Twitter, why are you so mean? Poor Maureen. The NYT is broken. pic.twitter.com/sfEvr1OsvM — Tom Watson (@tomwatson) August 8, 2020 She forgot about 2016. For the New York Times, times are lean. They need more fact-checkers to run their machine. 4 years. It’s been 4 years. Only the dynamic duo of Maureen Dowd and the NYT could erase the last election, where a woman got more votes than not only the other guy, but more votes than nearly anyone in the history of American elections.