Maureen Dowd Caught Plagiarizing?

If a Liberal Tells a Whopper Lie But Nobody Reports It, Is It Still a Lie?

HAHA I love how you wrote "current(pretend) administration" what a joke. So the standard is now...if you didn't personally vote for the President then its a "pretend" administration. So if any election doesn't turn out the way you want you then blubber about it and act as though it didn't happen. Well guess what it happened...get over it you baby! This is the same thing Republicans told blubbering Democrats after the previous TWO general elections. But now the shoe is on the other foot and "It's Different" Isn't it ALWAYS different when it doesn't go your way??? WAAAHHHH.

Surprised, Shouldn't be, under the present (pretend) admistration, mean spirited liberal journalists think they can get away with anything. It is only going to get worse and they will be given a pass. Can imagine the liberal outrage if she were consrvative? But, that is just the infamous liberal double standard kicking in.
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most of us plagiarize (spelling) in one form the other.

The subject is always ignored by the Pukes. The subject is the lies that Cheney and his minions used to get support for the horrible mistake that was the attack on Iraq. Millions killed, millions now refugees, and over 4000 US servicemen dead and countless others ruined for the rest of their lives, maimed, or lost their families or serious mental problesm! This is the real subject, not Maureen Dowd!

Dowd must be taking pointers from pelosi! When you have a personal vendetta against someone, you tend to do what ever to prove you're point. These Bush haters just can't stop! He will get the last laugh, if we are around to see it. If I ran the show I would send anyone who is so concerned with how the terrorists are treated to live with them. man would that be awesome. they defend men who hate women, I just don't get it. The Rosies,pelosis and dowds. maybe they are turned on by being shit on! but it don't matter. America see's the truth eventually!

As a writer, I say this kind of "plaigarism" story simply distracts from
the issue Dowd was exploring. The fact is that writers - especially well-known writers - have voluminous correspondents from everywhere who comment on current issues. One of those emails contains the seed of a thought: so Dowd cut-and-pastes a fragment into notes for a future editorial, which she completes at a later date, not realizing that "too many" of the words are the same as her source's. Thus, an idea which has had MUCH public currency, for several years, then comes out with "too many" of the original words, and the writer is accused of "plaigarism." ANY writer can see how easily - and innocently - this could
happen. Let's examine the ideas honestly, instead of attacking their authors.

If the conservatives can’t find something to bark about they seem to pick on one person's error... Just like Chaney, this review suffers from the typical conservative brain aneurism ...selecting one bad apple to insinuate the rest of the barrel is also bad...interesting behavioral syndrome... That’s too bad as I think Dowd was wrong but I didn’t read her error in judgment as being reflective of the entire Democratic Party.. But nevertheless the reviewer typifies, in a most brilliant and illustrative manner the typical conservative dribble ...lets jump on liberals. hahahaha I guess the conservatives will also say that Bush really did try rto find Osama bin Laden. hahahahaha and it was the liberals who made it difficult. Hahahaha. With all of the technology, tacking capability and earth penetrating devices in the military today does anyone seriously believe Bush couldn’t find this man nor did Bush avoid capture as it would perpetuate an excuse for a war..??? Is the average US citizen actually that ignorant of the US technological capabilities? Anyway... let’s see if this conservative is stupid then does one make the same assertion as the reviewer and say all conservatives are ignorant as well?? By the way this reviewer did vote for Bush the first time.

You'd be suprised at how badly MoDo is regarded amongst just about every liberal that I know. Lazy writer, queen of the shallow detail and tortured simile. I surely wouldn't shed a tear if The Times canned her, and I'm guessing that I'm WAY to the left of you.

She lifts lines from MSNBC, particularly Countdown with Keith Olbermann all the time. Most recently, she appropriated David Letterman's gag about the "creepy organ music" emanating from Cheney's "dungeon."

I find nothing surprizing about her...I put nothing past her...but the problem is calling waterboarding torture. When obama can vote to kill babies after birth as he did 3 times in Il., how is waterboarding torture in his administrtion. The world is up side down.
Kill the babies and save the terrorist.

So which is the more serious crime? Plagiarism or torture?

Should the past administration be investigated to see if there was any wrongdoing? Absolutely! Should Maureen Dowd, Nancy Pelosi and other be held accountable for there words and actions? Absolutlely. When someone says that this is minor compared to the actions they were discussing, that is missing the point. If someone is accused of a crime and there is evidence to support the accusation (with the verdict a fore gone conclusion), it still matter if witnesses come forward and lied about the accused. "That man/woman robbed the store....and I think I saw him steal a car...and hit an old woman on the head...and..and". It matters. Those who say it doesn't are no better than the people commiting the acts. As for Pelosi, she will self-destruct like Newt. Another speaker caught up in her/his own world of look I am a star! Jim Wright, where are you now?

use your time listening to Limbaugh if you want to further waste precious moments.
get a life before you are overcome with BS and negativity.

Hey Rose, you wrote...use your time listening to Limbaugh if you want to further waste precious moments.get a life before you are overcome with BS and negativity....Even though I'm not a real Rush fan, you tell me what he, O'Reilly,Hannity,Beck,etc has ever said that is B.S. or a lie. you can't. If you want to learn the TRUTH from journelists or commentators you have to listen to consevetive side of radio or TV.

Why is this such a big deal anyway? Waterboarding is really not that big a deal. It's not like what our vets dealt with in Viet Nam. I don't want it to happen to me, but I'm not plotting to commit terrorism either. If we say we will never use any information gathering tactics like this, how will we protect ourselves in the future? Who is going to get the answers that our government used to get when their hands weren't "tied behind their back" by the "Liberal" government. I would really like to know the answer to that. One other question, Who is going to pay for all of these "loans" the "Liberal" keep giving to Corporations who are lying to get them. Like GM and Chrysler promising if they get the money they won;t have to close plants and surprise surprise surprise they are closing them anyway. Now we are out the money and they are still closing. How does that work? Can we have the money back since, they obviously don't need money to close a plant?

Well, it seems that apologists like "Byron Garretson" and "mmachon" are bound to continue proving the double standard that would crucify a "conservative" writer for a single statement, then say that a "liberal" writer like Dowd is simply trying to put the "truth" out, and just made a tiny error in judgement. Just deflect the discussion away from their person, and bring up the old saws about the person from the other side, hoping to take people's attention away from the subject at hand. - And "metall2462:" the real jokes are you and the current (pretend) administration. No matter how much you apologists try to manufacture proof that doesn't exist, Obama's administration, as we ALL know (but you are afraid to admit), is not legal - your new "President" STILL refuses to show any real proof that he is a natural-born American citizen, and eligible to hold the office that his and Oprah's $750,000,000 bought! That kind of money can buy a lot of judges!

You pay for this crap lol like the other 98% of us we get it for free

your not brain dead and you are correct,i was just thinking the same thing