Sometimes you just have to love the ultra-serious folks over at Media Matters. It seems they took some time out to conduct a little study of Maureen Dowd's columns over since the beginning of 2007 and lo and behold verified the obvious discovered that MoDo, gasp, "repeatedly uses gender to mock Democrats," (also, Fox News may not be as "fair and balanced" as they'd have you believe).

Dowd has frequently characterized this election cycle's leading Democratic candidates...using gendered language, specifically characterizing Clinton as masculine, and Obama and Edwards as feminine...[Dowd]often portrays the New York senator and former first lady as domineering, having called her "Mommie Dearest" and "Mistress Hillary." Dowd also often compares Obama to a child, calling him "boy wonder" and "the Chicago kid."