dowdification

The omission of a word or a phrase in order to reframe a quote and alter its meaning.
This is usually done to help an author portray a particular viewpoint and is very common amongst weblogs.
The term is named after the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

Her dowdification seriously mischaracterized his statement

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dowdification

see "dowding"
see "Fallujah" as well.

Maureen Dowd! What a liberal twit!

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