007 10:49 AM
Okay, okay: So Maureen Dowd’s column this weekend — written by Stephen Colbert – was very funny (the Colbert portion, at least).
But we have to ask: Why didn’t the New York Times just have Colbert write his own op-ed (since, as it is, his “Dowd op-ed” made up 710 of the column’s 865 words)?

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