Highbrow hussies unite

Sen. Zell Miller (D?-GA) on NYT columnist Maureen Dowd:

'The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on 'Meet the Press' and writes those columns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don't want some high brow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they're idiots and telling them that they're stupid.'

Now, I am not the biggest Maureen Dowd fan either. I think her writing is usually crushed beneath the weight of its own wit. However, she gives as good as she gets, and I respect that:

"Dowd responds: 'I'm not a highbrow hussy from New York. I'm a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords?' "--NY Post, via WP's Howard Kurtz