Comments on: Maureen Dowd is a Plagiarist and a Liar http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2009/05/maureen_dowd_is_a_plagiarist_and_a_liar/?source=rss current events, culture, faith, science and more Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:21:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jerry Doodle http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2009/05/maureen_dowd_is_a_plagiarist_and_a_liar/comment-page-1/#comment-22418 Jerry Doodle Mon, 18 May 2009 19:53:33 +0000 http://www.intheagora.com/?p=3998#comment-22418 <i> ...If she were a conservative, however, she’d have been out the door already.</i> That's just the kind of nonsense that still sends the hand wringers over at the NY Times into a tizzy. 30 years on and those simps <i>still</i> haven't figured out the game plan. Anyway, we all know the Times is already too sensitive to criticism from people like you (a claim which is considered laughable to actual liberals), so there's no way the op-ed page editor would hold Dowd and Kristoff to different standards than Brooks or Douthat. …If she were a conservative, however, she’d have been out the door already.

That’s just the kind of nonsense that still sends the hand wringers over at the NY Times into a tizzy. 30 years on and those simps still haven’t figured out the game plan. Anyway, we all know the Times is already too sensitive to criticism from people like you (a claim which is considered laughable to actual liberals), so there’s no way the op-ed page editor would hold Dowd and Kristoff to different standards than Brooks or Douthat.

]]> By: Eric Seymour http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2009/05/maureen_dowd_is_a_plagiarist_and_a_liar/comment-page-1/#comment-22417 Eric Seymour Mon, 18 May 2009 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.intheagora.com/?p=3998#comment-22417 It's conceivable that by "talking" she meant emailing, and that her "friend" copy-pasted the section without attribution, and that she then copy-pasted her friend (again, without acknowledgement). But that's really straining it. I doubt Dowd will get the axe from the NYT. They'll probably call it a "minor oversight." If she were a conservative, however, she'd have been out the door already. It’s conceivable that by “talking” she meant emailing, and that her “friend” copy-pasted the section without attribution, and that she then copy-pasted her friend (again, without acknowledgement). But that’s really straining it. I doubt Dowd will get the axe from the NYT. They’ll probably call it a “minor oversight.” If she were a conservative, however, she’d have been out the door already.

]]> By: Jerry Doodle http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2009/05/maureen_dowd_is_a_plagiarist_and_a_liar/comment-page-1/#comment-22415 Jerry Doodle Mon, 18 May 2009 18:27:21 +0000 http://www.intheagora.com/?p=3998#comment-22415 She has to say that, because journalists (and I assume that includes people who write on the op ed page) get <a href="http://catalog.freedomforum.org/FFLib/JournalistScandals.htm" rel="nofollow">fired</a> for plagiarizing. She's probably a goner, but you never know with the Times. She has to say that, because journalists (and I assume that includes people who write on the op ed page) get fired for plagiarizing. She’s probably a goner, but you never know with the Times.

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