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OH YEAH MAUREEN DOWD: So she had a sentence from a TPM post in her column. Her explanation: she didn’t mean to lift an unattributed quote from Josh Marshall; she meant to lift an unattributed quote from some random friend of hers, who happened to be quoting Josh Marshall, unattributedly. Whatever, this is how the Internet works, words want to be free, and everybody copies everybody else constantly. (There is no actual news anymore.) Josh Marshall seems not to be terribly offended anyhow. [thejoshuablog]
Having seen the real Dowd on the TV, is that picture 25 years old, or did it go through extremely extensive de-wrinkling photoshop?
Did her friend quote a whole paragraph practically verbatim as some sort of cocktail party trick? Compare her paragraph with Marshall’s, and it looks like basic high-school level plagiarism. And isn’t Dowd the one who had a cow over Biden quoting without attribution? Send this annoying woman to detention.
I run a left-ist snarky war-blogg called http://www.winkette.com. It makes fun of local and national politicians and has a strange attraction to Anal Sex. I certainly don’t ever VISIT wonkette.com, but I may have a friend or two who might.
It really would kill MoDo to admit she reads blogs, wouldn’t it?
Great, now she’s in the esteemed company of folks like Doris Kearns Goodwin & Mike Barnicle.
Hey, there’s only so many words. After a while, you’re bound to put them in an order that someone else has already done. I’m just sayin’.
At least, unlike DKG, she wasn’t exposed by The Weekly Standard - does it mean they don’t they read TPM?
Hey, there’s only so many words. After a while, you’re bound to put them in an order that someone else has already done. I’m just sayin’.
Texan Bulldoggette: …Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair…
JadedDIssonance: Ha! We crashed your servers, PLAGIARIST!
proudgrampa meet MisterLoki. MisterLoki meet proudgrampa.
hobospacejunkie: …and Janet Cooke! (who should have said her story was a work of fiction–not real…oops!)
yes yes this is all fine and good, but what about franco only having one testicle???
JMP: For realz. Even if that photo was shot when she was just past her peak, why was it important that readers of her opinion column know that she was a bangable boozehound who probably does anal? At least that’s my take on her expression.
hobospacejunkie: I just woke up. Now I get it.
Next thing you know she will be quoting Jim Newell quoting Keith Oberman quoting Newt Gingrich quoting…. Oh never mind.
Who cares.
Mr Blifil: You, sir, have a unique talent.
Mr Blifil: Maybe she wants people to think she’s still bangable, and that if she gets a guy drunk enough he’ll think she still looks like that? That’s about all I’ve got. Oh, and of course she’s a boozehoud; that kind of goes without saying for anyone who works for a newspaper.
King of Pants: Apathy makes baby jesus cry. Care to take that back?
Mr Blifil: Anal on the first date, that’s our MoDo!
I just love the word “inadvertant.” Esp. when it translates to “Fuck. Not only did I get caught, but I got called out and schooled.”
MisterLoki: Win!
I hate it when she talks, anyway.
She could at least now have the decency to refer to her “friend” as “imaginary”.
Hey, there’s only so many words. After a while, you’re bound to put them in an order that someone else has already done. I’m just sayin.
Hey, power to the wonkette! It wouldn’t let me cut and paste someone else’s comment from this thread. It made me delete an apostrophe. Does that mean I didn’t plagiarize? If so, modo could use that defense the next time.
Goddamned bloggers talk so much, it was bound to happen that one of them typed the same words as an actual journalist, just a few days earlier.
And all you haters step off - MoDo’s still hot, in a geriatric kind of way.
Great. Now I have to scan her column for more than vicious references to Hillary, Bill, and Al.
And Moe, if you’re reading this, I don’t mind that you’re all wrinkly and your hair is funny looking, and your voice sounds like fran dresser coming down from a meth binge. I’ll still do you.
proudgrampa: Monkeys and typewriters, monkeys and typewriters.
bobwurst: Monkeys and typewriters. I’m just sayin’
stopmebeforeitypeagain: monkeys and …. must get out of loop.
bobwurst: Without the apostrophe, it may be a completely original thought!
stopmebeforeitypeagain: What’s a typewriter?
I’d hit it?
JMP - First, didn’t Dowd write a book about not needing men?
Sounds to me that Dowd has been using the “Pelosi” form of logic to explain her FUBAR.
What a bitter, cynical, and overrated bitch.
I’d still do her.
God she sucks.
Hey, there’s only so many words. After a while, you’re bound to put them in an order that someone else has already done. I’m just sayin.Yup
Seriously, the quote wasn’t all that special. Pretty generic. It’s not like she plagiarized “It was the best of times , it was the worst of times”
It was a dark and stormy night…
That’s why more Internet sites should fill their posts with swear words and sex jokes: Then they can’t have their sentences appropriated by the newspaper people.
I don’t think Dowd should get pounded for plagiarism…but any excuse to take this useless, vacuous hack out of the print mix is a good one.
She used to be decent. Now she’s just another overpaid, underworked NYT glitterati, wasting page space on negligibly researched one-liners.
“negligibly researched one-liners” is Wonkettes department
dave666: So you’re saying she should give the Coldplay defense?
digibal235: I would, but only if Gail Collins joined us.
Red Zeppelin: No, no, no. MizzModo would like everyone to think she does pie in the sky, but then (as it were), that is what she is inadvertently advertising she is lacking.
JMP: She borrowed the pic from a friend.
Did anybody catch MSNBC this a.m. (Pacific time) referring to the late Tim Russert’s wife, Maureen Dowd? The anchor sort of choked on it but said it anyway, so I suspect it was on the ‘prompter.
I wonder who would be the most offended by that: Russert’s wife Maureen Orth, Maureen Dowd for allegedly being married to a dead man from Syracuse, or Tim Russert, who just threw up a little, in his mouth.
I call bullshit. I saw no alliterations nor references to movies shown only on the Turner Classic channel, (viewed mainly by aging spinsters in their nicotine and whiskey stained chenille bathrobes).
Why can’t she just make up sources like the respectable folks at The Important National Review? Plagiarizing real people…what a rookie move.
hobospacejunkie: No, that little fucker needs a lesson in tears.
bago: Typewriters are what monkeys — keyboarding randomly, stopping only for smokes, not plagiarizing or taking other shortcuts — use to type the works of W. Shakespeare and Josh Marshall. (You can see typewriters creating copy in old movies about real newspapers & newspaper people. Unlike Modo.)
Vegastard: It isn’t easy throwing up in your mouth when you’re dead.
We should forgive MoDo only if she agrees that from now on, her car will be adorned with a big hairy set of truck nutz.
I’d hit it.
bitchincamaro: You, sir are qualified to spot a Dowd column.