After editing her own racial slur into Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s joint-session health-care speech, and accusing anyone who opposes Obama of racism, she now plaintively pines the loss of civility in American society. What cheek:

Clyburn won the manners round, but Wilson was back Tuesday night tweeting his rude new fans, people who, as the minority leader, John Boehner, put it, are “scared to death that the country that they grew up in is not going to be the country that their kids and grandkids grew up in.”

It’s not. That country is gone. And in terms of biases that have faded, that’s a good thing. But partly due to the Internet, the standards of behavior in this new country are terrible.

Dowd, like the publication she writes for, are moving rapidly toward irrelevance.