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More to the Maureen Dowd Plagiarism than She Admits
May 18, 2009, 11:51PM
Maureen Dowd now admits that one paragraph of her Sunday column actually comes from a blog post of Josh Marshall's (as thejoshuablog first reported at TPM cafe). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_204418.html
It turns out, though, that that's not the only thing in her column that comes from Josh. Two paragraphs above the one she has changed to be a quotation from Marshall's original post, she has a phrase that also comes straight from Josh, the description of a captured Iraqi official as "an old-fashioned P.O.W." Here is Josh at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/arc...5/bubbling.php
"(Also worth noting is that an Iraqi intelligence official captured during the invasion would, I think, very clearly be an old fashioned POW.)"
Here is Dowd in the revised online version of her column: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html
"Even though this man was an old-fashioned P.O.W., someone in Vice's orbit reportedly suggested that the interrogations were too gentle and that waterboarding might elicit information about the fantasized connection between Osama and Saddam."
Dowd's explanation for lifting the paragraph was that she had not read Josh's post but that a friend told her the line. Frankly, this does not sound very plausible. But when we add in that she used an additional very distinct phrase, in an entirely different paragraph, its plausibility disappears to the vanishing point. Or did her friend tell her that line, too?
May 18, 2009, 11:51PM
Maureen Dowd now admits that one paragraph of her Sunday column actually comes from a blog post of Josh Marshall's (as thejoshuablog first reported at TPM cafe). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_204418.html
It turns out, though, that that's not the only thing in her column that comes from Josh. Two paragraphs above the one she has changed to be a quotation from Marshall's original post, she has a phrase that also comes straight from Josh, the description of a captured Iraqi official as "an old-fashioned P.O.W." Here is Josh at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/arc...5/bubbling.php
"(Also worth noting is that an Iraqi intelligence official captured during the invasion would, I think, very clearly be an old fashioned POW.)"
Here is Dowd in the revised online version of her column: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html
"Even though this man was an old-fashioned P.O.W., someone in Vice's orbit reportedly suggested that the interrogations were too gentle and that waterboarding might elicit information about the fantasized connection between Osama and Saddam."
Dowd's explanation for lifting the paragraph was that she had not read Josh's post but that a friend told her the line. Frankly, this does not sound very plausible. But when we add in that she used an additional very distinct phrase, in an entirely different paragraph, its plausibility disappears to the vanishing point. Or did her friend tell her that line, too?
I wonder how Biden is feeling right now given her role in killing his '88 campaign over this issue.
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