Before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know rising to the occasion of. Host maureen dowd most recent book is called the year of voting dangerously. , us president s have you covered you know . Guest well, i covered the very tail end of reagan when he wa