A type of
disinformation where an exact quote is pulled from within a
statement and presented as whole without
the original context to mislead an audience. Named for media worker Maureen Dowd who has been caught doing this.
After
President Bush said, "Have I made
mistakes, no I haven't", Maureen Dowd wrote, "I
heard it myself, Bush said, and I qoute, 'I made mistakes'" as a Dowdism.