In the print version of Maureen Dowd’s latest column:

Even though Obama stopped smoking when he started running for president, he has lost five pounds racing around the country. Just like Hollywood starlets, he works out religiously and he can make a three-course meal out of a Nicorette.

But online that starlet-and-Nicorette business has been scrubbed, sent down the memory hole:

But he has moved up to heavyweight, even while losing five pounds as he has raced around the country.

Did somebody complain about the smoking business? The Nicorette? Comparing Obama (she also calls him “Obambi”) to a starved starlet?

Seriously, who do you have to lean on–and how hard–to get a paragraph taken out of a Times op-ed column?