Dowd was a "nasty, snarky person" with a "twisted, bitter little heart."Karl, come on, get real, "snarky" is what MoDo gets paid the big bucks to do. She fills exactly the same niche on the left side of the aisle that Ann Coulter fills on the right side. True, Coulter usually manages to include some solid fact in her character assassinations but the role is the same: be snarky about the other guys.
We on the right enjoy Ann and the folks on the left enjoy MoDo, maybe we shouldn't but we do. If there is a character flaw here, it is in the audience: us.