Spinsanity smacks the bejesus out of Maureen Dowd:

An outrageous new falsehood is circulating about President Bush. Last week, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd misrepresented a Bush statement to imply that he said the Al Qaeda terrorist network is "not a problem anymore," and the distorted quotation has since been repeated by MSNBC "Buchanan and Press" co-host Bill Press, CNN's Miles O'Brien and others, including numerous foreign press outlets. At a time when the New York Times is under fire for its conduct in the Jayson Blair scandal, Dowd's creation of an exploding media myth is cause for serious concern.

Dowd pulled a fast one today:

Update (5/28 12:19 PM): Dowd presents the full quote today in her column in an accurate context. Also, New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets reports that he sent in her original, distorted quotation to the Times and that spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said the paper is "looking into" the matter.

The Times is imploding daily.