Whoops

by dday

We all know that Maureen Dowd has been writing one story over and over again for the last decade – Democrats are feminized losers – so I suppose that her blatant plagiarism of Josh Marshall represents an attempt at being original.

“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html?_r=1

“More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/05/bubbling.php

I welcome her efforts to branch out (she actually calls for a full investigation of the torture regime in this op-ed). If she wrote it, we’d actually have a decent column here, aside from the Dowd-esque characterization of Nancy Pelosi as a “stammering child.” Anyway, if you’re going to steal, you could do worse than Josh Marshall. It would be fun to see Dowd behind a phalanx of flags answering questions about this incident, surely in the manner of a stammering child herself. But of course that would assume a certain level of media accountability.

…OK, so MoDo admitted this, but in the typical journalist “I don’t even read blogs” kind of way. She claims that a friend told her the line, somehow with exactly the same 42 words. Can I call her stories not credible and her pathetic attempts to explain herself akin to a “stammering child,” now?

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